Here are some top amenities that have proven to offer excellent ROI:High-Speed Wi-Fi: This is essential for both leisure and business travelers, especially in today’s remote work culture.

This creates a large negative equity position.  

I'll wrap this post by pinging two other Japan-based American investors for their thoughts (until they actually tell me to stop doing this): @Steven E.

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This is a great place to learn and to connect with people so take advantage of all the great resources.

I have had a long term interest in purchasing an investment property and I'm looking to be smarter about this.

My piece of advice would be to research emerging neighborhoods and focus on areas with strong job growth and infrastructure development. 

While doing that, you should research places that are good for investing.

Starting with a smaller property or a few fix-and-flip projects can help you build equity, gain credibility with lenders, and better understand the process before scaling up.Securing funding for larger projects can be challenging without prior experience, but options like hard money loans might be worth exploring.

So, when investing in areas they don’t really know, investors should research the different property Class submarkets.