The biggest investment you will make in real estate is your education.

The single biggest issue in my way currently is obtaining enough cash, whether it be my own, or through partnerships or family/friend-based lending (which I am very hesitant about to begin with as this could potentially strain relationships unnecessarily when money is involved).

Finding a reliable contractor for the rehab portion and then a good property manager once it's rented seem to be the biggest issues for those who aren't local. 

I think your biggest issue with any "work-arounds" is going to be your legal liability and holding the proper insurance in case something goes wrong, which I'm going to assume you'd need to be properly licensed in order to be properly covered by insurance.

This is one of the biggest insulation issues second only to the attic.

What are the biggest challenges people have faced with this.

How did you decide on this property, and what’s been your biggest learning from this project?

To get the biggest bang for the buck , I would go where the highest concentration of illegals live .

The biggest issue with Stessa is that it sounded like they had very low transfer maximums(making it difficult to pay people) but it looks like they've improved a little bit on that.

When you say without luck, what's been the biggest bottleneck?