The long distant landlord or flips didn't work out for me in the past.

When an opportunity comes your way, you don't have to beg a lender for funds or give up a percentage to a partner.Find someone who is doing what you want to do, someone who has a successful investing record and a sweet net worth, a mentor (local or long distant), pay him or her for targeted training.You may want to keep it simple, set a small short range goal; work on creating $10,000 per deal without ownership.

If you require promises, let me tell you about a distant acquaintance.

But likely being distant, I'd have to heavily rely on a property management company for just a single property (unless I also rent my current home).Thanks in advance. 

Another good one is to avoid investing with close family members lest they turn into distant family members.

The real estate market there is enticing because there is a lot of inventory and properties are selling, but since I know very little, is it smart to depend on a realtor that is a distant relative, and doesn't work with investors very often?

Particularly if I'm looking for appreciation without as much risk as a distant market I don't know and having to deal with property management from afar.

I'm a bean counter too, but not a tax guy, but my comments have to do with a local accountant vs. one in a distant land.....LOLIf you have a copier, fax, scanner and computer, I don't see why you can't have an advisor/accountant far away.

It's a math equation and a business decision FIRST, your residency preference is a distant second!

I found GA REIA had more training with expert instructors and face to face time with other beginners through experts.I've spent thousands on training weekends and materials as well as 1/4 of my weekends used to be spent in some local or distant training course...