I live in a costly area, and this is the main stoppage point of getting me to just jump in.

I could easily train virtual assistants to handle these payments and have an app created for encrypting sensitive data for facilitating the transactions through financial service partners from my main line of business.

Age isn't the main factor here.  

As for your property, two main items that came up:1.

What are your main investment goals—cash flow, appreciation, or something else?

Hopefully this helps clear up the main point of your post!

there was a group of 8 of us that pooled money in a Cabal myself and one other were the main money guys the others put in smaller amounts and when we won one.. we would divy up interest prorata to the amount contributed.. this kept those guys from competing against us and for sure we bid up newbies .. really the only ones that would beat us were those that wanted to live in the house and would just go almost all the way to retail or above .. or someone bidding on a second thinking it was a first and no one is going to help you if you dont know what your doing.. this is a very caveat emptar bizz.

Your main concern should be whether these bedrooms and bathrooms on the lower level are legal and have the proper egress require for fire code and livability.

That tells you mainly want buyers are hunting for and purchasing.

Imo, this is the critical element.