I am willing to pull my weight in risk, loans, paperwork, and deal analysis. 

Agents with this type of expertise are worth their weight in gold to an investor--especially when the investor is relatively new and inexperienced.

if traditional, you would need to have income to support two mortgages; if non traditional 10%-25% down payment depending on the program/your personal situation2) Familiarize yourself with landlord/tenant laws of your state, consult with attorney, weight pros and cons of keeping your home as investment, evaluate risks associating with tenants not paying rents; put together a maintenance crew/team or look into hiring property managers..3) If you were to sell and then buy in NJ - in the ideal world where and what kind of property you would want to purchase?

Its also heavily weighted towards USA readers so I think its something for a bit further down the line.   

It's worth it's weight in gold and not only addresses your question directly, but gives you all the criteria you should use for selecting an out of state team (i.e. realtor, contractor, property manager, lender). 

The benefits of depreciation, appreciation, interest write off, paydown & cash flow far out weight the 15k I would net from a sale! 

I have a potential partner who has more capital than me, but I want to pull my weight.

Keep in mind that the recent sale's cap rates were probably underwritten incorrectly and that those investors have a different weighting for their equity, which will distort the analysis some.

The pros seem to out weight the cons.

I want to check them all out and weight out the options.