As you begin you REI journey here is a piece of advicecheck out this website for a great over view of a city https://www.areavibes.com/This website gives you a total livability score and you can see things like crime rate, housing, walking score and more.Best of luck!

Feel free to reach out to me or send me an email I can walk you through the basics and go over what is required and what to avoid.

Does it look like a modern-ish apartment with breezeways and internal stairs, or is it built like a roadside motel with long walk ways along the front.  

The best thing you can do is to get in touch with a few lenders and walk through your specific scenario. 

Collecting rent rolls, walking properties, learning who's doing the best in our sector/niche and how they're doing it, finding partners, all of these things I'm fairly good at, as I've been doing this for my recruiting agency for the past 3 years.

We walked it.

If things go south, how would you both be able to walk away?

Apparently they assist walking you through finding deals, financing them/obtaining business credit, and closing the deal...

Don't forget, you’re going to be out 10%+ in closing costs so you’ll walk with zero cash and pin your hopes on them paying you 20-30 years from now if that’s all they put down. 

If you actually can, then "put your money where your mouth is" and I'd only expect to pay you a percentage of what you could actually save me.3) Property Tours: not sure who much value you could add to #2 above if you didn't walk thru a property?