I cant speak for every deal they have ever done, but I will say that any deals That I was involved in with safeguard and there was any issue whatsoever they jumped in and worked diligently to solve the issue as if it was there own money. 

Buy and holds is the key to true wealth with all the benefits of depreciation, appreciation, loan pay down by your tenants, leveraging the equity, cash-flow etc etc, but it often times isn't the active income that pays the bills until you build up a portfolio and even then there's the tenant management or managing your property managers.That's why I'm involved in all 3.

You open yourself to much more risk in not being able to finance out of it and being stuck with hard money and those fees/penalties.

Partner Driven saw the potential to generate a solid return with minimal risk, making it a perfect fit for our investment strategy.

Raising money is all about marketing and sales (not real estate specific) so either hire marketing agency and read sales books, or hop on some LinkedIn courses on marketing and sales.Not sure the legal structure to use: talk to accountants and attorneys.Need deal flow: talk to brokers and go to a lot of networking events.Lending terms: start calling banks and loan brokers.From there, it is all risk mitigation. 

Duplexes cash flow better, have less risk, AND EASIER TO MANAGE compared to a SFH.  

Although that would be looked down upon by a lender as well because of the inherent risk of lending to someone who has too much on their plate. 

But now you have a challenge of documenting both your time AND time of everybody else involved with the property.Now, to answer your question - is it possible from out of state?

Even when you buy a property with tentants, you also have the risk that they stop paying you and since you didn't screen them, you are left with just hoping they won't do that.

If the homeowner is promised new financing, a straw borrower will then be involved.