Ive invested in the Boston & DC markets for 22 years now.

If the use of the funds are for business purposes, like investing in real-estate, you will have an easier chance of qualifying for a loan documentation and income wise.

From what I see, there are people who invest in different real estate markets all over the country.

.: I invested in one of their projects and it seems to be failing.

I am stating out with wholesaling and once I raise enough funds will be investing in rental properties and flips.

I would still set aside money for renovations that are need based if you do that and use the rest to invest.

Plus new folks do a very poor job of screening the buyer for Ability To Repay (ATR) which involves pulling full doc and calculating the borrowers DTI, honest income, honest debt payments, prior debt payment histor (FICO) etc etc.Plus shockingly (or shocking to sellers) if you bought this investment house, fixed it, then are selling with financing you are selling "inventory" and y9ou owe taxes on the gain in the year of sale, you are NOT able to use installment sale to spread out paying taxes. 

The best protection for you and your investments?

For context, I'm from Edmonton, and have been in investing in Alberta for last 11 years, and in Texas the last 1.5 years.

Any type of investment real estate anywhere in the US can be sold and replaced by any other type of investment real estate of any number of properties anywhere in the US.Washington to CA is perfectly fine.