I'd ultimately like to make $600-$1,000 per month in cash-flow.Since housing tends to be pretty expensive in my area, I don't know if I want to focus on buying properties here (as a beginner), or expand to long-distance investing.Some suggestions / advice here would be greatly appreciated.As mentioned, I am brand new to all of this! 

My first home purchase was a brand new townhome.

Its a completely remolded house with brand new ac/heater/furnace and 10-year roof.

No need to reinvent the wheel.With that being said, Samsung isn't a brand I consider for a high end remodel.

Of course if you use turnkey your return is lower but you get basically a brand new house and spend less time.

They see median home prices running $600K or so, and those are influenced by all these cool developers ripping out the old and put up brand new crazy-gorgeous glamorous homes -- literally million dollar homes in some cases.There are several houses in that area, very similar, same everything, that have been fixed up (in their current size and floor plan configuration) and flipped for around $285K or so. 

I think most would agree that using an email address + bank is a reasonable expectation for pretty much any transaction in 2018, much less one with such a high value.I suggest that you should seriously consider either forcing the tenant to adapt to your online management (given that you aren't asking doing anything unreasonable with the rest of your tenants which I presume you aren't) or increase their rent as you see fit to pay for whatever inconveniences you're taking on to accommodate the tenant.You may have inherited the tenant in this "state", but unless some agreement was written into the lease prior, I personally wouldn't see that to be enough reason for you to go through so much trouble.With that being said, I believe 100% in going above and beyond for my tenants and if you feel that this is makes sense for maintaining the brand of your landlord business, I say go for it and good luck!

In fact, due to the lack of parking in NYC, people who rent his garages own brand new cars, by don't commute to work in it, they all take the subway.

Brand new to this REI as I have only 1 unit.

Bought the house brand new in 15 with the intent to live but moved.