Her dad left Abu a small grocery store.Chinese women at the time received no formal education.

Have the checks been cashed that they left in the drop box? 

I would suggest establishing teams in both markets and evaluating which one generates leads that align with your investment criteria.

While you can't build equity through improvements, the strategy can still be profitable if the numbers align.

@Jon Holdman  my airplane partner has gone and done this in Oregon fully licensed and approved by the CCB  https://www.relevantbuildings.com/   check it out.. his market to start is rural cabins that can be locked and left.. and he has a multi going up in St.

Or, ya know, pay someone to do all that and hope n pray there is any profit left on it for you. 

Because it seems like whenever they pass things there are always loopholes left in there, some of which are attractive to a lot of people, and some of which are only attractive to some people.

Other lien positions get what is left.

Steal Industry, auto manufacturing, the facilitating things to these like coal mining, the decapitation of these industries in the US has left a trail of devastated towns and collapsed markets who have NOT come back and have no prospects of ever coming back to there former glory as the "thing" that put them there, is gone. 

I know I left out a lot of the technical details in my plan and first steps idea.