@Jarrod Suire Awesome to hear man - my realtor does some investing himself which is awesome - and I've ran into some coworkers offshore that have a few rentals.

The banks that I currently deal with in the U.K. and off-shore do not offer competitive rates for U.S. property.

The next step higher would be to have the holding LLC owned by an asset protection trust with an offshore component.This system has its drawback as it will create some issues for refinancing and will also need a good bookkeeping and operating practice to make sure that you use all these entities in the right way.

I do sell a lot of the burb investments to my off shore buyers because that is what they want, but I like inner city more. 

For me personally - I work offshore in the oilfield around half of the year 24/7 on-call (I am straight-up not available for weeks out of the year)- I thought about self managing over and over - there is no great/predictable way to do it (especially starting out).

House prices are flat in general since 2015, there was a net negative migration (or close if i remember correctly) in 2020, and the key driver of the economy is in roughly the same place as North American automobile manufacturing was in the last 25 years, long term decline in jobs, reduced wages, and substitution from cheaper offshore options.If you subscribe to a deep contrarian approach, go for it, maybe we are at the worst and it can only get better.

I run and scale my entire business using offshore VAs, it’s amazing:https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

Either manage yourself or do what I do and outsource to offshore virtual assistants

I ran into the same issues that you did… self managing is great, but you need help in order to scale and grow your businessSo now I’ve got people offshore managing my properties at a very high quality for a fraction of the cost, something worth considering.Mine can set door codes, message (or call) guests, schedule cleaners, adjust the thermostat, monitor my cameras, & call a plumber just as easily as a local PM can, for 1% of the costThey handle everything themselves and rarely need to get me involved in anything, it is the perfect hands off low cost operationI wrote much more about leveraging offshore assistants in this post here.

(for example: the Offshore Trustee may lease a car for the beneficiary, rent a home or pay credit card bills of the beneficiaries.