But now you have a challenge of documenting both your time AND time of everybody else involved with the property.Now, to answer your question - is it possible from out of state?

"A second question is if I finance the car purchase can I also deduct the business use portion of the interest charged on the loan?"

My question is, do I just not touch the first property, use the cash flow to reinvest and pay down the mortgage or save up for a downpayment down the road OR do I pull cash out of the first property to buy the next property?

The accredited investor status question should be addressed by the investment sponsor, regardless of the comments you read here.

What’s your biggest question about buying real estate in Germany?

Happy to share lessons learned from out of state managing/investing if you have specific questions. 

As for the initial post, I would ask a few questions to shed some guiding light.

.: Great question.

In his words, this is away around the due on sale clause that you can run into in a sub - to transaction.My question - if the seller puts the property in a trust, will this avoid the potential of a due on sale clause?

And to answer your question, I've owned section 8 rentals along with lots of different asset types.