They can verify your eligibility for the VA IRRRL and guide you through the process without the risk of dealing with potential scams.If you have more questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask.

@Agustin Silveyra have you looked into finding a house hacking agent yet to guide you?

Let me know how I can help to guide you.

Use them as guides in decision making not hard and fat rules.

As they are a realtor, ask them for recommendations of a good realtor down there.Go for a trip there to look at places and get a feel for the neighbourhoods you think would work.

Hello Bigger Pockets Community,My fiancé and I are beginning our real estate investment journey but we live and work in one of the most expensive markets in the world - even though we are 20 minutes from San Francisco there is not a property in our city listed at under 1 million (yes).So I recently took a trip to Costa Rica for the sole purpose of identifying regions we would like to invest in and ended up finding a fantastic little condo for our starter property.

I started with some youtube videos, as well as reading BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginners Guide.

This is a great forum with very knowledgeable members that will help to guide you in the right direction.There are some pretty cool discounts on various products and services offered as Perks to BP members that you might want to check out: https://www.biggerpockets.com/perks/pro

As a foreigner getting conventional lending might be an obstacle and I think there will be many people on this forum that can provide resources to guide you through. 

I don't want to trip over myself and fall into a worse position.