I echo the comments on police stats nearby and have heard smarter people than I suggest driving by at all hours of the day and night to get a good idea of the block by block culture.

Here to help in anyway, enjoy the bigger pockets culture.

I have a dream to flip the city of Gary Indiana and change the culture and the make up of the city.

I'm a Chinese investor in town.  

It does make sense to me now, and I gained a better understanding ,that though we share a similar culture and language, we are different countries with very different systems. 

As a member of an LLC making a profit, your friend will have a duty to report and pay taxes on the profit and must have an ITIN (the equivalent of a social security number) in order to do so.The LLC will also need to withhold 25% of the profits before remitting them offshore, which your friend would then report as a payment on his behalf when filing his tax return.I just helped an Australian national set up this exact same situation and am working to set up a system for Chinese nationals to do the same.  

While I think there are some instances where the "PC culture" gets taken a bit far, this is definitely not one of them and your comment doesn't even apply to this situation.

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Thanks everyone  I tend to buy in the Southern half of the US for 3 reasons:1) you get much higher year-round occupancy rates in the South & it’s simply tough to earn a good ROI in the North if your place sits vacant for a big chunk of the year2) Culturally, the Southern half of the US seems to be a lot more accepting of STRs regulation-wise.

In my experience, the culture at every KW office is one of sharing and mentoring.