I’ve been doing quite a bit of research about what lenders would require and the various aspects of bank loans versus agency loans.

If you can debt ratio and don't have more than 20% declining from the previous year, you should be good on that aspect of the loan.If not, you can do an Investor Cash Flow loan where no income or employment is listed on the loan application and the only requirement is that the property rents for the same or more than the PITI payment of the mortgage?

@Jonathan R McLaughlin Thank you for such a detailed response, and very good point about the not apologizing aspect.

Free Advice: Create two LLC's one for flipping and one for your passive as this will prevent domino effect if one aspect fails and make sure you setup proper firewalls to prevent commingling funds. 

The PM can make or break you--being remote, you will basically be at their mercy to deal with problematic tenants, find tenants and keep vacancy low, collect your money, find contractors... in short, every aspect of actually running the business. 

Relationships, to me, are the most important aspect in real estate and building strong relationships can exponentially grow your real estate business. 

There could also be a fair housing aspect.

Then I started hiring mentors for different aspects of my investments.

She clearly knows every aspect of her business well. 

Another great aspect is that you can insure occupied and vacant on the same package. - Casey