It always underperforms the market, primarily due to the investment asset mix that includes long-time dogs such as international investments.

Also you can get free business cards and hit reia groups and real estate offices looking for flippers or other intern type opportunities.

Anyone have any suggestion for international skip tracing?

(side note: the company no longer requires theemployee to sell or rent out their house, probablydue to too many problems such as ours)The Property Manager (company)We chose this PM since he was recommended by aneighbor who took an international assignment (asdid we) and was satisfied with the service hereceived.

I intern on Main Street and they are slowly making progress on the 500 block.

@Mark NeigerI would first resolve the internal conflict of not having nearly enough time to devote to finding a value-add deal vs. trying to find a value-add deal.

That manager was fired from that company and a new one came on board and said we did not need to rebalance but suggest some internal changes but by that time the worst of winter was past and spring had sprung.

Numerous academics and financial scientists have proven that stock pickers underperform their respective indices. 

Thanks for the info, I would assume the appraisal would be "as is" condition, the bank came up with their own value from their internal valuation system, but this was thrown off because the house was bank owned and I bought at a big discount.

hi and Welcome,I came from Canada in 2007 and the hurdles as an international investors are tremendous.... first you need to get an immigration Visa, get your social number and even that, at the beginning I could not even put electricity, water, insurance and gas on my houses, even if I was willing to give them $1000 deposit...