You have a freelance job and you can qualify as REP I sharing this from my personal experience.

.: I’m looking at a property that checks all the boxes—good numbers and fits my buy box—but I haven’t seen it in person.

During the slow season, do you personally focus on getting more rentals, focus more on family/personal life, or do you do something else?

Haven’t used it personally but a good friend of mine who self manages around 20 doors uses it and swears by it. 

I have a salt water hot tub at my personal home.

The Retainer Fee is credited towards whatever they buy from us in the 90 days, so in effect, costs them nothing.Note: we're not doing this to make money, but to avoid the time-wasters.

What appears to be great "curb appeal" to one person might be overwhelming to another. 

BTW there is a free trial and the Starter monthly plan is $119.It also allows you to search through consumer information such as property owner "credit worthiness," Credit card usage, buying power, age, language, family members in the house, and many other fields that are above and beyond property characteristics, which is unique.

A line of credit won’t commit you to a monthly payment unless you use the money, so you can avoid paying interest when it’s not in use.

We have done it both ways where we fund purchase and they cover rehab but if the individual is less experienced we do not do it that way, we have them put more money into the deal from the start and fund the draws, reason why is we also had a deal where the person said they would do this and never did anything and property sat and loan matured and it was a pain.Just recognize you will still not get 100% financing for the purchase, so you are putting money in up front.