I did lend money in Canada as a HML and that worked out.. as not only did I make my return I made a very nice delta on the exchange rate arbitrage IE when I made the loans the Loonie was quite low when I got paid off the loonie had jumped 10%.. but I am not an expert or a currency trader .. just a little one man HML er.. picking nice little loans in the Okanogan. but what I did not realize also in Canada the default process is not where as friendly as the US.. ergo being the bank in Canada you take on some risk that is not present as a US lender on US assets.

We get excited when a new business opens and we are still hoping that one day they'll put in that elusive Trader Joe's in nearby Auburn :-)The service sector is a large employer.

Trader Joes, Sprouts, Whole Foods tend to be in the better neighborhoods.

(In general) it is just as hard work to "make a killing" in real estate as stocks, as commodities as a bond trader as... 

Learning to become a profitable day trader is the best remote work one can have.

She did babysitting, earned $7,000 and purchase a co-op in Los Angeles with another Japanese girl.

that's a good point of houses sitting idle.there is a stretch of ocean front in Honolulu... were a Japanese billionaire bought about 20 ocean front poperties all in basically a row.. and never really used any of them they just sat there rotting.he got In a little twist with Japanese gov over tax's and was forced to finally sell..

I was wondering because of the "trader status" if you sell too much real estate if it's better to put the word Apartments or Rentals in the name instead of a generic nameLike Outback Apartments LLC instead of Just Outback LLC so it shows that your 'intent was to hold it long term'.

Similar Japanese minivans were twice that.Pickup trucks are less awesome when you can't lock up what's in there or it rains.

I think it was Paul Allen that funded that lengthy search for a missing Japanese battleship.