Whatever criteria you adopt, be sure to stick to it.Find a lender that you can shadow or work with if you would like to cut the learning curve. 

I would like to get into STR and MTR, maybe flipping.

When you contact live and invest to see if they can help, they are nowhere to be found.One of the sales people for the Panama real estate told me Lief gets kick backs for every sale that comes from his live and invest folks like me (he claims he does all the due diligence for us to make sure it's a good investment) but he's probably just making a deal with these developers and ends up the winner and we end up the loser.

I need to continue to pursue cash flow but would very much like to be in a more remote position to spend time on the lending side because being a realtor and appraiser is limiting in a local geographic sense. 

To be perfectly honest, real estate investing, no matter the strategy, has always seemed like a far off dream despite all of the reading I’ve done.

You also can have someone who uses matterport or other software to scan and create floor plans if that’s all you need and that costs like 250

Does KC feel like a good market for that, for the people that are there?

What are your thoughts on providing infant gear like pack 'n plays and high chairs?

I would like to lend to a BRRR couple using my SDIRA.

If you buy a polluted property, it's highly likely that the cost of cleanup is yours.I've represented a few gas stations in Massachusetts, so from experience I can tell you that you'll need a current environmental survey.