He talks on BP quite often about the BRRRR deals he does in Memphis. 

I kicked things off by listening to the BiggerPockets podcast, where I heard an inspiring story from a woman who’d quit her W2 job within a few years of investing.

This is making it incredibly challenging to compete with.As you poke into Brewery town, point breeze and going further into those neighborhoods you will start to see the class of RE change quite drastically. 

America they can eat anyones lunch they choose to at any given moment. 

I started investing in Phoenix in my 20s too, and it's been quite the adventure.About your F1 visa situation, while I'm not an attorney or CPA, I had a client a while back in a similar postion.

The Carls will eat the same stuff they served.

Although, Google Sheets has helped me quite a bit at times with the right formulas.

I've been researching this quite a bit and am looking into acquiring an STR that I would actively manage and would keep average stay at 7 days or less.

On top of that I love how they say keep your job and do real estate well in my eyes the best way to juggle that is with LTRs if I were to get in to the STRs I’ll just buy a Hilton and quit my job…… easier said then done.

There a quite a few options here, and the details will determine what's available to you.