And see if you can strengthen the relationship with the seller (your partner) by having open professional conversations and trying to solve any problems he has (taxes, access to cash, reinvestment of the proceeds, etc.). 

The drawback is of course the dollar, which is always strengthening and cause deprecation.

Ideally, their balance sheet will strengthen your position and increase your loan proceeds.  

I have taken decisive action to learn all that I can during the rebuilding process to help strengthen my investment muscles. 

We had tried to work with AHI to strengthen our services and unfortunately that has not been the case.

It strengthened some regulations but also eliminated legal competitions to some degree easily allowing the banks to pass the higher fees on to their customers and increase the number of customers as they have less competition.

I sounds like you're really wanting to strengthen the balance sheet.  

Lord knows there are tons and tons of already-built developments in the areas you mention, many on sale, so would have to be something really special to attract investors, and even then you're better off approaching Europeans.RE Russia, it is a good time to buy given the strengthening USD and how far the Ruble has crashed (mostly due to oil & commodity prices + the political issues around sanctions and Ukraine).

We should strengthen our local network improve our buyers/sellers list and make referrals to each other like electricians, plumbers, construction guys, etc.

The opposite is true for a strengthening against the US dollar.