I wanted to share my experience with off-shore VA companies and see if anyone else has had similar encounters.

The short term rental market is heavily influenced by cash buyers from Brazil and China who are snapping up new construction "McMansions" to offshore some cash.

Get your own off shore person for 500 per month and hope for the best, or get a pimp!

Under what circumstances can a u.s. citizen have an offshore trust where the govt cant tax money on the funds inside the trust and at the same time cant look into the origin of such funds as long as a foreign citizen is managing such trust?

Quality and security are both major concerns, and there's plenty of negative experiences shared by my colleagues who tried this route.Anything that does not require physical contact can be outsourced, including offshore. 

Just wanted to see if anyone has had any success with off shore banking.

Thank you @Paul Martin, I've been focusing on offshore VAs for cost reasons, but finding that many have little experience. 

HSBC can help you get checking accounts setup in almost any country.We are taxed on our world wide income in the US, but that’s not that big of deal, as we have treaties with other counties to help avoid double tax, and you can always setup up IBC in Cook Island, or St Kitts & Nevis, thus off shoring the income earned outside of the US, if you bring it home you will have to pay taxes on it.

The best one is to put each property into a separate land trust, with the beneficiary being a multi-member LLC, consisting of an offshore C-corporation general partner and a minimum of 10 revocable trusts as limited partners - per property.

The only agent I have had offshore for 30 years is 75 & still with it.But in all fairness my 26 yr old daughter just connected with a 'grandma type' agent (her words) in Scottsdale AZ regarding a home purchase there & was very impressed with her.