There are auctions to sell cars, police auctions, tax impounded auctions, antique auctions, etc.

Quote from @Erick Pena: A "good" rental property is one that covers all expenses (mortgage, taxes, insurance, maintenance, property management fees, and any other costs) and still leave a surplus (commonly referred to as cash flow).Calculate cash flow as: Cash Flow = Rental Income − Operating Expenses − DebtThere's much more to it, but that's the basic idea.

The houses would be looking at I'd imagine would be about 7 to 800 k taxes would be about 4K hire a year.

One caution when using crypto to acquire property is being aware the tax ramifications are identical to if you converted to cash first.

Not that I'm a proponent of borrowing just for a tax break, but the interest is a deductible expense. 

Work with a lot of expats and foreign nationals in this space tax related.

This might make sense, but again, you are just deferring the taxes and now pushing tax from capital gains to ordinary income. 

I looked into this as well since I'm getting terribly bent over on my w-2 taxes. 

Is your DSCR ratio greater than 1-meaning are you cash flowing (according to the lender's criteria of mortgage, property taxes and insurance (and HOA) if applicable).

Taxes, costs, eviction complexity, etc are going to be a much bigger factor in your success than anything else.