Interests don't translate to showings...

@Robert Anderson -  Honestly, I haven't had enough experience with most of them to give you a professional opinion (personally, they are great people but that doesn't always translate to great business people) so you'd be better of asking others who have multiple rentals in Memphis - Especially other OOS investors.We had our first rental with Crestcore and they placed the best tenant with us, but we haven't had another rental in town so I can only share that experience.Let us know when you head back this way.

Equity doesn’t translate into making monthly interest payments....your equity is irrelevant to this.

. - generated with the bank's money, translates into far greater potential for most people.

Basically you have to translate/transcribe the income source (AirBnB) accurately into what FNMA does understand, and in a way she can understand it. 

I think response rate is very important because from what I see a lot of calls can be translated into profit even if it's just a referral to a realtor.

There are classes at your community college that could translate into a good paying hourly job like CAD for example.

In speaking with the tenants with a translator (they do not speak English), they told me that the previous owner new about it and it had been an issue for many years. 

Given the time it takes people to call you back, that alone translated into several days of waiting by the phone.

gclid=CJ-xsOnqwMgCFYySvQod...Here you can post ads and have them translated and even have the responses translated for you if needed.I have a number of Chinese investor friends and one thing I would suggest to anyone wanting to deal with Chinese investors is to make an effort to understand the cultural differences in how they do business.