The investor seller (usually US or Canadian) usually moves out in the middle of the night after he has carefully wires all investment capital to a different offshore bank account... and leaving the investor buyers high and dry.Not much you can do legally when you have been taken advantage of in a foreign country. 

There a few options of what kind of a company you can choose, it can be either a local software dev company, in-house development team or an offshore software development company.

Running a successful STR comes down to 3 Ps: pics, people & pricing.1) Decorate your house nicely & pay a professional photographer to take some amazing pics2) Hire amazing people - cleaners, handyman, recruit some neighbors to help fill in the gaps, & self-manage or hire an offshore VA to manage the property if you'd rather make yourself rich instead of making a local property manager rich (more on that here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/... )3) Price fiercely to maximize profits not occupancy (they're not the same thing).

Either self-manage like many on here do, or hire an inexpensive offshore PM who works US hours & speaks eloquent English (that’s what I do).

I'm an engineer in the oil and gas industry, I moved to Louisiana 5 years ago for work (4 years in the Lafayette area with 1 in New Orleans in the middle).I discovered BP a couple months ago while offshore on a work project.

Keeping in mind that every month the property is held on to, he goes deeper and deeper in the hole.Holding out any longer is not investing anymore...it's speculating.If you are headed to a particular destination of great interest, in a rowboat, and about 50 yards off shore you realize the boat has a leak and is sinking...fast, you have two choices:1 - You can row faster, and bail even faster (wait, no partner in the boat, so you have to choose between those two...I suggest rowing like you've never rowed before). 

Either self-manage like many on here do, or hire an inexpensive offshore PM who works US hours & speaks eloquent English (that’s what I do).

So, basically ANY domestic or off shore irrevocable trust will accomplish the goal and act as a medicaid trust.

We are so used to hear announcement here and find out company had bad earnings, went offshore.

Something as simple as setting door lock codes can be outsourced to an offshore VA at $4/hr.