I live in Japan with my Japanese husband.

In just the past month, I have looked at two 30-35 year old buildings which are cheap, stick-built, minimum code, buildings which appear as though they were designed to be discarded after 30 - 50 years service {a very Japanese approach to building}.

Another time, when I worked at Sun Microsystems, I remember a Chinese Ph'd type printing reems of financial data on the company printer in order to become a successful day trader instead of doing his job.

Also, offer to trade rent for paint etc.

I am very bubbly and pleasant open to talking to people (even when I am nervous)Things I like to do (when not super charged on building extreme wealth)-Watch Japanese anime and Read Manga books-Go outside to the parks and walk-Go fishing-chill with my friends and family-and study concepts of finance, economics, tax law and business & wealth building ( i really do this with my spare time too lol )Things I'd love to try doing-Go camping some more-Go indoor rock climbing-go Kayaking!

And lastly, bond traders were betting that Friday's employment data would be stronger than expected.All of the above caused mortgage rates to hit their highest levels in three years.And then the much anticipated Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) data hit on Friday.The market was expecting a reading in the range of 175K to 181K with "whisper numbers" above 190K.

Great to see another FX trader coming into RE.

I know Japanese who invest in the US, got more than a few US clients who invest in Japan, and my mom (plus many others like her) won't look past Australia, even though you'd have better chances finding the proverbial needle in a haystack than finding a positively geared property anywhere but in mining towns down under (and these are here today gone tomorrow - not to mention you'd be hard pressed to buy one property for the price of five in the US these days)...and it goes on and on..

The "location" theme isn't always as reliable as the sun rising tomorrow, as many used to believe - the same goes for long term appreciation (real-estate always goes up in value, the American dollar is always a good currency to have, Japanese electronics are always no. 1, etc etc - so many axioms out there have proven to be anything but right)2.

Even arbitrage scenarios have time from the trader involved.