I'd guess finding good tenants is tough.

Short term results have been bad but I still have high confidence in the property and area.My only suggestion to anyone looking to get into the market is to do your homework, be completely prepared for some large bumps in the road, and treat everything as a learning experience for your future plans, it's tough to get it all 100% right out the gate.

I feel like I would need to be more hands on with my investments & being so far would be tough to manage

Personally, seasonal income worries me but you may have some luck picking something up in Kissimee area and renting it out to a Disney employee

I would have 1099'd her for non employee compensation. 

Hey @Rachel Pitts, that is a tough question.

As an employee, we get a great discount on materials.

If not and you are self-employed with no employees you can set up a Solo 401k, and if you are eligible to rollover the funds (e.g. from a former employer plan or non-roth ira), you could rollover to a solo 401k plan that allows to take a 401k participant loan. 

All that said, property management is tough and I would absolutely read reviews. 

I have been searching for 9 months now with very limited success for deal flow, perhaps my market size is too small (I am looking about an hour radius from my business and home base), but I am managing my rehabs and managing my portfolio myself along with my employees, so going out of state for me would be more difficult.