You can find a rental property and secure it via conventional loan or dscr, either way both you’ll need around 20%, and let it do its thing until you get back stateside.

Essentially, there must be a paid parking footprint in the area already.The ideal asset would cashflow from day one with the ability to add value via technology, operations improvements, and/or NN lease addition (or renegotiation). 

The way our bookkeeping firm does this is via a manual journal entry dated the last day of the month the transactions actually occurred for your properties via your PM.

I've co-owned property with family for nearly a decade while also doing tech stuff while living in the Bay.Currently focusing my efforts on house hacking via tenants in common (aka house hacking with friends) and have also been looking in SF and Tahoe.Happy to connect sometime if you're up for it.

If there is one you would need to take into consideration the effects of the costs associated with that vs. your new savings via the lower interest rate.

Searching and putting LOI on commercial deals through buyers brokers (or directly via listing broker)2.

Somebody is getting married so slaughter a goat as part of the feast, in your apartment, your 2nd floor apartment, and then wash the gut's and gore into hallway via a hose tapped to kitchen faucet to "clean up", the CARPETED hallway, carpeted apartment......

. :)  but my equity share is controlled via debt or direct ownership. 

@Warren Barton a PMC should pay the legal owner of the property OR that owner's lega representative.If the properties are in your personal name, to have the PMC pay your LLC, you'd need to name your LLC as your legal representative and provide acceptable documentation to the PMC directing them to pay your LLC.They'd then 1099 your LLC via its EIN.

I collect my rent via cash app.