I come to the US by way of Sydney, Australia and London, UK and my wife is a US native.

Here in Australia we have a site called airtasker.com.

:I prefer low-income areas because I can purchase homes there on my credit cards when I've already used up all my cash and equity lines hahaI actually maxed out and withdrew cash on credit card once to pay for rehab on a property in Australia$15,000 lollolLuckily sold for profit not too long after lol

My family consisting of myself, my wife and 2 ankle biters live in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.

we all agree that market is high so we need to be more careful in analyzing deal ... but no one knows about market correction time frame... you can study Canada, Australia market... they are keep going up since last 15 years... that can happen to US..?

But because Australia has an estate tax treaty with the U.S., the estate was not subjected to double (estate) taxation & we had adequate Life Insurance in place to cover any & all costs including taxes.Here is the IRS take on it….http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats-Nonresident-Alien-Estate-Tax-Study-Metadatagood luck

I moved to the US from Sydney, Australia around 2 years ago and the median house price there is $650,000 now.I don't want to blow wind up my own a.. but after living in a very decent area in Sydney my whole life, there is a certain standard in place of where I would like to live and where I wouldn't.My family and I are just in the process of moving into a B class area of Toledo (my perception of B class).

I'm blown away that you are investing in NZ, Australia and the US!

I'm in Australia and I really really hate this place, The ' Goal ' of Moving to America is both hard if not impossible to do legally.Granted I'm sure there's special Exceptions for billionaire investors, but not for starting out Aussies.Regardless gotta keep a positive mindset, I've done enough schooling to apply for the lotto so its in Gods hands now.

Thats not enough seasoning time You could pull equity from Australia and use it to buy here I've done that two times using family members line of credit back in Aus