First and foremost, thank you for your time interacting with this post! 

I have a 1gb plan for a video intercom that only costs $7/mo.

Vistaprint.com is the best. 4) perhaps use some of the money to have an attorney draw up an assignable contract specific to your needs or your state. 5) maybe use grasshopper.com as a phone service to keep things sounding professional. 6) make videos about what you do and upload them on Facebook. 7) use some of the $1,000 to use as due diligence money (give a potential home seller $100 cash in order to put the home under contract for 30-45 days until you find a buyer).

The forums are a great place to interact with other like minded folks.

I plan on having a family member go check out the property, I expect my PM to send me videos, and pictures of the good the bad and the ugly.  

Do you think it is worth the cost of the drone/video editing software?

After you have read several books/blogs/forums and watched several videos on the topic, you'll be able to answer the majority of your own questions.

The point I want to get across is real estate investing requires physical interaction with property.

I say this with the perspective of living abroad for large portions of my life and interacting with people from al over the world.

I have bought SFR, but this is my first time interacting with commercial real estate agents.