AS a HML I have seen this play out with investors that drink the sub too coolaid and are simply not financially capable to handle issues when things go sideways.I have also personally bought over 100 sub to deals in my career..

I was personally censored multiple times by one of the most well-known BP employees simply because her opinions are very leftist and mine are very correct. ;) The bottom line: it's their website and they pull the strings.

Federal land in the middle of nowhere does not solve the crisis, crisis can be solved by smarter planning, better use of land and getting politicians to cut through the red tape where costs to develop are astronomical. 

While this doesn’t cut out the middleman completely, you can find excellent investment opportunities for flipping houses at a much better price than you’ll find on public real estate markets.

If not, buying something random and making one trip there for the inspection isn't going to cut it, and will not protect you from buying a bad deal.Can you pick a market within a couple hours of you instead?  

Do i take a snapshot photo of my outgoing phone call to the GC or can I simply summarize in the log that I had the 1 hour conversation with the GC and summarize the details of the conversation? 

Hey Karl, @Karl SzymanskiI can definitely understand the temptation to do something close to home, but it likely will depend on whether you are planning to manage these properties yourself (which I personally, wouldn't since you are simply just buying yourself a new job) and where the best forecasted ROI is at. 

You may also be able to simply QCD the property in your LLC but you run the risk of the current lender calling the note due because of the transfer. 

And what I mean by that is that I would take a house that needed 30k in rehab and cut the rehab budget down to 20k and leave the old windows. 

The tenant pool is definitely cut to a fraction and many applicants you can find all have different lease time frames.