"Plumber digs small trench, house sinks to China, negative cashflow with unfavorable exchange rate" is a rather uncommon headline.

Michael Frankel i think over time you will find your supplies evaporate a bit so I wouldn’t leave your aunt’s prized China.

(I believe that event is China.) 

But I live in China now so it's a bit weird.

@China Sistrunk, they'll want to know what you're bringing to the table!

For instance US companies need to do a JV and turn over IP to sell into China. 

Hi All, I currently live as an expat in China and do REI in Texas area.

Walmart in China sells $1,000 bottles of wine my friend.  

He said: "Both the US economy and the world economy are recovering...we are in an environment where our economy is very strongly affected by what happens outside so in the last two or three years the US economy has been doing well but it has been held back by lack of growth in the Eurozone, Japan, and to some extent in Asia except for China and India.

You can do that too, just be prepared with a storage space/warehouse or to get lucky on a lot of material.It's easy enough, just follow back from the guys that buy a lot of material in your area to the distributor to the manufacturer.I listened to a podcast one time with a guy who was rehabbing 100's of units of apartments in Texas and he started his own wholesale building materials company and was buying containers of vinyl tile from China and was selling to other apartment rehabbers in Texas.Could you do this?