One of the sponsors I've connected with sells almost all his stuff to Japanese cash flow investors and those will probably not show up on the MLS.

One has to do with dollars outside the United States coming back to the United States, and the other has to do with another currency that decides to go bargain shopping.Let's say you are Japanese, and you have both dollars that you earned in a foreign investment, and yen available to also make an investment.

The Japanese market has been worthless for over twenty years now (except for the ski resorts), so do you expect to buy from a distance?

My fantastic Japanese tenant moved out last week.

it can still be done but you need to really be sharp .... and of course its harder now that the Japanese export log went from 1200 MBF to 700MBF.. not as much gross revenue per acre as the good ole days.

I don't see the Japanese economic model (stagflation) as an equivalent to the USA for many reasons.

With the BOJ taking interest rates negative and for a variety of other reasons the Japanese people, at some point, have to become leery of JGB's.  

But if you act now, you can get my course on Real Estate Ethics for 3 easy payments of 199.99 and I will throw in a Japanese knife set ;)

Well, I remember there was a thread a couple of days ago, started by a UK investor, about a property management problem she had with her property in Detroit.I just happened to find out that a friend of mine (really, not me as I do not have any interest in investing in Detroit) got caught in a similar scam targeting at foreigners.My friend is a Japanese citizen like myself who bought a duplex through another Japanese agent working in the Detroit market.When he bought the property at $25,000, the duplex had two units occupied and rent paid for $450 each.The agent said that this property was located in a nice, strong rental area so it should be rented out quickly and claim a same or similar rent amount even if current tenants moved out.Well, soon after he purchased the property, one tenant stopped paying rent so he had to evict him.

@Michael Borger   Japanese Owned unit ???