I don't see that translating to the working class for the next couple of years.

People don't pay attention, maybe those that have pets could translate for them!

just notes and investments of a  short term nature.. plus a building business which really does not count.. its building houses and selling them.. or kind of like flipping .. not really investing.. its a business that goes with the market cycles I was going to make a pithy comment on this one but I'll let it go since humor doesn't always translate well on the web.  

It's an investment towards your REI "career", which would translate into reduced risk in future investments.

Not met a lawyer who didn't know what "subject-to" meant, but if you say "sandwich lease" that's a guru RE term, you need to translate in conventional RE terms, it's "sub-letting" they should understand that. 

This translates to 17.6% return on cash invested.the downside is that if I had to sell it would be difficult. the area is low income and with that comes management difficulties. appreciation may be anemic .

I think one of the issues that you may run into is not having experience or being able to translate your current experience into flipping.

Basically that translates to the same, higher acquisition costs discussed earlier.Good luck and thank you for your service, (sorry, can't resist), fly-boy.  

Anthony - I know you are well intentioned  but "lower income" and "moving" to towns like "Phoenix, Houston, Atlanta or Dallas" encompasses a whole LOT of factors (Economic/social etc etc) that don't translate easily to uprooting from their existing place and moving to  as you put it.  

I have no idea if any of it would translate to other countries.