I have a deep background and knowledge of trading stocks and FX (currencies) for about 4 years with personal accounts but now want to learn about REI.

Evaluate the owner's expenses and add on anything they may have not counted for, ex. reserve to replace, cost for marketing, accounting, legal fees, etc.What is the area cap rate?

., you will be at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to many major forms of financing, especially given the currency headwinds you're facing in Oz.

The problem with investing in foreign markets is you risk the chance of a currency decline."

I then look to grow my fund into a $100M fund within 10 years to parlay the growth into the banking industry.In my self storage business, I am focusing on acquiring an additional 40 self storage facilities in the next 10 years with the goal of either taking Social Self Storage public or being acquired by a self storage REIT.In my real estate investment business, I will be growing my portfolio to include an additional 500+ units in the next 5 years to hedge against inflation and to balance my lending business.In my wholesale business, I am currently working on automating the Chicago and Indianapolis markets to completely remove myself from the business within the next 18 months and will be scaling up to 10 properties sold per month per market.I am always looking for solid long-term business relationships, be it with experienced real estate investors who are in need of capital, equity partners looking to get a solid return on their money, strategic joint venture partners who are growth oriented, or foreign investors looking to hedge their U.S. currency holdings against inflation through the acquisition of U.S. cash flowing assets.Shoot me a line and lets start making some money together!

(For ex: Do you know of a company with a large conference room/meeting room?

I just don't have access to it in 24 - 48 hours since I would have to transfer it from one of my forex accounts.

But governments lack creativity, instead favoring quantifiable and uniformly applied standards, and given our affinity to currency it's no surprise that the default yardstick to measure how much you know would be how much money you have. 

Think globally: There are overseas investors who would be happy just to not lose value on their investments, due to local currency instability and inflation. 

Because of the laws and different currencies I don’t think Refinancing my money out will work.