Not to mention, the property was probably mismanaged by an “out of continent” investor who just had a terrible experience losing Haiti during the Haitian revolution.From a real estate perspective, the Louisiana Purchase was a game-changer.

If you're going the umbrella insurance route, perhaps see if it will cover you for several things including just the routine slip and fall (like mold or earthquake).

@Jeffrey Anderson GilI would make sure especially in CA that these meet local building code specifically in regards to earthquake.

And anything within a block or so of the ocean is going to take an incredible beating from the winter weather salt air etc etc.. and then you have the Tsunami that is coming with teh massive earth quake that will come and that will wipe out whole towns on the Oregon coasts.

If you're going the umbrella insurance route, perhaps see if it will cover you for several things including just the routine slip and fall (like mold or earthquake).

Just like Florida gets hurricanes, California gets earthquakes, and the northeast gets ice storms. 

If you have a loan, you may wish to look into due-on-transfer clauses, as well as whether turning it into a rental requires you to refinance to a non-owner-occupied loan/rate.If you're going the umbrella insurance route, perhaps see if it will cover you for several things including just the routine slip and fall (like mold or earthquake).

If there is earth quake and property falls into ocean or anything else that brings value to $0, you can at most lose 30% of property value 3) most investors do not irresponsibly spend the all the extracted value.  

I'm not sure about you but a broke government is almost always a deal breaker for me when it comes to investing in real estate.Finally, while Puerto Rico has had its fair share of devastation from hurricanes and Haiti from earthquakes, the Dominican Republic has been mostly escaping from both (yet all good construction there is hurricane- and earthquake-resistant).

If there were an earthquake, the house would snap in half, and appears to slowly be doing so of its own accord.