@John Barry and @Natalie Vane here is the article from legal council that I use in Florida, hope you find it helpful.

I have written extensively about this in a couple of BP blog articles that you mind find interesting, starting with: Have I Found the Holy Grail of Passive Real Estate Investing?

This news just sparked my interest:http://www.reuters.com/article/us-paraguay-brazil-...There are many foreign industries, mainly from Brazil, that settle in Paraguay to produce goods and later export those products to their own country.

In this article it says that the total cost is at $70,000.

I don't know what state you're in but I found this article through the Texas Association Of Realtor and they have the following to say in a similar situation..........."

From other postings, it seems that using a Home (or other) Line of Credit is an extremely popular way of coming up with the deposit needed to keep investing.

Any advice, book or article recommendations?

@Cody Barrett , I'm really glad you're asking these questions.I wrote an article for the BiggerPockets Blog about  Emotional Support Animals .

to be a popular place for guests and investor competition so you can do better by dominating the niche you select.  

I tripped over this article the other night, which sums up a lot of what I've been thinking about REI lately: Investing in Real Estate Won't Build Massive WealthI think there are some pretty obvious omissions or flaws in it, most notably that the author is looking at ten years as an unbearable amount of time to build "massive" wealth, but that it also hits on some very important points.