America as a whole, the average credit score of its citizens continues to go down.

However I guess our financing possibilities are different to the ones US citizens have.

It is because  Canada allows US citizens to own real estate in Canada.1

Finance or the lack of it, the legal process for ownership, if a non-citizen can legally own a property, tenancy rules and regulations, market conditions, etc.In some countries the history matters.

Quick answer to your questions: First Colombian banks are very bullish in offering loans to US Citizens that have Colombian passports.

Only option was Citizens insurance, which is provided by the state.

As a US citizen all income made in the US or from foreign sources are taxable here.For state income tax purposes it gets more complicated.

I do appreciate the earned income exclusion, but it still rubs me around tax time when all my British, Canadian, and Australian friends give me a hard time about how they pay no tax at all and only the US and Libya (slight exaggeration, but only slight) tax their citizens who live and work fulltime outside the US.

He mentions his Brother In Law who lives outside the country and is not a citizen (my friend is a citizen) asked him to invest in real estate and manage it for him a few months ago when they visited him for a week.

Hi BP,I'm a Korean citizen living in Korea looking to invest in real estate in Washington State (not DC).