While I did look into the PM, local market, and was able to visit the property after closing, it was not to the degree of how closely I looked into RTR. 

Preliminary experience stemming from construction as a young adult to gaining my degree in law.

Over the past decade, the death rate has risen from 10.192 in 2014 to 11.119 in 2025. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/ITA/ita...Italy is in a unique position, where all the youth are either leaving for college, or once they get their degree, they leave Italy to go take jobs in other EU countries. 

I will be graduating from college with an accounting degree in May of 2025.

If you plan to use cash to finance your acquisition and rehab expenses, this will help minimize risk exposure to a certain degree.

My background is in Social Work, with a Master's degree.

If this is not something you're interested in delving into and learning to a high degree, then investing in publicly traded REITs would be another good option for you, which have historically returned about 13.5 per cent Per year over the past 50 years (1977-present), beating the US stock market by two per cent and even beating private real estate investing by 4 per cent (that's compared with the average real estate investor, not the experts here at Bigger Pockets).

Good luck on the deal but make sure you know ALL of the costs before you lock it in as it can easily make a great deal look 180 degrees differently.

Also, you should focus on getting your degree before purchasing.

I’m in northern New Hampshire where we regularly get to -20 degrees during January and February.