I live in Boston, but I was advised to start my real estate business elsewhere as Boston is very competitive.

Is it on a busy street, does it have a view, etc..

Busy street 2.

@Jonathan Blanco If you’re worried about $3000 in fees you’re in the wrong business.

Looking to get into some smaller apartment buildings in the near future.As far as the difficulties of investing in Japan, I of course agree with everything said, but in my case I'm at near-native fluency and own and manage my own business separate from anything real estate related so even without permanent residency I've never had trouble getting a loan (except of course I can't get some govt backed ones like a primary residence mortgage) for business or investing.I'll try to get in touch with everyone local to よろしくお願いします。

Everyone was on bottled water for months.You may want to ask for proof that Flint is growing or attracting business investments.Now Detroit is an entirely different story!

The returns would then be distributed to investors, who would declare them as income in the U.S. under their country’s tax laws.I run a flipping business in Europe, working with foreign investors, including Americans.

Most of these course instructors aren't qualified to teach anything but the most elementary real estate concepts and try to make their courses more marketable by teaching concepts they have no business teaching. 

Everyone is transaction based.  

I love learning ideas to make my business better from other local investors.