With 30K and time on my side in your situation of wanting to get into "multifamily" I would try to find a nice multi, in a decent area that you would want to live in.

Flat fee would be nice.....or some reasonable explanation of fees. 

It took me a few months to get it rehabbed and rented but it's now a nice money maker for me. 

Curious how it was approached considering the lack of ability to regularly visit and monitor progress.

So very nice of you to offer.

If you're worried about the cost of interest over time, well, you have the option of making additional payments towards the principal, but it's nice to have a low minimum payment when you don't have much cash, or you have a vacancy.Sorry if I haven't answered all your questions, but I'm sure there are other members with better ideas than mine.

Nice work!

We reached out to selling agents, signed the CA, got the financials, visited the properties, talked to banks and got preliminary paperwork started to be able to write a LOI (Letter Of Intent).

So we hit a bad streak with houses having issues and GC's and subs taking their time to have things completed on time, quality of work, subs not being paid, my husband and I had to much involvement and time spent so we said we have to change strategies.4) We both work full time jobs so the time we could spend at the job site was limited and hence the reason why you hire a GC but then you start hearing comments "oh it must be nice to work full time jobs, flip houses on the side, and show up here when you want too and do nothing and make all this money!"

@Dave Foster  Nice answer.