Secondly, it would be great to have a meet up in a vaguely central to everyone kinda area.

This is some of the best information I've read in a while.

Personally, I would never invest in a place I didn't even visit and also meet/interview the people who would be involved (agent, manager, contractor, etc.)

Today we have 540 units in a few states and things are not without challenges. 

You’re in a great spot!

I am looking to join a mentorship program to help lower my learning curve and until I find it, I am educating myself with books, as well as YouTube University and great advice from the BiggerPockets community.I do work full-time in a career that I love and is very rewarding, but I also know I won't attain my goals with my current job.

People care more about the appearance of kitchen appliances because they are in a public portion of the house as opposed to washer/dryers which visitors rarely see. 4.

The idea is to convert a multi-family building into condos; but not in the traditional sense where you separate pre-existing apartments into their own condos; but in a way where you combine the common areas of all of the apartments in that whole building, and turn the individual rooms within those apartments into condos themselves; thus transforming the hallways, kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, porches, balconies into common areas of the condos. 

I agree with you that they would usually be better off buying in A and B neighborhoods unless they live locally and know what they’re getting into.

Here in Pittsburgh, the homeowner owns the sewer line from the house to the sewer main tie in. A