Here are some popular skiptracing platforms and websites that investors often use:TLOxp: This is a service by TransUnion and offers a comprehensive database to find detailed personal records.Spokeo: Useful for basic information and sometimes provides email addresses and phone numbers.Whitepages Pro (now Ekata): Offers identity verification data, including phone numbers, addresses, and more.BeenVerified: This service aggregates information from various sources, giving you phone numbers, email addresses, and other details.PeopleFinders: Similar to BeenVerified, it pulls from various sources and provides detailed reports on individuals.BatchSkipTracing: Designed specifically for real estate professionals.

Build a team of professionals, network with investors, and mitigate risk by screening tenants, having proper insurance, and having reserves.

It is important that you hire professionals who have experience working with foreign investors.

Prioritize cleanliness, appealing furniture and decor, being pet friendly, appealing to your market, professional photography, great customer service, and great reviews.

Lots of decent YT videos as well.There is no (or little) value in having a RE license just for your own use as an investor, and the costs of maintaining it like a full-time professional are higher than you would think.

In areas that are very tourist-desirable, like coastal/beachfront resorts in FL tiny homes can provide an alternative to higher priced hotel rooms and attract a younger clientele that is not looking to book the large (sleeps-12-at-a-time) condos.

It's a scummy thing to be doing and I personally couldn't do it and sleep well at night.

We have a 4br with unbelievable views and a theater room that sleeps 12 that is at $63,000 gross with most of the busy fall season and major holidays not yet booked. 

Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Disclaimer – I am an instructor pilot in the Navy and not a real estate professional – so take everything with a grain of salt.