Team up with a CPA (Certified Professional Accountant) that specializes in Real Estate taxes.

You want a surgeon that specializes in the kind of surgery you need, not a general practitioner.

Do you need the cash flow now to supplement your income or are you looking for more of an appreciation play?

If you have a below market rent for a good tenant, but have to place a new tenant that inherits the rent base of the existing tenant then you are supplementing a new tenant of unknown quality.In part due to rent control, reduced rents even on non-commercial MF (4 units and less) does affect the value of the property if you need to exit for any reason. 

I know that some people with long term special needs family members like a sink in the bedroom. 

If the association was good, they would have that cash on hand to cover the expense, but a lot of them don’t, so you would get a demand called a special assessment for $10,000 to cover your share.

FHA is a special program to help people accomplish the home ownership.

And example, I was selling a house and a buyer found out that I had 2 special needs children. 

Feel free to DM ME for any referrals to; accountants, attorneys, lenders etc. who specialize in working with foreign real estate investors.

I sent you a PM with some info on a specialized Heloc with more staying power and longer access to equity.