Belize is known for it's Banking and Offshore capabilities but, like most places that are "$ havens" the regular population is usually very poor.

So outsourcing some degree of property mgmt would be a must... but the deal won't work paying a local property manager a large % of my revenue...Instead, I would set up my "boots on the ground" (cleaners, handyman), and would need an offshore virtual assistant to manage guests and coordination of my local team. 

My current deal has been delayed for over 30 days because the Launch rep wasn't aware that you cannot wire money from an offshore account- by federal regulation, the money must season in a US bank account for 30 days.

Meeting strangers at a vacant property is always a gamble also.  

I'm not saying you can't make a decent return on rentals - I and many others here have done great with it - but if you have a well-functioning, profitable business that you know, why would you gamble money into Memphis *******es, to put it bluntly? 

H1B lottery is a big gamble and adds a lot of uncertainty.

This is definitely making me rethink if it's a worthwhile gamble (especially considering the owner that is bey foreclosed on is supposedly a lawyer).

The part about people not believing in you or thinking its a gamble definitely hits close to home for me..

A gamble on gambles of volatility moving certain ways in certain time windows..... 

There are others that continue to gamble with floating rate debt.