If you were bullish on the area and planned on having 3 or 4, then management would make sense, but buying a first property far away only to have some random company manage it, and add on MTR which is not as complicated as STR, but still more uptake is a tall order.

Do random handyman jobs for people.

Then you have to understand MOTIVATED seller leads generation.Once you do, you will soon realize that it is not possible to target motivated sellers.Anything based on a list is not even random, it is worse than random.Fact 1:I rank #1 on Google for my market and thus I get a ton of organic actually and truly motivated seller leads.I rarely get foreclosures, absentee owners, probates, tax liens, divorces etc.

Jack,since you run Gelt and do private lending, think of being in first position on a loan with a private lender and that lender just randomly assigns the loan to someone else without advising you.

I work random jobs and/or travel May-November. 

-is it a good time for a person with no savings and no experience to take out a HELOC or personal loan and buy a random property in a state they've never been to using 100% leverage because made up spreadsheet math assumes no vacancy or capex or repairs ever and rent growth of 9.2% a year until 2074? 

But after a few years, I got really sick of being kept up late, dirty dishes always in the sink, having random girlfriends or other people come through the house, A/C running colder than I'd like, etc.In hindsight I wish I was more organized like you were.

Dont want to make a mistake that it might be someone random pretending to own the company.

Good investments don't get spammed to random strangers on the internet.My barber doesn't stand on the side of the street and tell everyone who walks by they need to get a bowl cut. 

I called a random locksmith and I was quated 200 + taxes.