From my comfy armchair, I can see how today’s situation in Kiev - far enough removed from the war areas, and being the economic and cultural center - could be attractive to those who know their way around the local bureaucracy to not have to pay an “overhead” under the table at every turn.I can see how the deeply devalued Ukrainian currency can make the purchase potentially even more attractive.

In the DC area they devalue your property.

Like I said, those in the know can predict these events, go to cash right before it happens and buy up the devalued assets right after the crash.

Most have no skills and the resulting work will devalue your property resulting in additional cost for th einvestor to undo their work.

They say it'll be a hassle and devalue their homes.

All they are really doing is saving the prevailing mortgage interest rate (at best) at the cost of devaluing the income on the property.

Your purchase  costs would be gone , sales costs gone  and even possibly the home Devalued .Most of the time landlords wont allow subleases and will likely not allow Airbnb .

This will likely lead to you being blocked by the Co-op board from purchasing any additional units due to the fact that turning the Co-op into a rental building will devalue everyone else’s units.

Especially since the airlines / hotels are known to devalue their awards charts. 

I'm not trying to discredit or devalue what you guys do, definitely worth every penny.With this property I fully intent to use engineered plans in the future as I build self storage and boat & RV buildings.