There are also additional costs of operating and maintaining an LLC, like separate bank accounts, annual report filings, tax filings, etc.2.

If it’s at or near 70% we dig into the full cost model that accounts for financing costs (hard money and GAP), acquisition costs, holding costs and selling costs.

Your bank account will thank you!"

Maybe look at numbers and properties you could do a potential house hack and begin to plot out moves but I don't want you to fall into the analysis paralysis group and never make a move, have people that will encourage and keep you accountable. 

And there're restrictions on how you can use these accounts.

Also are there any accountants that could help? 

It wasn’t until Joey cleaned out a joint bank account and got Chris for $25k that he realized Joey was not a good guy.

Well one thing that is interesting in regards to Earnest Money is that you take a place like Ohio, I'd imagine it's the same in Oregon but in Ohio the Division of Real Estate regulates the activities of real estate brokerages and their trust accounts but the Division of Insurance is who regulates title companies.

Starting out, I would try to take equity from your primary/another property using a HELOC, borrower against a 401k/retirement account, or partner with someone that has cash. 

Much like what you've pointed out, the homes we could afford to put 50% down on needed a ton of work, plus we needed to set up bank accounts and such in Italy.This is something we're still looking into, but we decided that we will need to make it a vacation home/permeant residence for us and continue most of our investing in the US and other countries for the time being.