if you can get a contractor to accompany you when you tour homes, that will help determine costs (pay them accordingly). 

Or if you find a flipper you can trust and are more interested in learning on this first deal than making money (which is also a decent strategy), then bring them in to look at the property under the condition that if they buy it you get to "ride shotgun" on the deal all the way through to learn, and they may or may not toss you a small "bird dog" fee for turning them onto the deal.One other option, if you can get it for that (or a bit more, say around $400k) and finance it under a traditional loan, could you comfortably afford the mortgage payments?

Get a JOB in RE to earn while you learn and build investment capital. 2 birds, 1 stone.

The hope being that your wife will be allowed to accompany you into the Embassy for the purposes of the transaction.If that is not an option, then your only option is to be removed from the title.

Lastly, if you mean virtually in that you want bird dogs on the ground who can find and negotiate contracts you find a way to dispose of those contracts then that might work.

I'd recommend suggesting that they read books, listen to podcasts, analyze deals and network with investors to ask how they can help them...maybe as a bird dog. 

Recently, I've been asked to be a bird dog for an investor who's out of town.

Find someone local who you can bird dog for. 

The prospective tenants would have to be less than picky and birds of a feather with the existing tenant I would think--dog people.

Immediately upon taking over (before we started hauling out the trash), we told our tenants it would be included in the rent, accompanying the notice of a rent increase.My point is, in my opinion, it is important to control the trash somehow, or it could start to control you.