In your instance, as the owner of the property you can have a direct non-licensed employee to perform property management.

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I shopped all of my state's CU last time so I only called the top few this time around, it does seem like the best way to go about things.

I'm assuming I should be somewhat prepared before doing this, as I don't want to come across as a "not serious" waste of time to any agents or borrowers.Since I only want to lend locally, how do I get my name out there to start my search for borrowers?

Property management is remote so far, however I only need assistance with handing over Keys to tenants, handling repair requests and doing walk throughs at the end of the lease. 

At the end of the day, losing $10k is really not a lot in the grand scheme of real estate investing, and given the seeming high volatility of this market ($275k to $220k, presumably in a matter of months), and the generally high monthly cost of HML, I would get out quickly and think of the loss as the cost of education.At least in my area (Cincinnati, OH) I don't see the market dramatically improving even as we get into the spring buying season, and, honestly, I only see mortgage rates continuing to climb for the foreseeable future, taking more and more buyers out of the market.

Every day I receive calls from out of state investors who paid far too much for their property in my opinion and it always is because they trusted others too much instead of performing their own research.

We own a vacation property there and our board is looking to replace our current property manager who is under performing to put it kindly. 

How is it performing compared to the proforma?

While I know that return goals are different for each investor and their specific goals, it seems that a bad or low-performing deal for one person might be what another investor is looking for.