I won't ever close on another OOS property without walking it first but that involves paying for lots of flights and hotel/rental car costs if flying out there to make an offers but the $1500 to $3000 would be worth the cost to me to save on future headaches. 

Steps 2 & 3 would be the main contributions of a Civil Engineer who is involved. 

All of those can be seen in the thread linked below.Who is Bob Stevens AKA Bob Prisco and what's his involvement in Cleveland?

Ensure that the savings from the new loan outweigh the costs of the prepayment penalty and any closing costs involved in the refinance.6.

The borrowers could be paying their mortgage to scottsdale or scottsdale most likely sold the loans - when you invest in a syndication you have rights to manage the specific assets unless he gets a court order which there are also many other investors involved. 

If you want to scale, it likely won't involve you running your own renovations as a GC.

Welcome, great community here on BP but also in-person in Central Texas, definitely encourage you to get involved in the lots of groups and events in the region!

Because first and foremost it requires you getting INVOLVED, putting in some rep's, and if you won't get involved and won't put in the rep's you will never, I repeat you will NEVER succeed in investment real estate or any business venture EVER, full-stop. 

Short-term rentals (STRs) offer a way around these limitations by being considered active income if you meet certain material participation requirements, such as working more than 500 hours or 100 hours, surpassing anyone else involved.

Then when things go to hell they walk away and pretend they had no involvement with the Property Manager even though they facilitated countless transactions positioning themselves as the owner.