Start with the county, zoning, planning commissions etc.

I have one property at the moment, but plan to expand my portfolio. 

Many OOS investors pick one market to master before expanding.Spending the next few months learning and analyzing deals is a great plan!

I’m actually in Arizona at one of our properties until the beginning of October but am planning to be back in that first week.

For my family investing OOS is a big long term goal (most likely south with mountains), but it's never been the main plan. 

The bank will put a hold on them, so you can't just draw them out, so don't plan to need them for a while.This will cost you an appraisal on both properties to be performed by that lender. 

There is plenty of tax planning opportunity with a property type of that size. 

Instead, focus on learning their plans, challenges, and openness to selling.5.

How do you plan on handling that situation6.

I think this business plan exists in all types of real estate and non-real estate businesses.