Ask your agent to do a video walk through if you are unable to physically see the property in person.

Wholesaling/Flipping are considered active income - you'll want to run these businesses in Corporations.

Alas, I live in a rural (small city) area so meeting people physically is going to be a rare event so I need to figure out how to overcome this fear/concern. 

If I implemented something like this in my storage business, I would be sure to have in writing to each tenant to ALWAYS have their physical key on hand in case the system is down for any reason and they have to manually unlock their unit.

Also, search online for minimum health/safety/physical requirements of the property/unit. 

Gas also reduces the necessary load on your electric panel; I've been able to avoid having to upgrade a few panels on houses by incorporating gas water heaters and gas furnaces.

They have different methods of value, Zillow for some reason seems to like incorporating the tax assessor and working from there, which is often a bad idea I don't know about the others though.

Then I incorporated new companies in OH and NY, and I’ve just got bank accounts for them.

However, my physical link to MD is that that is where my parents live.

Kevin,I like studying with physical books, so I went with the Kaplan courses that included books:https://www.kapre.com/real-est...Totally great.