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. 

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.

Getting the best price for the asset is one of the skills Realtors claim to have and to pass off their failure as "seller's greed" is one of the reasons Realtors have such a poor standing in our society today.

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.

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.

There are programs like Russ Dalby’s American Note Network mentioned above by Jay were proven fraudulent.

So if a landlord who is taking all the risk wants to eliminate some of the risk by not renting to people who have already shown that they cannot play by societies rules, so be it.