With your experience and possible skillset, perhaps finding a company to sponsor you for a green card may be a better option? 

We have internal funds, our passive note platform, lines of credit along with over 10 institutional capital investors that allow us to provide a variety of loan programs to fit the needs of residential investors from wholesalers to flippers to BRRRR or turnkey investors to land and residential developers.Kevin HillCEO - Aloha Capital

It could be helpful to you (lenders will want to see lease agreements) and it is good for the family member (they actually could do a program where them paying rent increases credit). 

Most wholesalers do not have the means to pay their credit card bills not to mention purchase a multimillion-dollar real estate investment.

Even more than credit, the more experience and capital you have, the more aggressive a lender is going to be.

The other part of this is that in addition to this, we are borrowing from our home equity line of credit to put down the 20% deposit- so we have that payment too.   

We use Proper but I am going to be going over all our insurance as things have been skyrocketing here in WA state ever since they did away with credit scores affecting insurance rates.Where is the STR at?

We have excellent credit and cash capital.

After all rape is just the word of the victim that it was not consensual sex, breaking and entering, well the door was already broken, every theft, every credit card fraud, well the owner said I could. 

If your asset is older and/or smaller, you may have better luck with local community banks or credit unions.