I've chosen not to reinvest dividends and they are directly deposited into my bank account each month.

Align your chosen strategy with your financial goals and risk tolerance.

There is also the lending field which is quite lucrative if your more into financecommercial real estate if some day you want to be doing bigger deals and making 6 figure commissions checks.. etc etc.to try to start your business as a flipper or wholesaler is tough and it has a 95% failure rate being that it appeals to the mass's of which many frankly don't have the skills to succeed or the financing behind them.OR converselyMake money at your chosen profession save and buy and hold.. buy the best you can hold for long term.. same with buying securities .

And I didn't even dive into the construction aspect and knowing what works and doesn't work for a chosen submarket. 

Not sure if you have solidified/chosen a lender yet, but BP has a list of reccomended DSCR lenders that I think would be great for you to check out.

FHA has no guidelines specifically providing conditions where Bitcoin could be recognized as an acceptable source for funds to close.The way I read this, Coinbase (or the chosen cryptocurrency clearing house) would need to fully comply with every single thing that Bank of America and Fidelity does to verify your identity, and then issue regular normal vanilla bank statements (if you have to use the word "but..." to argue for how the thing is a bank statement, it's probably not a bank statement), which they currently do not (hours spent on customer service, clicking around my account & the borrower's account, etc etc). 

Chosen toolsb.

I would actually recommend using the agent finder for the market your looking to get started in to find you an agent that specializes in out-of-state investors in your chosen market.

Even if you can in your chosen market get a STR worthy property you will be on the lowest barrier to entry segment. 

You've chosen a good market to potentially invest in.