I will do my homework on long distance REI (even tho the markets are 1-2 hours away), but have a couple questions- What are some of your key metrics/signs you use when identifying a new market?

Eventually there should be quite a bit of distance between net income in the mortgage. 

I live 800 miles from my property and I need to furnish it soon. How do I go about ordering furniture online in a way that all the furniture arrives on the same day? If I order from different websites then I’m assumin...

I hope that they listened to what I said - one recent person who is house hacking decided to look within a 2 hour driving distance instead of buying over a 1000 miles away. 

One more reason why long-distance management is a bad idea.

I am also long distance, and would have to pay someone to show the house.  

In that situation I purchased a SF property 4 hours away from me this year as a fix-n-flip and to test the hypothesis that long distance fix-n-flips could be viable investments. 

Hey Sushil, don't let distance stop you from building wealth.

It was written before the days of YouTube, so it's not full of the common nonsense where authors sell a course, send you to their website for downloads, or write a follow-up with additional "secrets" they forgot to put in the first book.Long-Distance Real Estate Investing by David Greene was another good one.

Then determine if a long distance property is better or a local house hack.