People need to know you like you and trust you but trust is the most important element.

I look forward to interacting with you on your investing.

You are setting yourself up for failure when you don't know the legal elements of a contract but believe it's wise to help others who know even less.

The process is meant to be completed online (no human interaction).

Looking forward to interacting with you all and joining you in this journey!

- Familiarity with the local markets- More parties to work with (more cogs in the machine ie. property managers)- The lack of face to face interactions with different parties.The thing I neglected to mention was that I have a very flexible schedule and I'm able and willing to live and stay in the city I'm investing in for several months at a time (esp in the first couple years).

The client interaction we have found has to be face to face, at least for the first couple of projects.

The costs weren't out of hand for the construction elements, but I under-estimated the soft costs and over paid for the land itself for the location.

Ultimately, my end goal would be to use APIs for lead generation, automate basic qualifying data points based on our personal acquisition criteria (location, potential rents per unit, AVR, rehab costs, etc.) to eliminate the manual element behind analyzing deals. 

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books for this or you can learn by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.