It's possible you could work part-time/intern in a real estate office or escrow company to learn about marketing or transactions and learn the ropes without having to put down cash for the courses & licensing.

How do you know "3 weeks or so" is long enough to clear an international draft.

Perhaps you can intern with a more experienced investor or be a bird dog or wholesaler until you learn more of the business and use those deals to build cash.

(Though many of his fixes are over the top).House Hunters International.  

So we see internal reports of where leads are coming from - sorry, not a public source.The funny thing about the Charlotte area is we've occasionally gotten waves of calls from out there from people who claimed they saw our TRUCKS or our BILLBOARDS etc etc and we didn't have anyone advertising in that market!

Is it illegal in some states to record conversations without telling all parties when the recording is only for training purposes internally?

These sound like questions for a tax attorney perhaps one specializing in international tax law... contact your local BAR association for recommendation and you will get a deep discount for the first 15 to 30minutes.

They did not camera the internal lines because they said they were too small for their camera.

You need to take an internal survey so to speak of your personal net worth.

Hi @Dennis Cordero not sure about local VA's (costly) but sites like freelancer and elance are good places to find international VA's with our same time zone.