That will be good practice to talking to strangers.  

I seriously doubt that you will find a stranger to do ir either. 

If I could live in half and rent the other half out to complete strangers that would be a selling point.

Im no stranger to the trade; however, I hear of new processes and techniques all the time and If it's legit and tested I was sure the BP community would know about it.  

You could allow applicants to enter without supervision and this would be fine until you have that one person that causes a problem, like squatting, and then you will realise how reckless a decision it is to allow a stranger into a property worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars unsupervised.The reality is that if a owner does not want to do the work or is not interested in doing the work associated with operating their business it would be wise to either hire a responsible property management company or sell.As some have indicated there are simple and cost effective ways to do it but safe is not possible.

I'm no stranger to hard work and really looking forward to getting this going.

That and a new investor will learn about all those nuances much faster and with much lower risk by operating hands on and local as opposed to hiring out everything and leaving it all to the kindness of strangers in an out of state market they no nothing about except for what they read on the internet. 

Out of state you give up your home court advantage, significantly increase your risk by going to a market you are less familiar with, give up almost complete control over your investment and instead will be nearly 100% reliant on the kindness of strangers to keep your best financial interests at heart and make or break your investments for you.

I know 2% response seems very low, but considering that fact, that you can get a stranger to listen and hear your proposal is a feat in itself. 

This all but precludes lending to out-of-state strangers or finding your borrowers online as you suggest, unless they also happen to be local to you.