Quote from @Chris Magistrado: Hope this thread isn't completely dead, but I wanted to weigh in my views for investing in Italy.I've been living here for almost 2 years now, and have been spending time trying to understand the market more.

So many of the builds I've visited, some multiple times, seem to be frozen in time: the homes are dried-in (roof paper, windows and doors), tiled floors, drywall installed, and then a dead-stop.

However when it publishes to websites for marketing it isn’t obvious that I’m renting rooms not an entire house so I get a lot of dead leads.

The first loan applications we entered to the portal had errors, but could not be deleted, even by staff, and could only be labeled, literally, as dead.

I started at age 20, dead broke with no experience but hungry with lots of time on my hands. 

The first loan applications we entered to the portal had errors, but could not be deleted, even by staff, and could only be labeled, literally, as dead.

@Sohail Kaisar @James Wise is dead on.

It's not free government money being given to careless, loafing, dead end residents.

However, when peeling back the layers I find myself at dead ends time and time again. 

Congrats getting started - advice, are you dead set on investing in NYC?