To me the biggest issue with out of state investing and long term rentals is that you have to deal with property damages and/or evictions. 

The biggest advantage of using someone local to where you're buying is that they will understand taxes, insurance, and similar items very well when it comes to DTI/DSCR calculations and payment quotes, and they will likely have a local network of service providers for ancillary services (survey, inspections, etc).

This is literally the biggest obstacle for any data center development today.

I've never been through this process and it's my biggest fear because it seems to be SO costly!

Hey @Trevor Scheumann, The biggest thing to look for when visiting a new potential market is going to be to network with boots on the ground, namely property managers, highly recommended realtors and maybe a few contractors if they come from trusted sources.

My biggest time suck is showing the apartments which I like doing myself to meet tenants.

Have you got past the hurdle of the first investment yet?

I feel we often want the biggest best thing and that may not turn out the way we hope!

Quote from @Chris Seveney: Quote from @Lu Kang: Quote from @Carlos Ptriawan: one biggest issue with syndicator is during 2021 (low interest rate era) they purchase very low cap asset with floating debt while CPE is increasing, that's suicidal if they know a bit of macroeconomics.sorry guys.... 

If its a log cabin it might have trouble qualifying for the refi - would be smart to get some opinions early if that is your gameplan - would likely be a bigger potential hurdle than the gift/original purchase process