Is it a little more of a gamble?

It’s all a gamble no matter how you look at it, crazy times....

I would love to do an RV Exploration Trip when we return from the UK. 

And I imagine the market reaction if there are any sales of their assets will be positive," said Bruce Nutman, UK head of retail capital markets at CB Richard Ellis.General Growth said its properties would be open for business and operating as usual."

Tyler McCracken Right now, I live in the UK but my wife is from the US and we're moving back to Michigan.

That same freedom allows for positive as well as negative things (think internet gambling and the child porn and the malware and scammers).

Originally posted by Steve Babiak:Seems like somebody associated with this company just joined BP:http://www.biggerpockets.com/users/InvestCharlotteLook at the website in his profile.They have given the website (link doesn't work) but say they are a UK investor, so something not quite matching up there.

I do the same with my stoke portfolio... you have your retirement funds that you put in stable long term thinking companies, then you "gamble" with the rest haha

(Higher % = more yield, more risk) 1.73% is INCREDIBLY low, however, to put in perspective,  Italy 10yr is @ 1.69%, UK is 1.40% & France is 0.62%...Although our economy is in VERY poor shape (much more so than many would like to believe ) I do not believe our credit is worse than these and a handful of others; the short of it: A low rate environment is likely to be the norm for some time.

Very rare opportunity indeed.And sure, some will come in here and poo-poo all over this idea once again, talking about how Stockton is a tertiary market, we're at the top of the market, the bubble is about to burst, and so on and so on...But remember, they said the same thing about Sacramento, too...If it were me, I would take the gamble on Downtown Stockton, develop some millennial bait with some cool lofts or something and maybe a few high tech features in the home, and ride this development wave out and watch the property values skyrocket.Or you could always just buy that turn-key property you've never seen in some far away state and hope you don't get screwed over by the developer like a reader of my weekly newsletter just did... but that wouldn't be very wise now would it?