There's the surveillance plane collision when the US pilots were held captive for 10 days and our country's equipment and data was stolen by the Chinese government during his first 100 days in office.

One chinese drywall purchase will take all your future prfits for a long time.

With the dates being so recent, it seems unlikely that it'd be related to the chinese drywall of the 2005ish time frame, any one have more info or have defective drywall from lowes!?

But has to be inspected --specialy for houses built before 1978 ( lead paint ), asbestose or chinese drywalls-etc --How you going to make offer --if you dont know what repairs are needed and what you can sell for to an Investor.Earnest money should be reasonable --Not TOO LOW Let seller feel comfortable and feel that you are serious --not like Option Contract with $100 some guru suggests - with MLS --agent will expect reasonable amount --check first -Subject to Buyer's Partener's approval is good --many Gurus suggets that - however Seller may feel uncomfortbale -it all depends on motivation of seller and how convincing your conversation is --this is also sales - marketing and relationship business with trust.

Apparently the Chinese are concerned about it.

My wife speaks Mandarin Chinese and it has helped several times.If you lack certain skills it can be helpful to surround yourself with others that can help in these areas.

Yes you have to disclose it any defects paint mold or chinese dry wall has to be disclose in Florida under the law that they passed around 4 years ago I live in Florida and went through it a couple of years

., lead paint, chinese drywall if applicable, affiliated company disclosures, etc. that are automatically added to all of my transactions.

They brought in another supply, which is now know as "chinese drywall" It's toxic and actually eats away at copper.

What I do find very odd is hud is willing to sell a house with a sinkhole, chinese drywall or i'm sure other yummy problems without disclosing them even after they are told in writing about the problem.