Check your expenses and get them in line, with virtually no housing expenses you should be able to save the down payment very quickly. 

There are many great tax pros out there who work virtually with clients from coast to coast and work mainly with real estate investors.

I think for virtually all newbies the best market for them to invest in is their own market; no more than an hour drive, ideally less.The worse market for the newbie to invest in is the historically zero appreciation, high projected cash flow, OOS market.I preach what I say. 

Or is this one of your Virtual Assistants responding to an algorithm while you are on a surfboard?

I virtually have zero consumer debt and would still be able to maintain my current lifestyle with that big of a pay cut.Another concern I have is how it could potentially affect my attractiveness to lenders.

Buys duplex and single family and utilized virtual assistants.

Have you listened to the most recent BiggerPockets podcast episode- Episode 360 Leveraging Virtual Assistants and Automation to Build a $2m Portfolio with Stephanie Cabral?

In my mind virtually ever offer of some sort of business line of credit that is unsecured.. unless you get it from YOUR credit union or YOUR bank.. is a waste of time and someone trying to scam you.. 

That is why it is recommended, for example, that if you are going to buy & hold property, you include the cost of property management in your initial calculations, so that you can see if/when you "graduate" to virtually passive management, you can pay for that management. 

I learned it fast and soon became a very good scripter on this game called "Roblox" where I used the skill to try and gain virtual money to in-turn trade it in for real money.