I am a US expat living in Japan, which means I have the difficult task of navigating both US and Japanese taxes and laws.

But i must say its refreshing to hear that you fully renovate your properties.

I get so tired of hearing wild success stories, this was really refreshing! 

You can definitely vacate the property, refresh and rent for higher, however consider cost of vacancy, refreshing the property.

:)  You're welcome.Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mark-kohle...and https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/refresh-your-w...

@Jonathan Greene  i have made this statement many times.. so sorry for saying I again.there is no question some markets are what my old logging partner called a false market.. for us it was the middle 90s when the Japanese were paying double what the local mills would pay for a clean number 1 sort log.. the locals mills still got there logs at say 500 to 600 bucks when all you had to do was talk to the export buyers who were paying 900 t 1200 ..

These are not Germans or Japanese and they are not easily amenable to our way of thinking.

I found this book to be refreshing in an industry where everyone has an opinion, but I also found myself thinking there is a little too much correlative data and the themes were a little all over the place.  

They'll buy American assets like the Japanese did in the 1980'sSo with that here you go.

I'm not aware of any Japanese soldiers that were ever executed for Waterboarding.