In Australia, if a property is listed at $600K, you wouldn't dream of offering less than, say, $550K.

I'm planning on buying multi-family property in the USA; in fact I'm in the USA right now, having a lot of fun learning about your property market.I would like to accept rent payments via direct deposit to my bank account, whereby tenants just tell the bank to transfer the money directly to my account on the 28th of every month, or whatever date has been agreed, OR transfer manually using online banking.In my native Australia, this is the only way that tenants can pay rent for most rental properties; cash and cheques - sorry, checks - simply aren't accepted.

This was in Australia and I don't know Australian lending laws but he probably didn't take no for an answer.

I come to the US by way of Sydney, Australia and London, UK and my wife is a US native.

Here in Australia we have a site called airtasker.com.

:I prefer low-income areas because I can purchase homes there on my credit cards when I've already used up all my cash and equity lines hahaI actually maxed out and withdrew cash on credit card once to pay for rehab on a property in Australia$15,000 lollolLuckily sold for profit not too long after lol

My family consisting of myself, my wife and 2 ankle biters live in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.

we all agree that market is high so we need to be more careful in analyzing deal ... but no one knows about market correction time frame... you can study Canada, Australia market... they are keep going up since last 15 years... that can happen to US..?

But because Australia has an estate tax treaty with the U.S., the estate was not subjected to double (estate) taxation & we had adequate Life Insurance in place to cover any & all costs including taxes.Here is the IRS take on it….http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats-Nonresident-Alien-Estate-Tax-Study-Metadatagood luck

I moved to the US from Sydney, Australia around 2 years ago and the median house price there is $650,000 now.I don't want to blow wind up my own a.. but after living in a very decent area in Sydney my whole life, there is a certain standard in place of where I would like to live and where I wouldn't.My family and I are just in the process of moving into a B class area of Toledo (my perception of B class).