The key with any partnership is well defined entrance and exit rules. 

Well, yes, some properties may require complete work, but others may just need cosmetic things to bring them back on the market.

I have another rental a few streets away that has done very well.

Vanguard and Blackstone have a lot of interest here as well. 

There is well developed  case law that points to a guarantor having to receive a benefit in order for the lender to hold them accountable in the event of a default etc.

There's micro neighborhoods that do very well, even in a macro declining population.

A tenant living in a 100 year old called board of health for drafting windows (never called us first) and BOH made us replace them within 30 days, well custom windows take longer than that to make so we got fined.

I started out with a great cleaning company that did great work but the owner and I were not a good fit, they cleaned well but she didn't like my over communication. 5.) 

Well, not so fast.For every successful flip, there is an account of some nightmare project that sucked the bank account of someone dry.

Additionally, I am also open to the Tobyhanna and Strausberg area as well.