@Alyssa ODell I agree with others, you have additional challenges when you are overseas, but many people overseas do use established turnkey teams to buy SFR in the US. 

You're joining a well established community of like minded folks. 

So my business partner and I started working on it and had some friends come over thinking it would get done faster, but they didn’t have any skin in the game so the care and concern painting, flooring, etc they had wasn’t the same as ours.

It is up to him to collect whatever share his roommate and him worked out.Before that I always hated when one roommate would pay, the other would get behind and then the blame game began about who owes me what.I could just see that happening by putting two people down as responsible for payment. 

I'm sure this particular tenant knows how to "play the game" and after 10 years of being there, this is likely not a coincidence.Thanks!

Now I currently try to connected investors to their next asset(s) in hopes of closing a major deal so i can start putting skin in the game and start building my asset portfolio as well.        

Especially if you are new to the game.

Currently building a team, I want to establish a relationship with a hard money lender so I can act when I find a property. 

I would be interested to see what MI and OH notes are doing these days.back in the day the bigger players would not even bid on those notes  :)  I don't play in that sand box other than with commercial banks that call me on one off's.. and its has to be a smoking deal for me to knowingly go into a bad situation up front.. that's why I recommend talking to those that do it for a living have their systems in place etc etc.. in my mind small mom and pop investors take a huge risk trying to play the NPN game .. and would be better off finding nice performing notes.. but that's me.

Here is what you do: establish a value for his lot - that is his basis.