I'm willing to travel and just want to get an idea of any brokers out there that I might be talking with to see if we're a fit and how we might work together.  

Talking to them will help clarify your options, as there's more than one way to approach this. 

We talked to the next door neighbor, he's been there 52 years, never flooded until now and had 8' of water in his house, nuts. 

When interviewing Ankit Duggal they talk a lot about the pro's and con's of using family money for investing.

Regardless, what I'm trying to say is that you don't have to follow the same path but talk to several other lenders as there are options with smaller credit unions if you're strictly looking for buy and hold without having to do rehab.

Talk to brokers and listing agents to see what kind of demand there is for that type of space.

If you don't know what I am talking about nor your broker, you have to go get this information ;).Hope this helps!

Using a middle man landlord will just raise money laundering concerning.  3) I do not think a bank is going to be interested in anything near 85% LTV.Now if you were talking about a tech start up like Tesla? 

You might want to give me a shout and talk.

QUESTION #2: Everyone I listen to or talk to say "sign the closing contract then bring in the buyer like an hour later for the assignment agreement"Because if you sign the closing contract with the seller and the buyer backs out last second, you already signed the closing contract aren't you stuck with the house at that point?