@Jose Saladin Purchasing your sister’s home as a live-in rental offers instant equity (~$170K), tax benefits, and landlord experience, making it a solid first step into real estate investing.

2) Some folks prefer to only pay interest for the money they use - which is HELOC here.

I am considering the pros/cons of doing this without a property manager or real estate agent. 

Once I get a few deals under my belt and money is more abundant, I'll also purchase Seth's training.

I agree that with one property you can just use OTA pricing tools.  5 mins a day for adjusting and you will save money and do it yourself.

From both a real estate and STR perspective, the key to success will be choosing the right market first.

My goal is to avoid doble taxation, ability to write-off expenses, asset protection and avoiding probate.If anyone can help me with this or refer to an accountant who has experience with cross border real estate transaction, I'll be greatly obliged. 

I am finally at my two year mark not being W2 so if I can skip past DSCR loans and the such that would be much preferred as I dont want to pay the fees if I don't have to as I am trying to get some money I put into each unit to renovate back out of it. 

For a BRRRR if you are using debt most people will use some sort of hard money to purchase and a construction loan to fund rehab (unless you use cash).

Maybe I'm no longer a low risk bond investor, maybe I'm parking my money in $VOO instead, CRE REITs, or perhaps higher risk higher return bonds.