You only get a sense of this by meeting face-to-face once or twice.A bad borrower can kill a great project.

You'll need to meet requirements like parking and setbacks and might encounter additional hurdles in environmentally sensitive or historic areas.

I'm a part of local real estate investors meeting and I have some good realtor contacts.

Hi everyone, I am in Japan meeting with some agents.

Great to meet you via forums and will do!

You can meet your appraiser when he goes, maybe help clear things up.

Events like this give the opportunity to meet and talk to investors from all over the country, doing different kind of investing, and with a varied amount of experience.

We host an investor meet up monthly in Alexandria, could be a good place to start.

Although it is possible to do everything 100% remote, most people I know who are self managing do come on site for a few days or weeks to meet and sort of interview the team they are building.You will need trusted cleaners, handymen, and also good recs for trades i.e. roof, plumbing, HVAC, etc.If you need home setup in most markets there are designers who will handle the whole set up for you, and I would want to interview them as well.  

However, you could look into a “construction exchange” where the funds are used to improve a new property acquired through the exchange, but it must meet specific IRS rules within the time frame.