She translates everything that I want to say and responds for me.

Translation: A city isn’t that big.

So we focused on NC & VA, as we find both much more landlord friendly, translating to lower expenses and higher profits, much less headache and still within our preferred driving range. 

While not perfect, you can paste the contents of your docs into google's translate and get pretty close.

Leading indicators of rig count (now <500) and building permits (-31% Y/Y) have translated into current losses (updated 3/4/16) per http://www.houston.org/pdf/research/quickview/EconomicIndicators.pdf The 14.1% drop in retail sales Y/Y should be alarming.

As far as renting out rooms, I would be sure to have a written lease agreement and have it translated before signing.

Whether that translates into a rent premium is what started this whole forum thread and still up for debate.Mathew

Translation - non-institutional. 

There's an agent here who {over} uses the phrase "awaiting your decorating touches", which translates into "the shag carpet may be gone, but the appliances are still harvest gold and nothing else has been touched since 1978".  

This translates into a 90k balance on your mortgage, and 10k heloc so there is no actual overpayment since all 100k is still accounted for, it is just split into 2 different balances instead of one singular 100k loan.