Real Estate values, nationally, have never decreased over any 10 years. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUSFocus on optimizing active income first.

Instead of throwing your deal out to a bunch of strangers on the internet, I recommend you do your research to find a local expert with 20+ ACTIVE years in real estate in your market.

If i were active though it could have a much bigger impact.

While I could write a whole dissertation as to way, I have no appetite to enter into a kind of discussion in which too often egos become prevalent over helping one another.What I would do if I was in your position is to ask about investing in the US to somebody who actively invests there and ask about investing overseas to somebody who actively invests in Europe and the Caribbean and then draw your own conclusions.

Some things you may want to consider is how active you are looking to be in your investing.

The tenant pays a monthly premium and keeps an active bank account and credit card on file.

It is not a set it and forget it thing though, you'll still need to be active and review monthly statements and manage things to make sure everything is running smoothly. 

Full disclosure - I'm a local resident currently actively looking to move away. 

We recently purchased our "forever" home together in another county and applied for a homestead but of course we were denied because they found out we had 3 active ones in another county.

Greg makes a great point about reaching out to active brokers, those connections can be invaluable.