@Patrick Tutwiler Good point about us being part of a large industry.

Have you purchased any properties in Europe, or will the US be your first investments?

@James Kojo  in my opinion just added the "Mic Drop" on this one.

(In a month I will have 10 conforming loans in my name only, so both of us being on the loan is not an option) I'm currently wrapping up a delayed financing refi on another property (Brown St Property) I own, and they've asked me to provide a source for the funds used to purchase the Brown St Property. 

Property tax in Portland jumped with all the levy’s and assessments that hit this year (and I don’t think that’ll stop in the future) while the city council wants to blame the homeless situation and housing crunch on landlords and have us be the only ones to foot the bill.

Shouldn't be more than about $100k but I'm worried about us being approved for a mortgage given that we're "fresh off the boat".

Both of us being in our thirties we are looking at the future and long term goals.  

I think we us being both new there was miscommunication all around. 

If I present myself as us being in this together, and give them really good info, now we're working as a team to get this done.This approach has been very successful for me (used it again just yesterday, in fact).

I just posted earlier about how we let investors or outside owners enter our parks, essentially they have to bring value to the overall park, usually by bringing brand new homes in and letting us be the property manager on them.