Also, offers great lending oppurtites on your equity in your portfolio of assets.

Are you looking from a more traditional real estate perspective where you're trying to acquire an asset for long term preservation of wealth, tax advantages, to have guests help out with the mortgage payemnts, potentially have rents and home value increase in time with normal inflation, and are okay with the idea of paying some amount out of the pocket some (most?)

Basic.What you are doing now is tossing around terms and over-researching how to make money and not figuring out what your why is and what asset class is actually attractive to you.

You will need to really start playing the long game though and focus on securing assets that have good underlying fundamentals as you will need to get more creative with the financing if you want to keep moving quickly.

They will have those assets locked down so you can’t use them for about 2 years until you can get an appraisal to release them with your new equity.I would stay away from relatives funding.  

Morbid question here...but at a certain age we thing "What happens to my assets when I die?".

This is a huge plus because it offers liability protection, meaning your personal assets are shielded if there are any legal issues with tenants or the property.Doesn’t Appear on Your Personal Credit: One of the big perks is that these loans don’t get reported on your personal credit profile, so they won’t impact your credit score or debt visibility.

Just imagine reducing your living expense, owning an asset, and having your tenants pay the bulk of the mortgage, then repeating this a few times over all while every year the rents go up.

I have heard of a decent amount of people either investing/ living in Bali, it seems to be a pretty big hub for digital nomads.

In both your scenarios, the lender should be able to recoup their investment provided there are no other creditors (or at least liabilities that exceed assets).