Now, in a couple of years when you're established and have a good book of business, you could loosen up on the schedule and networking part, but these are good starting steps that helped me get to where I am. 

Hitting someone cold will not give you that leverage.As Russell said, investing long distance is extremely risky without an established crew and contacts in the area you are looking. 

You can sign up for these on a great website called Meetup.Financial Preparation:Evaluate Your Finances: Understand your current financial situation, including savings, credit score, and any potential sources of funding.Create a Budget: Establish a budget for your first investment.

The issue is with each new tenant you have to re-establish access and hook up the solar so each turn you will need to get access to their wifi. 

It is always a gamble when spending money.but like the movie Field of Dreams said over and overIf you build it they will come.I believe that there are people who although don't make muchand cannot afford the extras would love to have the extras and take care of the privilege.What I have found is that if you price too low you get people who are too slick for their own good.It is my model to offer the upgrades for the same price as my competition.not lower but the same.So the value is built in upon lease signing.

Establish the ground rules and stick to them.

This is meant to establish the loan as a commercial investment loan NOT a consumer loan. 

If you're established enough as an investor that you're already doing projects and own assets, it's highly likely that taking the time to save 10 cents per letter by doing it yourself is not worth your time.

So, we took a gamble and sold our home we forced sweat equity into and took our equity and ran west to start over again.

@David Gamble - If you are wholesaling this deal you with the numbers you provided you are leaving zero equity to the end buyer.