Not the distributions...generally...If it's not a partnership and your SDIRA isn't issued a K-1 (e.g. it is some kind of foreign partnership, foreign corp, etc), you should direct your initial third paragraph in your OP to your tax professional as foreign filing obligations as they relate to the US can get quite complicated and are heavily based on your individual facts and circumstances, as well as tax treaties between nations.

It almost always ends up costing you heavily.

This is a heavily regulated industry and it's not clear your friends and colleagues would have the wherewithal to participate.

Absentee lists are heavily mailed here so looking for an additional route. 

It is heavily gentrifying with 3M homes being built around the corner.

The Realtors and investors in my network rely heavily on it.

(What I have seen in my circumstance) The profit from rentals is usually heavily split in the hotels favor and goes toward your Monthly maintance first.

Your recourse probably heavily depends on where the property is. 

Since then, I've started a career in mission critical MEP design.Why am I here: in the 4 months since I've graduated, I've heavily focused on personal financial education.

I would also like to say I have been around the land assemblage with developers for awhile and also heavily on the transaction side with clients.The area I am getting into more and learning is as a developer myself with projects now.