Best thing to do which most of them do not do is have a conversation about your goals and current income and assets.Getting your credit pulled 3-5 times can just hurt you in the long run if the lender has limited programs or extreme overlays.

We were even on the film set of The Crossover: a show made by Disney and can be seen on their streaming channel.

Can you have it automatically set the code to the last 4 of their phone number, or does in generate a random code? 

Do you have a basic set of questions that help you narrow in on what the seller needs and wants?

There is limited inventory for purchase and average market time is less than a week with multiple offers.

Sounds like a good plan - from a financing perspective, its a good idea to start researching now - for better or for worse, a lot of lenders view 1st time investors without a primary residence with a owner-occupied mortgage as a flag and might limit some options

Any contacts of a good reliable person in the area - would like to set up a relationship with them and keep them in my list of contacts for future work.  

I’d focus on trying to land this deal and getting it set up to lower your current housing payment as opposed to being able to just generate a deal that totally pays for you entirely from a duplex.

Otherwise, any foreign national without a FICO score will be limited to 65% LTC on a purchase of property on a 30-year fixed DSCR program.

In the event Sellerfails to close the sale of the subject property pursuant to the terms & provisions of this Agreement, Buyer shall be entitled topursue legal recourse for specific non-performance and shall be entitled to compensation for any costs associated with suchactions, including but not limited to escrow fees, title fees, attorney fees, court fees, etc.