I see that with the "similar posts you may like" bar....some of them are ancient by most standards- so may or may not help, but there is zero reason to comment on them at that stage. 

My name is Eva and I live in Athens , Greece ,I am 22 years old.

My Papoo fled Greece during WWII and started life in America, getting rich with real estate.

When you combine that with uncertainty in the currency markets i.e. the whole issue of the debt ceiling the problems with Greece, Spain and Portugal commodites have become a "Safe Haven" as well as their normal roles in industry and agriculture.

Ancient, oversimplified and definitely out of compliance, but the approach to yields and negotiation might be useful.

That domino was Greece.  

That being said, there are more 1900 dollar two bedroom apartments available right now than you could have imagined a few years ago, and the sub-250k housing stock that used to be abundant is pretty much ancient history.

@Josh Sterling,Perhaps the ancient philosophy applies and will help you to define the answer to your question; Do unto others as you would have done unto you.

Recently I have received several inquiries from investors in Greece, and several other Countries in Europe, who are seeking private or hard money loans.

I'm actually in the same situation as you "sort of lol" just following the news and everything happening with Greece and the feds not raising rates for almost 6 years and on top of this talk of war and dollar losing value can make things scary to move forward.Note I'm also new so take my advice and research that's what I did anyway but from reading what you wrote your goal is passive income so honestly it really don't matter really if one thing is true you make money when you buy that is a fact.