We pay a few hundred dollars for a professional quality pitchbook with the financials and that has been money well spent.

This is usually the lender who wants to guarantee they can get paid if the LLC has no money and you still do. 

calm down you will get your money and no one is going to pay your interest. 

"I would have never suspected giving somebody who has no money and no experience to buy real estate would not get returned"Clearly Chris Knows giving money to such a person is stupid.

I'd be in one heck of a situation if I had all of my units go vacant for a month or two, and expect to have that money to pay expenses...and no safety net.However, what if you could take your side of the equity and find your feet. 

Just draw out any unused funds from your hard money loan before ordering the payoff. 

My team of three young kids that like to earn money for simple yardwork and my supportive wife are just the start of my team. :)  I am hoping to network with all relevant professionals in the field...especially like minded investors in my local area.

It currently seems I’m not going to be coming back to the states anytime soon (given the upcoming projects within the next 3-4 years) but would really appreciate any advice on investment rental property strategy as so to start building the foundation for generational wealth/passive income.We have saved a substantial amount of money  for which the original intent was to buy our future primary residence with all cash if/when we moved back to the states.However, that’s not what’s going to build generational wealth and would rather put that money into passive income investments hence, real estate rental properties.

Too many entrepreneurs make good money each year but pay Uncle Sam 35-50% of it.It takes a long time to build a massive wealth snowball when 1/3 to 1/2 of your snow gets chopped off each year.Real estate can help with this.The best model I've seen is:1.

Worst case you can transfer the money from the current custodian into Fidelity and back and forth it would just create work for you and possible wiring fees....