While the world embraces tech tools to automate workflows and tasks, reduce errors, and thereby increasing precision, the Appraiser is basically doing the same thing they did 80+ years ago.  

My feeling is that a lot of companies are going to think more critically about embracing employees working from home, both from the ability to reduce overhead in rent/lease costs, but also because employees are going to become more efficient doing such. 

LOL.I wonder often if newer generations will resists tech or will embrace it like my generation has.

This can inform how much equity you provide in return2) Partnerships are a big part of most of the success stories on BP so embracing that mentality early can enable accelerated scale3) I like arrangements where incentives are aligned so it’s a positive that your GC cares about the project outcome and value created as much as you do4) With 4 kids and a full time job you may want to include some passive investing via syndicates in your strategy.  

Embrace it.

It’s a tough lesson of authenticity but I fully embrace it and glad it happened.

Once you embrace it, it's an excellent way to go.

Thank you for the advise, will embrace and follow it. 

That said, before I read 100 more books and get lost in all the different potential strategies I could use, I figured it would be wise to preemptively introduce myself to the bigger pockets community, and see if the people I meet and connections I make incline me to embrace a certain strategy or influence my perspective on this potential investment.Based on my limited research, I believe BRRRR investing/Buy and Holding of rental properties is the strategy that suits my vision.

Suck it up, embrace the reality that your niece is going to cost you some money, and get moving!