Tons of smokers, loitering, cussing in public, and even a couple situations that made the local news (tenant through a TV off the second-story balcony, then the next week drove his car into one of our contractors trucks and threatened him with physical violence...4 police cars on the scene).- New desirable tenants do not want to move into an apartment complex and pay market rents when it's still a dumpSo we accelerated the entire process. 

Since neither your post nor your profile indicates where you are physically located, it would be nearly impossible for anyone to offer you helpful advice.As a new member, there are several things you can do to increase the likelihood of getting helpful responses here on the forum.

And you'll start getting a feel for what you're actually willing to accept to close a deal in a particular market.Once you land your first deal, then your knowledge levels up again as you deal with rehabbing/timelines/property management and the ultimate return on investment after completing the physical work on the property.

When a baseball player hits one out of the park, but can't explain the physics behind it, does it cause you to rag on him and suggest that if he can't explain it, he's doing it wrong? 

Also, you (or someone) will need to be physically present for some parts of the transaction like inspections and walk throughs.

Especially thank you to my partner who I would never have had the physical and mental fortitude to keep going in this REI roller coaster @Joel Mendenhall, you're an amazing Project Manager.And thankful that I have the strength and courage to listen to my intuition and judgement which helps me weed out all the naysayers and the negativity about REI. 

Instead of cold calling random banks, go to the REIA meetup local to where the real estate is physically at, and ask those investors who is doing their mortgages. 

If you or someone you trust doesn’t physically go and tour the building you will never know the truth  

A prospective Property manager I am vetting uses Show mojo to show properties instead of physically going to showings.

One recent New York decision found that “given the now widespread use of email as a form of written communication in both personal and business affairs, it would be unreasonable to conclude that email messages are incapable of conforming to the criteria of (the New York version of the UETA) simply because they cannot be physically signed in a traditional fashion”[2]UETA applies “only to transactions between parties, each of which has agreed to conduct transactions by electronic means.