@Adam Eckhoffdo you have a team on the ground in KS that will manage this for you? 

It's an area where some struggle (especially in the beginning), but it's certainly overcomeable - and it's something that can definitely get easier when you get more established, learn how to advertise effectively and build up a buyers list.To put it as simply as possible, I'd say it's ultimately a matter of:Buying the right properties in the first place.Offering a compelling price point (which usually isn't hard, if you buy it right).Compiling the information well (with good images and descriptions).Getting your listing in front of as many eyeballs as possible (and keeping it visible).If you're able to, provide the option for seller financing, so buyers have more ways to buy your property if they're unable to get the cash from another source.Does that make sense?

& later our children.....and still learning new ways to work through things together; how to build up our marriage with love and honor and respect for my husband; also still learning how important it is to remember that we're on the same ship, together — often in deep, scary seas, and remember that he's my husband, not my child or brother and how, too often, I feel that I know what's best, and too often I try to force my opinion, or my wants, but also how in the end, I'm not always right and my way is not always best (or even all that often even all that good, when I really step back & open my heart & swallow my pride -- even when it felt so strongly that way before the arguments that I caused.  

If you can buy owner occupied property at the lowest down payment and lowest interest rates, occupy for 2 years and move on to the next for a few years...you will have strong winds behind your back, in terms of cash flow and equity buildup. 

Unfortunately I was not able to build up quite as much capital as we would have liked before her stroke forced her into an early retirement.

I intend to house hack for my first deal and slowly build up my portfolio as I keep working as a Project Engineer for a multifamily construction company in Austin.

House hacking it for a year or so, could allow you to build up extra funds for a future down payment, furnishings, and other costs. 

We also were approved for the Chase Ink.  

We spend a looot of time in Kings Mountain.

The interest on barrowed money is somewhere around 10% and I thought he may be able to use that to lend on deals and begin to build up a fund to invest himself.