A house is not currency.

Tourist – Great places, same dollar currency, same “dollar” value.

oh because of issues with material coming from China which  is having currency issues due to a conflict in the middle east.....what?

Why not just keep the worlds best currency i.e Bay Area Real estate intact, defer your plans to retire and focus your future income on investment in the location of your choice.

I hate to fall victim to the fear of what banks and our currency is doing right now, but we are going to go ahead and finish our long term rental investments first and see how the banks and economy is doing, I feel as vacationers alone is going to dip a bit this year so I am going to hold off until we have a little more income source coming in from rentals first..

Other issues to keep in mind are remote, bilingual, legal and financial representation, currency exchange rates, etc.

We gave the owner exactly what she asked for and saved her costs and the embarrassment, along with helping her son find a place that worked perfectly for him.We as investors have a currency, problem solving.

At least you have to produce a W2 with 80% LTV.I think the next collapse will be due to the Fiat currency devaluation.

.:24k gross , 12k netThats about rightI have an edge, currency play.... am a foreign investor so I can tack on 40% when bringing money home

Or the other way around the devaluation of currency.