Get back to the basic, get more education, and for goodness sake operate business properly.The gurus teaching all the weird ways of doing real estate don't make money doing what they teach, they make all their money selling you a THEORY.

Basically 125/70.  

Perhaps I didn't formulate my question very clearly in my original post, but it's basically: if terms are "good" for Americans, and "****" for non-Americans, is there something "in between" for foreign nationals partnering up with a creditworthy American?

Once you get a piece of property under contract, then you're outsourcing all of the entitlement work to experts and basically managing that part.  

Basically, you are convincing your inner doubter that you can do it. 

If you buy that property, the first position comes with it. we have a property where we are foreclosing from 2nd in florida and we have had 4 bidders bid and bail, but we get to keep their deposit which basically has paid what we paid for the note.

The value for us was basically paying 3k/month for a project manager, which we built into our reno costs and fit our model.  

With your 50k you are probably in that 300 to 400k range with 5 percent down and I would want the other unit to rent high enough that rent minus PITI minus a basic maintenance reserve gets your out of pocket housing cost close to break even or under about 500 a month while you learn.

Most cost seg firms will give you a free estimate if you share basic property details - no commitment needed.For residential STR properties in the $500k-$1M range, check out room42.io - they're built for this exact use case and the cost is low enough that you can run studies on multiple properties to dial in your estimates without breaking the bank.

Instead of focusing on the basic fundamentals: buying good properties, managing expenses, maintaining the asset, and operating responsibly, people are drawn into strategies and systems that make the process seem far more complex than it needs to be.