We'd be doing all leg work on the ground.

I haven't every done something like what you've described, but if it works and didn't cost an arm/leg more power.Take care

A quote I like to try and remember when I am worrying: "Worry is like a rocking chair it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere."

I still haven't decided if I'm open to living in Jersey :p but I'm thinking it's better to be an open minded property owner than a snobby New Yorker who spends an arm and a leg in rent, right?

Reviews and referrals are everything in this business. he might just be pulling your leg about costs going up yada yada cause he wants the business, but it doesn't mean he'll do a bad job.

You don't have much of a leg to stand on if he's not having it and you don't have the funding already lined up.

So two days later Im already moved into my new apartment, already got my desk and my office chair, and my internet set up, so Im ready to roll. 

I am looking to rent out the property for approx. 3-5 years thinking this is one of the neighborhoods in Denver that still has some legs for appreciation.  

I am young, creative, full of energy and have the endurance to do the leg work to build these relationships and make it happen.

I don't know about the left coast, and other areas, but the lost note defense seemed to have legs here for about 10 minutes, and only in the minds of some foreclosure defense attorneys.