You can phone and email contacts to get things done, but its obviously much harder to hop a domestic flight to pay a visit and shake hands, walk a property, sign closing documents, etc. 

@Mark Brogan First you must have a website if you don't have that then you really make the automation that much harder.Next I will have a phone system that will answer calls that will force people to visit our website.

To buy and live in yourself, you might come out ahead verses renting cause of the tax benefits/debt pay down/ appreciation over time. 

I visited two Sept.'

This is an amazing forum: one that I visit several times per week.

I tend to err on the side of risk, but I'd go ahead with your strategy of renting it out.

I was going full speed ahead to sell it, but then I thought why not continue renting it out, and get a line of credit and invest the proceeds into cash flow positive investments?

@Jesse WatersJesse, I'm in SC visiting family.

Make sure you visit the "learn" tab and get as much information as you can while still in school!

I've learned a ton on BiggerPockets, but I felt like I should visit an attorney to validate what I'm learning here.