I have been buying since 2007 in Germany, now I am jumping full time into Spain, as I consider that there is a big opportunity (there are some market niches with lots of sellers and no buyers).

@Peter Grosso Peter, I have no specific experience with german banks but having bought property internationally before I have to assume that a german bank would likely only give you a mortgage for property in Germany or the euro zone.

and passed them out to random houses on my route, doubled my income in the first year-various high school jobs, racing cars, chasing girls -Air Force basic training - where the lesson behind folding and refolding socks and making your bed 100 times in a morning is NOT about how to do laundry, it's about attention to details - never forgotten-first assignment in Germany where a higher ranking NCO taught me by being genuine that you should never be too good to do the job that you ask people under you to do-started my first business at 23, grew it from $ 60,000/sales year 1 to almost $ 1,000,000 in year 5.  

Originally I'm from Germany but moved to Silicon Valley to work as a Software Engineer.About a year ago I was looking at my investments and realized that I want more diversification than just stocks and bonds could offer me.

. - Definitely can't speak German! I

Sandro and Chris,This is an old post, but I currently live in Germany as an American and have been looking at ways to buy in the states (especially foreclosure and fixer-uppers), and flip them.

I'm new to BP as well... my great grandparents from Germany and Denmark planted our family out in Elgin. 

I´m from Germany, Europe, and we don´t have this concept at all.

Just look at Japan and Germany post WWII.

Also, last week rumors were flying that bailing out Italy would cost France it's AAA rating and even Germany eventually.