Unless you have tons of experience already with corporate management (or military command), it's going to take time to learn how to understand and manage the PEOPLE who are your tenants.

Of course, you should be getting a commercial loan anyway when moving your property into a LLC to protect its corporate veil and keep "clean." 

We are looking to purchase are first rental property to generate extra income.

However, my client is one that does one heck of a job in his market and is a one of my top producers so I look at this from that angle he needs the US income so he can build his resort or resorts on those islands. he has a play on the Islands I can't really go into on open forum but it seems pretty unique but nothing like I said I have an interest in personally at our age. maybe if we were still 30 YO and immortal I would have  a different perspective on it all. 

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with zero or negative relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560, little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

Also practically, building a sustainable active income through the sales business will get very far.

By paying taxes on the income you receive from the trust, you can potentially spread the tax burden over many years.

buy multi family first to generate passive income then buy primary Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

His $300k annual income well exceeds his cost of living even after tax.

I'll always take property taxes over income taxes.