I have an international friend that flips in the Netherlands and Spain.

My market area is Medicine Hat AB.

I recently moved back to the U.S. after almost two decades working in international development and entrepreneurship across the African continent, from co-founding a tech-enabled logistics company in Ghana to negotiating public-private partnerships for infrastructure investments in Senegal.

Whether you spend time networking, reading books, watching videos or connecting on bigger pockets or if you spend cash hiring a mentor, maybe partnering up with or doing free intern work for a real estate investor; whichever route you decide to go investing in yourself is one of the best investments you can make. 

For the record - I am an international investor.

Offer your services as an "intern". 

If it's in the restricted zone (within 31 miles of the coast or 62 miles from an international border, you have the choice between using a bank trust and paying the fees mentioned above or using a Mexican corporation and bearing the costs of establishing and maintaining  the corporation.

I haven't researched international STR.

If the PMC isn't hiring, offer to work as an intern. 

and we carry insurance to protect from those situations but unfortunately there are horror stories and tragedies that happen in medicine.