Are you more comfortable with that strategy? 

With a good property management company, I am quite comfortable not being across the street from it.

That combined with a price list my wife and I made for materials makes me feel comfortable with the number. 

In the end that comfort level is a deciding factor.

Some people are comfortable having their rentals channel straight through their personal tax returns into their schedule E without the LLC shelter, and some always end-up purchasing the property from themselves with their LLC and position themselves that way.

I've had several roofers out but they seemed out of their comfort zone with that type of work.

Not too familiar with that, but would be a lot more comfortable with Sub-2 transactions if the DOS clause went away...

Who is comfortable with a nice profit spread.

You should plan to "study" the real estate market for a minimum of 3 months, maybe 6 or more, until you get a decent comfort level.

I wanted to be close to our first couple of investments, just so I feel comfortable with the whole process before attempting to do it from out of state.