You want to "fyi" your sellers of this.I also find other banks like Option One are not the best to deal with because they've moved their customer service center to India.

Our Teak investments are for export to India/China, thus not dependent on the local economy. 

Its thanksgiving and I have spent an hour on E mail with premium title company and their off shore ( India closing personel)  they want to know why I cant wire money today  LOL.But they are going to wip up the closing docs and send them to me this morning..

No need to compete with Philipines or India for call centers and technology.Good to have a thinking cap on though.Look at this list of ready and willing helpers:https://www.google.com/search?

If the location is habitable by humans, then I'm open to invest.My second filter is that I personally need to be able to visit.That means zero Muslim countries because they don't accept Jews, especially Jews who have an Israeli stamp on their passport.The third filter would be that it must be in an area that I can conduct reasonable amounts of research on from my computer, so if there are no English resources for me to research, then the odds of buying are slim to none.I have properties on both coasts of the US, but nothing international yet.

Not a big fan of Hubzu as it seems all the administrative activities were outsourced to India thus making closings a mess.  

I work alone, but I have 3 trusted employees working for me in india since 2007.

I wanted to change that this time around but not sure how to evaluate it.Before I end, the alternative to getting a leveraged property and paying 10.5X is to let the money sit in a CD at around 9% in India. $$ is also strong at this point in time against Re.

People in Africa and India with less than a third grade education with low rainfall and desert have been able to rectify this issue.  

All Muslims are terrorists.