They have to pack all of their stuff up into a container, move to Netherlands, find a school for their son, find a short-term rental, start a new job in a new country and culture, find a job for his wife, find and buy a new house in a land they have no idea where they would want to live, and generally figure things out in the next month or two. 

That’s the equivalent of sweet sixteen for young ladies in the US, except it’s celebrated at 15 (quince).

Tempe has ASU, downtown has a lot of culture and cool historic homes, Chandler is expanding employment n the tech sector ... feel free to shoot me a PM and we can discuss specifics! 

And our current culture of information overload, and consumers wanting absolutely what they want, when they want.....is making transactions much more difficult, and reinforcing the current system.

However, real estate overseas is actually very different from the US, with maybe the exception of Canada (which still has significant differences).Among other things, the legal and banking systems are oftentimes very different, as is the local investing culture (or lack thereof).As mentioned by @Joe Splitrock, there is an international forum here but there’s a lot of wrong information there, which I’ve been trying to correct whenever I encounter it.After almost 500 replies to posts related to international investing, many members have contacted me to either compliment me on the quality of my content and to ask me for further help.

D) CELEBRATE SMALL WINS - We often overlook this. 

And obviously we will continue to follow up with the owners of the property we visited last night as well the la Conchita seller.Lessons Learned:Although it is way too early to celebrate any kind of success, I am a little pleased and surprised at the results we are starting to see.

When they ask people from other countries what do they think of Americans...common responses are they are optimistic, confident, louder, friendly and shop/consume more than any other cultures.

that being said Philadelphia is where New York, Boston and D.C. money is flowing... so is the culture, restaurants, industries, etc. 

In this PC culture, it was recommended for everyone to drop that word and use "Housing Provider" going forward.Seems to make sense, which I'm going to do.