We purchase very nice ink pens with rubber grips from China for 6 cents plus shipping, sales tax and now Trumps's tariffs.

I'm moving to China, Maine in a few days.  

The market does get affected by trade talks between the US and China because the results of those talks could impact the business metrics I mentioned above.Sometimes Wall Street does get emotional and trade based on those emotions, even though fundamentally, the economy has not changed. 

(I have no W2s as I am working for a foreign company in China)According to my understanding, investment property mortgages require a minimum of a 20% down payment up front which is fine as I have already managed to accumulate a down payment somewhere in the ballpark of 50-60% of my max budget -- my questions are: Would it be better to take out a mortgage for the remaining 40-50% of the cost and pay it down with income over time, or to just save up the remainder and buy it outright?

China by mid-December.I expect to work on getting a meetup going and to continue working with investors as I have in Massachusetts. 

And when I got started, actually 25 years ago, it was possible because houses were 50K in bad shape where I live, so I happily did business right in my own neighborhood until China took over California and Californians began to invade Arizona, upbidding everything on the market in a buying frenzy and inflating prices so it was no longer possible to find anything worth renovating, (Come on, we ALL know that is what is happening but no one wants to admit it.), so I went to a less expensive state and renovated and rented out 3 more until now the infection of greed has taken over that state as well. 

When 1.4% of the town's population hold a real estate license, that's not much of a surprise.We're about to relocate to China, Maine and I'm looking forward to what is probably less than 1/20th the competition.

The robots in China that built a huge brick structure in 9 days was not commercially viable yet more of a demonstration but robotics will greatly change new construction.

I have a few questions regarding probate and taxes dealing with inherited properties in China.

China is making big waves on a global scale now, it will be interesting to see where that goes.