Not to mention that it's not impossible for the far right or far left party to get elected in France during the next presidential election which would make real estate tax laws a catastrophe for investors.That said, I'm not sure I'm willing to take the risk of investing in France for the moment.

There is currently a Republican Congress and a Republican President. I

I don't think the next President is reappoinging Jerome Powell no matter what he does, given the failures in 2021.

However, I do believe the wild card president is going to rollback some banking regulations, which in my opinion will offset any slow downs from the rate hike.

Even if he runs for president I doubt he'll ever get close to the white house.People are going to see him as just a celebrity and not a serious politician.

Getting a bank to go 60% with seller financing at 40% will have about the same chance as Christine O'Donnell winning the Presidential election in 2012!

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Yes, well in hindsight I can predict The Great Depression, Black Monday, both World Wars, the winner of all Presidential contests, and the sad musical career of Macaulay Culkin.

You can do what you want, but I have a lot of paid for rentals and it doesn't matter what the economy does, if jobs increase or decrease, or who the President is.

My HOA president is super hard to deal with.