We do believe that real estate investing is one of the last opportunities in small business where average Americans can still jump the wealth gap.

And with a singular "simple" quite "stimulus" trillion handed to JP to "provide liquidity" to "Protect" creditors/ business/ Americans/ etc etc pick your slogan, we the American tax payers just funded the single largest hostile take over in human history. 

These lenders have done mortgages on STRs: Visio, Host Financial, American Heritage, LendingOne and RCN. 

How about this:  Let's make "Rental Property Ownership" the New American Dream! 

I believe the current American Land Title Association Owner's Title Insurance Policy defines Insured as:h.

@Cory M.Depends what kind of banking you need, but after searching high and low state department federal credit union (with an American citizens abroad membership first, like 100 bucks) and capital one have worked best for me to avoid the nightmare you mention of trying to deal with US banks from outside the US.

Hi Trinity, I've found that callers from Mexico and Latin America work best since they have excellent English (they grew up in the US as kids) and have the best sales/hustle skills for cold calling.

For the branch at Lihue, on Kauai, the phone number is:  (808) 245-6761Another option is American Savings Bank - (800) 272-2566If I can serve you in any way, contact me at any time.  

@David Trujillo your father, like all Americans, has the ability to avoid up to $250K in capital gains taxes on the sale of his home using the 121 exclusion. 

When I returned to live in the US I rented the condo exclusively to Americans.