Unless you need access to the technology and/or want to answer phones for them looking for leads, you can accomplish everything you need to in a modest home office.

@Tom HertelI completely understand what you mean.I am saying now $15 an hour is acceptable, but next year $25, and it should increase every year.Managing tenants can be difficult. I

This is in N Portland by PCC.Great for me, but now I have to find something to work on before my tear off is ready to begin and it has definitely been difficult.  I

All that said, there is difficulty mastering recovering from real property in loans because the way real property works in note investing is not like it works in other versions of the same.

There are plenty of new white label solutions that will allow you to use technology to raise money on your own without the need for intermediaries that add very little value to the process.  

Actually I did initially have difficulty finding a lender who would not only loan for properties below $50k (Most banks use that number for their lowest amount that I've found), but also it was difficult to find a lender who'd do loans that low, AND do them as commercial loans.  

What were the difficulties you ran into and how did you solve them?

Gotta love how technology is making things so much easier for today's investor.  

I think that it is easy to find renters in this market, however buying affordable properties may be difficult. I

These are very different strategies and couldn't be farther away from each other on the difficulty of investing scale.