Belize is relatively easy to invest in there currency is pegged to the USD and there official language is English so the legal documents do not need to be translated for you to understand them.

Rather than assuming that 30 vague anecdotes translate to toxicity, you’d be better served by asking questions and seeking clarification.For those actually involved in the Gator Lending community, we’re talking about people dedicated to building real estate careers, many of them husband-and-wife teams who are laser-focused on staying out of the "rat race."

Additionally, lower Fed rates do not necessarily translate into lower mortgage rates.

Only buying on appreciation really translates to "This deal isn't as good as it could be if it cash flowed."  

I used to work for Japanese company and have know many friends who lived in Japan and spoke great Japanese and it seemed like about every 3 months they would have some kind of really mind altering experience culturally that was disturbing, so probably not an easy place to live or invest, even if the opportunity is there.Argentina I think prices/trades their real estate in $, so less currency risk. 

I want to provide the best rentals I can for my tenants and hopefully that will translate to happy tenants that will help me build some wealth down the road.  

Who knows what it would actually translate to. $40M to tackle the housing crisis isn't going to do anything and would be a waste of taxpayers' money.

We receive the monthly owner statements from AppFolio (and every other PM software) and manually "translate" those into QBO via a JE.

That doesn't necessarily translate in high real estate investment returns but you can make some money investing in real estate there (like it seems you do) and so it makes perfect sense that you do that since you live there.Those like me who don't live in Panama are likely purely looking at figures and comparing risk-adjusted returns with other countries where they can invest.

The other thing...all the loss models are being updated with these events making insurance risk higher which translates into a higher quoted cost...so no surprise to the industry folks.