We do have some investors that mainly buy TK as a means to easily scale & diversify their portfolio across multiple cash flow markets where they don't have their own team established, or don't want to take the time, risk & money it requires to build their own team in a new market! 

Your “overhead” costs to buy & sell the house + holding costs, interest, property taxes etc, luckily these can be pretty easily calculated, many websites like closing companies will have websites where you can fill out information about a property and it will tell you the costs to buy & sell, loan costs are easily calculable, take your purchase multiply by intrest rate divide by 12, that’s your monthly expenses multiply by the number of months you project the to complete, a good rule of thumb is even cosmetic can easily be 6 months anything more complicated can be 9-12 though all that can very greatly.3.

The negative cashflow should not be a big problem for me since I can easily fund it.

The way I (and many others) see data is that it helps make more informed diDemographics: Identify market segments & trends.GDP & Economic Growth: County-level GDP changes to assess economic vitality.Poverty Metrics: Analyze economic challenges.Construction Activity: Easily predict market supply.Occupational Diversity: Forecast housing & commercial needs.Education Insights: Understand community stability.Real Estate Trends: Identify property value & rental cycles.and there is so much more to consider.

Willing to pay for functionality that let's me do this on my iPhone quickly and easily.  

There’s a big difference between disagreeing with someone’s methods, promises, and forecasts, and detecting actual fraud.I’m not sure that for many of the gurus we call out that fraud is so easily detected, let alone proved.  

Define, "investor-friendly" agent please.In our experience we've found that +95% of agents only have experience dealing with owner-occupied transactions - which are mostly EMOTIONAL decision based.You can ID these types of agents easily by asking them:1) If they are RE investors themselves.

I’m concerned that contractors out of state could easily take advantage of you never being on site to keep the contractors accountable 

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

It is inexpensive and you would easily make the money back by picking up more clients.