About 4 hours from many Asian destinations (Philippines, Japan, Korea, even Australia. 

This is a pretty good methodI don't often have the problem But when i see the amount of stuff caught in the trap I am stunned 

By the time you're out here, I'm hoping we can have a stronger networking of Asian investors / expats all connected and helping each other and sharing resources! 

You will be stunned with the amount of free education you can get here.

the 2nd association it resonates is the highly consumption-driven society we live in. in my area (coastal, urban southern california) i'm surrounded by 2 distinct lifestyles. there's the majority: seems like 95% of the local population who are renters, driving luxury cars, sporting fancy clothes, jewelry, hairdos, etc but obviously living paycheck to paycheck as exemplified by hardly a day somebody or the other is spotted  getting their car repo'ed by a camera crew. the rarer are the landlords, who in this area seem to be of mostly asian demographics (chinese, koreans, japanese) who live obviously very frugally: old 80s model sedan, oldfashion business cloths, always eating simple meal from home, seemingly never splurging $$$ other than into expanding their portfolio), my observance is relatively very few landlords in the area own relatively huge portfolios, each.with the advent of these infomercials and the internet (ie, BP) more and more people want to get a 'piece of the REI pie' and more power to them. there does seem to be this dream of rags to riches and while its ok to dream, do most people actually expect their life to turn around like that, as portrayed in most of the infomercials or even in the everyday setting where the masses living paycheck to paycheck, are spending their last expendable dollars not on depositing into savings acount, but blowing $20 on scratchies etc. in summary, is my observation reminds me of my days when i worked on wall st and the 'ra trace' was so obvious with dime a dozen stock brokers makin 6fig salaries at some point but blowing it on recreational drugs apparently costing thousands of dollars a pop to the point the next week they are broke again and that $ wasnt invested but wasted.  

@Brandon S.Sure, the median price in Irvine today is $850k.Here are the historical Irvine prices, courtesy James Park in Atlanta, using Irvine as an example for Asian market influences.

My issue is the stunning ignorance of so many agents, even some of the good and experienced ones.  

I would suggest Asian countries/India because they tend to have lower wages but still do excellent work.

For example, in Austin there were a lot of wealthy Asian-Americans whose families had clearly invested in local real estate.

I will be speaking at the Investclub For Women meeting at the Asian Cultural & Heritage facility.