@Dave FosterI really appreciate you and @Alina Trigub in taking the time to share your knowledge. 

You can make money doing long distance flips but it is not as easy as the posts you see online would lead you to believe.Personally, I would try to make it out to the area you are looking at investing in.  Take

My thought on a situation like that is checking the fresh-air intake, and the exhaust, to see if your getting a cross breeze too strong that's blowing out pilot.

You need to go through the due diligence of a full assignment and deed of trust even in taking only part of the payments.

Dont be shy in taking your cut of the deal.

By offering my services I just want to be able to intake as much information as I can from people already doing what I am interested in so I can gain the confidence I need to do it myself.

The original plan was to 100% self fund the equity for the project, but if a high-quality GC is interested in taking on the project, I'm willing to open up the investment opportunity.The project involves infill development and ground-up construction of for-sale townhomes.  

First I would like to thank you so very much in taking the time out to write such a detailed response.

I am interested in taking my real estate investment portfolio to the next level.

I've done a lot of research on different types of investing, and am now interesting in taking it more seriously.