Dan makes a great point - you want to be clear of any areas that are working on limiting the ability to rent OR cap your rental potential.

I’m looking for ideas of how to do this, and any advice on how to protect my primary property along with paying low taxes. 

It’s not a bad idea just depends how much effort and $ you want to put in.

I am looking forward to connecting to people with similar goals and trading ideas and strategies.  

I’m brainstorming ideas on how I can market myself to potential mentors in the STR game in order to gain experience.

Originally, I felt limited by conventional lending DTI.

Hi Mikey, investing in the US is a great idea, but it's really important to work with a great team.

.: The hate for wholesalers on BiggerPockets is insane when there are still genuine, good wholesalers out there who aren’t selling a dream.There are good wholesalers out there, but unfortunately, there are also a lot who have no idea what they're doing and some that are just scammers. 

How about a sales contract with contingencies but with a limit where the buyer can only terminate the contract if their find material defects exceeding a certain dollar amount.

If you were the Tenant you would want to be doing what you can to help limit the amount of money that they owe.