Yes, I'm aware that 50k is not a huge investment by any means, but a ballpark figure to start with investing abroad.This initial investment will help me and my business partner establish a hands on 'feel' of offshore investment structure, taxation, financing and so on, alongside partnering with someone local.

I would expect the respective governments to put limitations on offshore balance transfers which might halt less sophisticated investors from moving money out of native accounts and into the US. 

Hire an offshore VA to implement2) Field Labor: many real estate agents are seeing business slow and will soon be "starving".

And NO lender puts the loan proceeds directly into your account.. the funds are sent through an escrow either an attorney state escrow or an escrow in a state were the title and escrow company handles the funds. these things are just out there to scam those who are not really familar with how HML or private lending works.Glad you posted you wont lose your 1.5 %   once they get that in the door then they start hammering you for more money and more money until they bleed you dry and they never fund because they are NOT REAL .. thinks of all those scammers sitting in Bangladesh or other off shore areas.

Are there any offshore angles:- Is there potential for overseas sales or operations?

A more sophisticated approach that you might want to use in the future is to set up an LLC in the state where the property is located but have the LLC owned by a parent company located offshore.

Running a successful STR comes down to 3 Ps: pics, people & pricing.1) Decorate your house nicely & pay a professional photographer to take some amazing pics2) Hire amazing people - cleaners, handyman, recruit some neighbors to help fill in the gaps, & self-manage or hire an offshore VA to manage the property if you'd rather make yourself rich instead of making a local property manager rich (more on that here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/... )3) Price fiercely to maximize profits not occupancy (they're not the same thing).

If your buying for fishing and boating you need to keep that in mind in certain places if you have plans to ever go offshore.

Either self-manage like many on here do, or hire an inexpensive offshore PM who works US hours & speaks eloquent English (that’s what I do).

Honestly, when I’m making decisions like this, I find a few comparable properties on Airbnb in each location & pay my offshore assistants to track these properties every day for the next few months & record how much $$ they’re making.