A friend had a time share in Portugal, most of the buyers were from UK or Germany and wanted the warm sunny location just off the ocean.He couldn't sell his, he had paid $16,000 to buy it.

They told me they had a bunch of rentals in AZ, but when the anti immigration law passed, it killed their rental business and vacancies sky rocketed.

Someday the building will be paid off and California's open armed embrace of Illegal Immigrants GUARANTEES that rental housing supply will always be in high demand, driving C and D property rents higher and higher.

You opened a third Topic with investment in the UK (this).

I did a condo remotely in Florida from the UK. 

Gangs.New York--obnoxious tenants, bad courts.Mississippi--tenants have no money.Texas--illegal immigrants damage your properties.Alaska--potential ice damage.Florida--hurricanes.Oh, I'm sorry, did I just sound uninformed because I based my business on opinions I read?  

I live in Saint Albans, UK and run a professional cleaning services company.

There were 7-8 people (looked like illegal immigrants)in the living room.I suspect that they were not visitors .

And are immigrants mostly.

Hi all,I am from London, UK with 10 properties under my portfolio in TX, GA, FL and MI.