There are trainloads of Japanese, Chinese, Middle East and Russian money finding its way into the US RE market, and that has a domino effect - global money tends towards the elite locations - SF, NYC, etc - and that pushes some of that money inland, and so on.

He’s playing Russian roulette.

Doing that with my dp feels like Russian roulette. 

to me personally only way it makes sense is to go large.to buy 1 or 2 of these your playing Russian roulette  if its all if not most of your liquidity then i don't think personally the risk is worth it..

If the next down turn has more in common with the Russian Ruble Crisis, then vanilla lending most likely won't see a large impact.

Call Trump up with a russian accent and tell him Weed makes America great again.  

Busted, I'm a russian bot.But seriously, you're right! 

I'd like to have a couple of 2-4plexes, 1-2 small homes to use as  Airbnb's near the Russian River area, an ADU in the backyard of the exiting house, land to create a Tiny Home Village and a new house for myself and my family. 

@Caplan AbbeyCan you prove that you're not a Russian troll?

With a booming Russia it's a good place to invest as the Russians holiday there a lot and I hope you can appreciate Russia being a BRIC economy and the black sea coast in bulgaria being Russia's No.1 holiday destination that is very important.