i think you can be successful if you are willing to do what you alluded to, which is spend time in person in your chosen market. 

When your LLC takes a loan, expect as members to personally guarantee the debt.

When was the last time my coach/mentor/instructor personally closed a deal? 

Personally, my favorite way of sourcing deals is building relationships with brokers and nurturing those relationships by checking in consistently.

Because personal growth and financial stability sounded like a better combo than Netflix and takeout.

You are correct… if a person has 600k and they can afford to risk it going alone in a new country and that’s what they want to do with the money then why not go it alone.

I personally had two encounters with Zach.

Quite the opposite - I invest my personal money as just one more member, in each investment we end up doing as a club. 

I have about 100k in assets both personal and business I could sell, but part of me thinks that’s extreme and I’ll sell “myself” along the way with all my stuff.  

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