I thought about getting a studio apartment (but the monthly payment difference would be $300-400 month) and I feel like renting a studio would have higher turnover + more difficulty to sell later on.Main Concerns:Am I buying before a pandemic-induced housing market crash - aka at inflated prices?

Read a bunch of BiggerPockets book as part of a course I took by Derek Moneyberg called Real Estate Riches.I live in Tokyo and want to invest in the Japanese market despite the many difficulties involved in the market here (depreciation, shrinking population, etc, deflation, etc.)I think the best way for me to get started is to buy a property in Central Tokyo and house hack, I have probably between 50k-100k liquid that I can use, but I'd like to get financing for a bigger property if possible. 

Not very difficult, I self manage also.

It's an investment that must be viewed as a business.If you invest as a hobby, your tenants and/or portfolio will suffer and that will be reflected in the difficulty you experience in doing the work.

The difficulties of that are the logistics of the transactions, the waiting period for the home being built and our ability to get approved for such a large investment.

If you do not have a HELOC already there may be difficulty finding a bank right now to do them.

You are mixing personal and business in this transaction so that is more difficult.  I

I'm almost positive she isn't up to date with technology.  

I am trying to purchase a multi family property and was curious if anyone here have faced the same difficulties.

However, real estate is considered a fairly illiquid asset since real estate transactions are typically very complex and expensive.With new technology, real estate may no longer be considered as illiquid as it once was.