Researched the area , contacted local team through biggerpockets How did you finance this deal?

No 'press 1 to talk to our sales team, press 2 to...' sort of thing. 

I bet you learned A LOT.You can also leverage my team to help you out next time.

Fannie is now also requiring the GP team to have significant skin in the game. 

See below:Survey (8-10 weeks) Request Permit Prints from Design Team (4-6 weeks) Site Plan and Septic Design from Design Engineers. (6-8 weeks) Need survey back to start designs as this is site specific Energy Docs (1-2 weeks) Need plans from Design Team to make request.

Now we have a full leadership team handling various roles. 

A solid property management team (or maybe multiple PMs if your portfolio is large enough) is a must for out of state investing.

I am also a local Realtor for an amazing investor focused realty team that helps our investors from start to finish and beyond with their investment properties.

So basically, get an attorney to put my contracts together as the first step, reviewing them with a title agency as the second step, putting the other team members together as the third step, and starting the search for borrowers as the fourth?

Our team buys the properties and converts them and manages them so it has been a great learning experience seeing all three phases from taking down a project, renovating the building then managing the lease up.