There is a very big expat community and the locals here are very kind to foreigners. 

The majority of data is open source and we can get it by simply looking at Zillow, county websites or heaven forbid taking a trip down to the county clerk’s office and actually pulling the documents.

@Mirlyne AndreRecommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

Justify it how you want, but you're making him throw TP in a trash bin like this is some foreign country.Fix the plumbing, if it can't handle TP you don't want to learn how you'll fix it later.Those costs you complained about you charge to the game.

I would definitely connect with a good agent that sources a ton of off-market deals and has the right systems to help you understand the market. 

What platform did you all use to source the tenants?

But, for me at the moment, it's building a good team around me to help advise on next steps from sourcing to financing and closing.

Relationships are everything in this business.Our current land development pipeline now comes from relationships with a local landowners.How are others sourcing deals?

And there will never be a less expensive lead source than referrals from relationships you build. 

My boyfriend is a foreign national with an ITIN number, US address, and an AMEX in the USA, but he is not a US citizen, so a lot of the times, he is not offered good loan programs.