You can accept online apps, do background checks, accept credit cards (have to setup a merchant account, which was a little complicated), set late fees, etc. 

Your situation is rather complicated and needs a professional (actually more than one considering your lender, Realtor, accountant and maybe a lawyer to discuss putting the whole loan into a trust), not a call center, cookie cutter loan originator.Best of luckStephanie 

These get more complicated, but can often help with 1031 Exchanges that involve multiple properties when closings are not timed well. 

I've had plenty of conversations with new investors who go into the conversation with either A) a strong preference to do one thing or B) a few options they can pursue and in both scenarios they've come out of the conversation reevaluating their prior convictions with new information.For question 3, it's a little more complicated.

Honestly being new to it all I feel clueless and long distance seems more complicated than local investing.

If they just moved in though and have a lease you have to honor it or get them to agree to leave so that could complicate things if they are on a term lease.

However I find that all these rules and regulations just complicate things so much more than they need to be.Reg D 506c, 506b.

for this reason, to blend the models can be overly complicated AND inefficient. 

This is actually a complicated issue, I guess I would ask a couple of things:1.

Why that's the case gets complicated but I think it is generally the best option for slew of legal/practical reasons.