My best friend from my days in New Zealand was South African so your accent makes me nostalgic.  

One of my friends from New Zealand mentioned an investment opportunity involving buying and holding housing in NZ and getting guaranteed rents with members of the military as tenants.  

I'm a broker in Colorado who used to live in NZ. I'm thinking about moving back there and would like to learn about the market(s). Any NZ investors want to talk about what they see happening, or recommend a local a...

I lived in New Zealand where this is also common but never purchased a lease-hold property.

so we could retire, or at least take off for a whole year.We spent about 6 months scaling down our lives, sold our property with the mega mortgage and paid cash for a small home (which we later rented out), a fellow agent took care of our rental properties for a small fee, and we bought a one-way ticket to New Zealand, via Fiji.

I'm also inspired by your zeal and tenacity.

:cool: Originally posted by Eddie Ziv:I did find an interesting article about 1% rule http://www.richmastery.com/Download/NewRule.pdf but nothing about 2% Eddie, you quoted a New Zealand based company for data on investing in the United States.

For example this is the law in New Zealand: “Landlords can only ask for 1 or 2 weeks' rent in advance, depending on whether you will pay rent weekly or fortnightly (every 2 weeks).”

My investors are from New Zealand, Australia, China, Israel, West Coast and more!

I lived in New Zealand for a number of years and am now based in Denver and doing business in New Mexico and other places.