In my market, there are some very rough filters, so I don't use auto searches.

Ideally you'll pull all this money back out after the refi but you need to make sure to account for it up front so you have it available.Best,Paul

Not sure if that's ideal or not?

Ideally screening tenants who aren't just ideal for renting, but responsible enough to buy someday.

Here is an example with numbers (an ideal best case scenario):ARV: $175Kpurchase price: $90Kclosing costs (including HM interest): $10Krehab: $25KAll-In cost: $90K+$10K+$20K = $125KHard money loan (70% of ARV): $122.5K Out of pocket: $2500Once the rehab is finished and the property is rented, refinance $122.5K into 30yr fixedEnd result: $52.K captured equity with $2500 out of pocket.The rent should be above $1300

Conventional 3.5-5% down will auto convert out of PMI.

Anything above 75% ltv and it jumps into the low to mid 4s. not bad but not ideal.

I ideally value a property at 8 x annual rent. 

Ideally, I can get enough income and equity from buy and hold properties from small multi unit properties, using BRRRR strategy, that I could use a large portion of the cash I have to build the community as a passion project, so to speak.

That is definitely something I'm open to, unfortunately, I have no idea when I will be moving back to the states, so rather than wait for that I'm looking for ways I can get invested within the next year or so ideally.