My initial thought here was seller finance, as @Ryan Irwin mentioned!

And maybe in 20 years when the property sells it could be taxed differently, but not sure since it was initially a primary home. 

My initial instinct is to wait for the results of these two efforts, as your asset protection efforts seem to depend on them.

I do understand real estate is not a " passive" investment and does take hands on work with regards to even managing a the property manager.My initial thought was/is (given my current status) that the optimal strategy would be to look into turnkey properties to get started and once I move back into the states get into/invest in more areas of real estate investing.  

While I secured the initial financing for the property, I have two other partners/groupings (a total of 6 people) that are contributing to the closing. 

Details here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/1214849-dmv-...I recommend checking them all out initially, I bet you'll have a lot of fun networking!

Purchase price: $500,000 Cash invested: $100,000 Buy and hold multi-family property initially house-hacked prior to purchasing the single family in the burbs.

I wanted to learn about mobile homes and parks, but it came off as a big hype session with lots of people from the same funnel marketing company.

I took a few weeks off, but quicl update here: I took a few L's on options and going to give that a few week break.my current initiative for June is finding and attending a real estate investor networking event every week!

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