A common metric they'll look at is your Global Cash Flow/DSCR which will be affected by your cash out refinance (higher mortgage payment than you've had in the past. 7.

And of course there are always full doc options that the entire global cash flow is taken into account not just the individual property.

While your credit score matters in the real estate investment space, borrowing is more relationship oriented and greater emphasis is placed on the collateral. 

Unfortunately many investors become laser focused on the 100% recapitalization of their transactions and end up working harder than those who don't place all of their emphasis on the 100% capitalization and have real estate portfolios that perform better because they made investment decisions better aligned with the underlying real estate's fundamentals. 

It's all about KYC.And no, it's not only in the US go check out global means of playing with currency you'll get ****ed harder.

Now McDonald's arguably did it better than anyone else due to having that perfect combination of factors (e.g. franchise model, desirable product, global economic growth, etc.).

Although a bank or insurance company would fit nicely into Berkshire’s existing platform, Canada does have restrictions on foreign ownership of those assets – so my bet would be either an energy or utility-oriented opportunity (plenty of them in Alberta) or perhaps a significant stake in Alimentation Couche-Tard, which owns the Circle K brand and has a significant global presence, potentially meshing nicely with Berkshire’s recent purchase of Pilot Flying J.This year, I had the pleasure of travelling to Omaha with some friends from New York University’s Real Estate Development program and got to catch up with old friends from all over the world.Alas, my favorite Buffett-ism from the meeting was "Understand that the market is there to serve you, not instruct you".

But I guess I'd push back on your emphasis on "free."

I say that in the face of folks who ridicule me that climate will force changes to living standards, job development will be global and not as local or national, the natural course of the currency being devalued, and housing developments will be cyclical per usual.

This is and I say this with extreme emphasis NOT the time to be learning, the market is wayyyy to unpredictable, I mean the material market, weather my suppliers can't commit to a price for more then a few days or the item is 3 weeks out.