The market you’re looking into might be high cost and hard to break into, but unfortunately that is not going to get any easier over time.  

Our local towns and rental assistance programs really appreciate those that try to work with their tenants which has helped me several times through easier permitting processes.

You'll have a property manager do the management (so you being close to it is not needed).Yes there are risks for some people to go out of state but if you learn the techniques like I have, you'll see it's actually easier and far less risky.

It is easier with the app to pull the data in for property of interest, and comps.     

Before we poured, we sprayed oil on the plywood and form boards to make it easier to take off from the concrete. 

Gross profit is interesting because it appears to just be the difference in his acquisition and sales price and fails to take into account the other obvious cost of running that business which includes, again according to him, the cost of over 26,000 letter print, mail, post, and the cost of the lists needed to create a mailer of that size. 

If you consistently analyze properties, recognizing a good deal will be much easier when it shows up.

Plus, if you want to scale quickly, turnkey providers make it easier to buy multiple properties without worrying about finding each one individually.If you’re feeling comfortable with taking on a little more responsibility, you could also buy directly through an agent and work with a property manager to handle everything.

Imagine me asking my attorney for $35K worth of free court appearance /advise or a real estate agent to forgo the 6% fees on selling of a home or demanding my property manager give me 20 years of free property management or going to Best Buy every week and coming out with a cart full of electronics good without paying, etc.

Obviously this is easier to do when buying off-market.