Experience with alternative asset classes (private equity, crypto, etc.), tax strategies, and international diversification strategies is a bonus.The main reason I'm looking for an advisor at this time is to help make managing my money a scientific process rather than an emotional one. 

I honestly thought wholesaling was a great pathway into REI with using very little capital to start and it may be but I have chosen a different route since then. 

I love the place, & really want it (if i'm chosen to be the tenant), so what advice would you give me if I were to proceed?

I agree with the other comments that you should learn as much as you can about your chosen business. 

I just feel like you have way more control over real estate than the stock market or gold or crypto, and you can’t have it in cash.

Free advice: If you're going to purchase a property using any crypto currency, liquidate it at least TWO months before applying for a loan! 

Built into the paperwork, signed at closing, reads the fine print as to whether the lender has chosen a 5-year balloon or a 5-year loan reset.If an investor chooses a balloon payment, this means that he or she will be getting a new loan at the end of the 5-year period.

I think there would be danger if you keep hard asset transaction into crypto-like transaction.

I always try to work with what I have first before I think about painting brick, and a lot of the time it's not the brick that's objectionable but the colors that were chosen to go along with the brick (like in this post).

I found bigger pockets through a podcast rabbit hole starting with stock investing, then crypto investing, and then podcasts on learning, knowledge retention, then learning faster and more compact, then growing your personal net worth, then real estate, then moved to youtube podcasts then found an audiobook recap of David Green's Long distance real estate investing and then finally Bigger Pockets.