The last out of country person I worked with flew in from Singapore and stayed in an Airbnb to learn the area.  

I'm considering a townhouse in Broadway Centre in Brandon. 

However, with a college campus (Youngstown State University or YSU), with 87% of students living off campus, the Covelli Centre (concert, hockey, basketball, convention center), Vallourec Steel, Eastwood Mall (largest mall complex in the US by land ownership), Covelli Enterprise and the Debartlo Corporation to name a few items - this area has turned into an almost secret community; left unaffected by the growth of elsewhere.

Often the deals to be found where I live are not in the major cities but in the more areas close by (ie. hour or so drive from popular city centres).

Well maybe we just need to take a look at the playbook for Singapore.80% or more of the population lives in government housing.. that solves the HUD problemthere is ZERO public welfare  .. everyone has insurance.. families take care of familiesthere are more millionaires there per capata than anywhere in the world by far. 

See if they have a plan for the area, NCP (neighbourhood concept plan) or an OCP (official community plan) and check if your property needs to meet specific plan, eg. townhouses fronting the arterial (busy roads) and single family on the local roads, maybe with a small neighbourhood park in the centre.

The only 2 things I recalled was the land was bought at 400+k.Will need 10M of construction equity, and the rest of the construction costs, total 30M, would be funded by debt, in phases, as the value of the development goes up.We didn't fund the deal because we ended up investing elsewhere.This was also a Midwest, but suburban city centre, so it was zone as a medium residential (24units/acre, ~6+ acres).Many apologies.

A collateral advantage of international investing is that it provides diversification to your portfolio.If you want to get capital gains, you'd invest in places like London, Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore or Sydney but you'll get negative cash flow.

The top ten list also included New York City, Hong Kong, Dubai, Singapore, Washington, D.C., Geneva, Switzerland, Sydney, Australia, Zurich Switzerland, and finally, Los Angeles.

The door on this house is not centred which the symmetry of the shrubs suggests.