Hi Ella, welcome aboard,Your post about your real estate ambitions, encompassing the purchase, renovation, and sale of properties, as well as the ownership of Airbnb rentals, is indeed an exciting endeavor.

It's putting out lots of fires, managing finances like a hawk, keeping projects on time, in line and on budget, marketing the property & getting it through closing, and *then* doing it all over again - and that's if you're not doing any of the work yourself. 

For example, on my own project.

Beyond the lessons from the projects themselves, building a business that’s efficient, diversified, and focused on the luxury market has been a game-changer.

We had a flip where we were doing a complete gut renovation.

Off market deals usually have nonrefundable deposits and a clunkier process that isn't as suited for out of state people until they have good contacts in the area to evaluate the property (mostly contractors that feel comfortable evaluating projects for you).

You'll either need to write and mail a check or call and pay with a card if they are set up for that.Is it for a contractor who is doing a renovation that will be 30k?

For instance, structuring investments through a European company that acts as the buyer of the properties and handles renovations could be an effective solution.

@Chris Kay it depends what level of renovation you are doing!

Maybe you help manage the property for them for a small %, or give sweat equity for small cosmetic renovations?