Hardly a correction so far @Marisa Rowe  We have the same strategy implemented by the reserve bank in New Zealand....It does cool the market, but its not the end of the world... and we are at the downside of the cycle so SOFTER MARKET is expected. 

Thats what we do in New Zealand but they don't seem to be common at all here?

I lived in New Zealand and Australia and sold on Lease Purchase once.See http://internationalliving.com/2014/11/renting-in-...

I am from New Zealand, however I am currently living and working in Manila, The Philippines.

@Brickell Quarles   I made the mistake in 2002 to connect with @Brian Gibbons  (back then there wasn't Skype or anything, so I spent $700 on a phone bill to call New Zealand...true story..)  

My name is Mark and am a New Zealander based in the Chicagoland area with my wife and son with twins on the way!

Of course we could do it like New Zealand (if they still do) where everybody is required to list a home for sale with a broker, even brokers with another broker, using a national contract, and only the selling broker gets paid a commission.As for the investor friendly broker, find one that invests, I was a investor for 10 years before I became a broker, so had no trouble in understanding investor agents.

I have been listening to Dave Van Horn and am very keen to get into these and away from the tenants at the moment.My position is that I own properties in the USA and have all the systems in place to do property business, but I live in New Zealand. 

We are in New Zealand so buying sight unseen and it will become a rental after he buys more property.

In some areas, such as Australia, China, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and a few U.S. states, new suburbs are routinely annexed by adjacent cities.