The more broad your education/licensing/certification on your resumé, the more opportunity.

If they are being honest the other half of the info should be provided as well and then the seller can make an educated decision.

I am looking to do similar and am in the process of educating myself on Japanese Real Estate to do some multi-family investing (to house hack at first, and grow a portfolio beyond). 

When you can find 'good deals' on a regular basis, you are set.Going to some REIA meetings will get you in the mood to invest, but get some education.

Lately been reading up on real estate investing because 1) I want to start building up my personal equity 2) the idea of investing in real estate excites me.I'm currently researching residential properties in the EU that I could buy but I figured why not leverage my marketing background in order to learn more about the real estate market.

However, I am really looking for deals that utilize lower or no leverage acquisition strategies. 

IRS does not allow any transaction between IRA and disqualified person, all transactions must be “arms length”.If you decide to use leverage in your IRA the loan must be non-recourse, you are not allowed to use conventional financing because it requires personal guarantee.

If you have no clue on what you are doing, spend the money and time you otherwise would have on creating an LLC towards getting an education on the correct way to put a property under contract. 

Once you've achieved that added value, you can take that to a bank and do a cash out refi which will return a substantial portion of your investor's capital.It's the value add leveraged by the power of the cap rate that really makes you your money.

You can leverage your time to work on SEO - but in DMM - you're capped by your financials.