house hacking is great start, that's how i started in the business. would love to connect

Quote from @Simone Montague-Jackson: You can house hack with up to four units.

I'm interested in understanding how the LP structure works for foreign investors.

Now, you need to figure out how to find deals and pay for them.

If you pay more, you won't meet your metrics and will probably have negative cashflow and/or equity.You may have to make 10, 20 or even 100 offers to get one accepted at the price that meets your numbers.This is what all investors did BEFORE the Great Real Estate Crash of 2008-2010.

Quote from @Mike Levene: contractors should give exact quotes, come in give you a full detailed list of how much it will be to cost for labor and materials broken down.

How many people are in your “sphere of influence” that will use you to buy or sell without needing to pay for marketing? 

Happy to meet up with you and share my many years experience as an investor and networking with other investors and parting my wisdom.

After 45 + years as a real estate investor, broker, lender, fund manager and syndicator, I’ve become aware that the “dream” of many investors and investor “hopefuls” is to be able to generate enough cash flow to live off their real estate holdings and accumulate enough wealth to make “work” optional.

Final thought is to make sure switching lenders doesn't blow a contingency and sink the closing that way.