When you raise, you might fix a few items in the unit/house or perhaps offer a new digital amenity if available.

Many of the cities on your list are in the Southeast, which is perfect if you want to bet on appreciation but not that great if you want a steady cash flow, if your goal is to generate some passive income target the midwest, and stick to solid suburban B areas, don't make the same mistake as many other OOS investors did chasing high double-digit returns in C-D areas, these returns only exist on paper. 

Are meet-ups in person or only digital?  

Double digit rates and points. 

lol)2) We would love to network with folks both within NJ and out of state as there is so many golden nuggets listening to other people's RE experience (also if our newbie experience allows us, also help where we can lol)3) We both work W-2 jobs within financial services focusing on digital transformations (to be synergistic with our goals, we also got our RE license this year!)

Your first impression with a buyer is now digital and a great visual representation is crucial to marketing your property. 

Less currency risk and conversion costs.

The process also left me with tons of questions - mainly about why in todays digital age can literally every document for a property purchase be digital except for the closing documents?

The rise of the internet permits the use of new types of nonfinancial customer data, such as browsing histories and online shopping behavior of individuals, or customer ratings for online vendors.”Currently, those hoping to take out a loan can expect to have their repayment and credit history length, as well as total debt checked, but going forward, the IMF study suggests, this will be expanded to include what’s known as people’s digital footprint – either collected from data already publicly available, or that obtained by credit bureaus.The stated goal is to improve “loan default predictions” – and the upcoming trend is sold as a way to give access to money to people who have previously been unable to use loans because their status is “unscorable.”

You can Google some editing sites and they can edit 10-15 a pic, and digitally stage for another 15.