This site is great if you are looking to invest into real estate, wholesaling, flipping, rentals, lending, self-directed IRA and Solo 401k investing, crypto, or tax and legal guidance.

Quick info on me: I am 30, married, stable health care job, very frugal, spend about $3000/mo combined with wife, currently at Coast FI through VTSAX and cryptocurrency, but absolutely ZERO real estate experience, including no primary residence because I have worked exclusively travel contracts. 

I'm a little surprised that he invests in cryptocurrency.

Some invest in stocks, crypto, etc.

Investing and nurturing go hand in hand and you can't be a successful investor without working at it and time becomes your currency. 

However, several years ago, last time I checked, in 2009, some banks likes HSBC, Standard Chartered has loans that allowed you to buy investment real estate in the US with very favorable interests rates, but the problem being of course that you had to play the currency exchange game.

If the RE went up 10% in dollar value, but our dollar loses 10% against other currencies, did we gain anything?

This means that the federal government is a currency ISSUER whereas you and I and businesses and states are CURRENCY USERS.

As a quasi government agency they can ask for verifications that you will never know about and at closing the borrower signs docs authorizing disclosures, lots of ways to check;Mailing address at post office, utility company, motor vehicle registration, insurance docs, bank account even your employer can report, credit cards, other debtors and more...And it's not just fannie and freddie, but any financial regulator can pull a compliance audit, state banking authorities, FDIC, CFPB, Comptroller of Currency....etc.What constitutes a residence?

We sold and had the bonus of currency exchange behind our transaction, and made a nice profit.