My boyfriend wanted to set this one up as an individual room rental (very common in his native UK) and he wanted to see how the business model would work here.  

I've invested over in Europe in some crowd funding real estate projects (particularly UK where crowd-funding is a widely accepted alternative financing method) .

Investing in a market without truly knowing the risks, benefits, numbers etc - is not investing, it is gambling.

NV has been a gambling and mining state but is making a good transition to warehousing, transportation and logistics because of appropriate taxation support.  

I would consider commercial but need to educate myself more...residential just feels more comfortable to me due to my past experienceIm not afraid of value add ( thats what i do in single family) but with the funds coming out of my 1031 I need to replace steady income formerly coming from my job, so cant gamble too much ( have other funds to do s little more "value add" investing).  

I dont know that the economy will ever really boom out there without major help in the form of subsidies and tax breaks but thats a major gamble.

As I own my own property business, I do at least 3-6 deals with foreigners each month, mostly from the UK, Australia and other African countries....surprisingly never anyone from the US!

Looking back, not a gamble, but in 1990 that was slightly unconventional thinking partially backed by IRR rational.

because my wife is a nervouse wreck when it come to gambling our own money!

I had a hunch someone assembled it wrong.Since I'd already removed and re-packaged the lock I was replacing with this one, to return the other to the store,  didn't want to hassle a return this one, I took a gamble on my hunch that someone installed one piece wrong (the axle 180° off), and I might be able to fix it.