I started reading another book from another author, as well as online resources, and stumbled onto Lance actually teaching and having a program to get started.

You can get documents, applications and other needs taken care of on Zillow to deal with that.   

The bank did not care to respond us.

Look in both states and you'll find cheap rural areas, but most urban/suburban areas around hospitals and universities will be around the same price.Check out the Midwest, which has been overlooked by many.As @Shawn McCormick points out, you need to be careful of getting taken advantage of with OOS investing. 

Property Management in Brazil it's relatively simple, you can use a broker (called "imobiliaria" in Brazil) which normally charge you 5% and take care of everything.Good Luck on your purchase, Fortaleza is great!

@Sadaf Mikanik you can also list on airbnb for great than 30 days but furnished finder is probably the best for getting health care workers. 

I've done a lot of reading about Ohio and Detroit.

Been trying to soak in as much information as I can through the forum and books, currently reading "Hot to Invest in Real Estate", have read, "Long-Distance Real Estate Investing", "Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth", "Rich Dad Poor Dad", and "The Book on Investing In RE with No (and low) Money Down".

After reading the realtor contract it is clear that this is a conflict of interest and that once I sign ALL will go through the realtor. 

.; many RE investors have comparatively longer time horizons, and I would assume that most RE investors have a lower tolerance for risk).I'm a RE investor, and don't have any crypto, but I have plenty of friends who hold a lot of crypto, and we've discussed crypto endlessly...At the risk of sounding like a luddite, even after years of discussions and reading countless articles, I still don't feel like I have a good understanding of crypto.  ...and frankly, I'm skeptical of people who claim to have a thorough understanding of it (yet, there are no shortage of self-proclaimed "experts" who describe crypto with the confidence of someone predicting a sunrise!)