Australia) we had a young woman buy an old run down building with us in the old market district.She opened an artsy 'healthy' low cal sandwich shop on the ground floor & we figured in a 'meat & potatoes, beer gut' place like Australia she would fold within the year.Believe it or not she paid off her share of the building in less than 2 years.

And just like Australia the USA market has ups and downs.

I can't imaging trying to do this from Australia.

Maybe it will never happen, or maybe it will be like Australia, recession proof for a generation.

I also just got (days ago) approved for an Australian AMEX card using my established good credit history here (I live in Australia).Now I want to use American Express's service where they facilitate an application for credit in a new country (the US in my case) using one's established credit in one's home country (Australia for me).  

-Are you keeping your SF portfolio in Australia?

Since my husband is a piano bar entertainer for a major cruise line (since 2004) and I have relatives in Australia, we travel worldwide too.

:wink: I'm a full-time investor in Australia, where cashflow positive property is virtually non-existent.

hi add me to your list.I am a commercial investor and have a group that does commercial purchasing here in sydney. when you say you could get a group that would buy a 250k comm we call that a syndicate and thats what we do here I would be very interested in the differences in the leases and the buying structuresI buy in a structure with investors and also funders and will be looking to organise funders thereif you can add me or send thru a request as I have not got a clue how to do it at this stage on this boardI understand comm and we are in the middle of buying three here at the moment 1x 6.5mi 1x 3 mil and 1x 21 mil and they are all syndicated comm dealswe are looking at doing dual investing so to invest in the US and also invest here in Australia look forward to joining

I have had tenants leave a mess behind, but fortunately none has been as bad as this tenant from Australia.