You'll be able to get your hands on hundreds of email addresses in one swoop.

Depending on your market do you have a few hundred thousand for flips?  

I'm a little jealous, I want a couple hundred units for myself one day.

I've helped hundreds of clients invest passively in a dozen or so markets here in the southern/middle part of the country.

However, when you search the internet, you find hundreds of posts and documentation talking about investors being so successful with it, big ones and small.

I know that in general, you have to spend money to make money and wanted to have a chance at starting buy-and-hold real estate before I start making "real money" as an attending physician in SIX YEARS... 3.5K seems like a lot when you're already hundreds of thousands in debt, have kids, and are creatively paying down a mortgage in CA.

The lower end flips are easy to design and source material, mostly cheap RTA Shaker cabinets, LVP, etc.  

I've read a few hundred appraisals in PHX Metro and sometimes you'll get away with not having the AC vent or closet but they're looking for it to be done in a professional manor as you stated. 

I personally have done this, and so are hundreds of my clients.

Pretty sure Rent to Retirement has hundreds of 5 star reviews.