I would like to find people investing remotley that I could assist with boots on the ground setvices in my area.

Boots on the ground so to speak.....

I'm acting as his boots on the ground and project manager as he lives in Harrington. 

No better information than actual boots on the ground.

If you want to get off to the right start, wait it out until you can be your own boots on the ground and see what you are buying.

Staying local is always a better practice for your first deal unless you have boots on the ground in AZ that can manage the property and provide the updates and advance warnings you would need as a first-time investor.

As many others of commented, do your research and make sure you have a good boots-on-the-ground team in place.  

But before you do anything, you need to get someone in there who can give you a boots-on-the ground opinion. 

You're behind the times sir, or perhaps some idiot told you that it only applies to institutional lenders.If we see this posted again, we'll take it up with BP and the last guy that posted harassing bad information finally got the boot off the site.

Much less important, is to wait until you return and/or have some local boots on the ground with signature authority, in the area you want to lend.$30k to $75k is not that much unless you're looking at relatively low value first position deals, but I don't know your area or to whom you might lend.