In exchange, I’d be able to be sort of an intern or someone to help with boots on the ground here in AZ.  

I will add that out of my STR's, this is the worst performing so if you can't stomach slow months this may not be the market for you. 

Austin, avoid this company at any cost.Do not buy anything from them, it's the worst turn key provider I've dealt with.

Buy or inherit and hold all their lives while working the properties for income.I've seen teachers, firemen, software engineers and all sorts of people utilize both strategies successfully.

A young guy with no construction experience....worst Home Inspector ever.

Their main goal is maintaining wealth not creating it, so they are diversifying through all sorts of different investments. 8% returns are on the high side.  

Then start going after some off market properties, pay cash, renovate it, re-fi out keeping just enough to make it a 1.1-1.2 or at worst 1.0 DSCR, do it again.

Thomas Tusser 1557This company purported to flip urban Baltimore row houses. from the article above, one investor bought 2500 Hollins street west baltimore for 20k, then spent 20.5k for rehab, a simple Google street view search shows it to be abandoned row houses in worst neighborhood of highest crime city in America.

If three days go by and they don't respond, you should be ready for the worst. 2) If you can get ahold of them, but there is "paperwork" that is causing delays for more than a week, I'd get on a plane, and go visit them.

As an example, you may have a property that one of those systems says has a "value" of X (let's say $500K), and they have all sorts of nearby "comps" that are in the same value range.