If you can find a partner with the capital and/or lack of time, you can become that go to person on the team to make sure you are making solid decisions on the buy side, especially if your partners are out of state. 

Next to 0 unless it is coming from a personal contact or a HELOC or something like that. 

We run in-person meetups in Northern New Jersey on the first WED of every month, but in July it's the second WED in Morristown.

I personally won't be doing them here in MD, but some people specialize in acquiring those types of properties and I would strongly suggest you to attend local meet ups and try to speak with someone who had done it successfully and never got burned.

And of course there's the standard closing costs of the loan, initial insurance payments, permits etc. 

If you are thinking of creating a secondary market of some sort, you'd be the third person in the last 5 years that I've talked to and answered this exact question. 

They will want to walk through the place and may change their offer based on their personal inspection. 5.

see link http://www.dupageco.org/Recorder/3392/You can search personally or online.

Other option, be a person of solution on where they are going next, help them find a place rental etc., or get them lined up with a residence in and pay for it for the first month. 

When I've met the dog in person, it's very calm and nice; it just seems to bark a lot when its owner is not home.