All Forum Posts by: Ricardo Van Kruisbergen

Wow..seriously amazed by your responses. What a community here. Thank you! Each one of you for taking the time and effort to give me some advice and thoughts. This is already helpful. I’m going to do more homework and see what the exact steps i need to take to buy a property. Will for sure look at all the info here. Getting excited to see things could be possible with this budget. I might reach out to you guys soon! 

Hey everyone,

I'm Ricardo from the Netherlands and starting my first investment adventure. Since my wife is American we're looking into the options to possibly start investing in the USA instead of here in Europe. (also to start building something in the USA in case we would like to move there one day)

She grew up in Dayton(centerville) Ohio and still has family there. It would make sense for us to start exploring in that area. The question that I have is what would be possible for lets say 150-200k dollars to get started? What would a good first step assuming we can't/won't use any financing since we don't have US incomes, or are there still ways for financing? 

And what would be the things needed and take into account to buy a first rental property?

I have been doing research(and will do a lot more here on biggerpocket now) but since I'm not familiar with US real estate and the ways to go I Thought I would ask you experienced guys for some thoughts and advice. Anything is welcome to get a better idea. Thanks!