I love how our community is global.   

Hi all,First time poster and seriously thinking into dipping in real estate investing.Some background:My wife and I (her 26 years old, me 30 years old) are Canadians currently working in Dubai.

Multis may be easier to judge globally from a numbers perspective as the added value can be shown in your cap rates and such, whereas singles can have the advantage of residential buyers if you need to sell down the line.

After closing on the property, the loan officer at the bank started acting funny, not returning my phone calls, and saying they have some new global credit guy that has to come in and look at all of their loans to make sure they're good.

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@Dan Strandberg ex-pat Canadian living in Texas.

On top of that I am Canadian (eh), so that adds another layer to the difficulty in getting started in the States (poor me, I know)Now, if there are any of you out there that have gone through this process, and have managed to get their first deal in the past year, I would love to hear about it! 

The national broadcaster as awoken to realize that rising housing costs eventually mean higher rents:http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/affordable-housing...

I’m from the US, married to Canadian woman.

If it's a high end property, many of the larger brokerages have fine tuned marketing systems that expose your properties to global buyers, etc.