I can't tell you the times I get calls from associates of mine that are very successful but not really clued into RE.. and they are talking with some off shore lender.. who only requires 2 to 3k up front etc..

Talking with sellers and structuring deals is not something you outsource offshore to a $3/hour person. 

I don't go to sites that have porn, so I'm not up on the perversions they contain, but I have heard that people get arrested for down loading child porn, I believe those are off shore type sites according to what I've heard.

Kristine Marie Poe   I assume this is a CA market your talking about... it gets even worse when CA or off shore investors go into low end assets in the mid west north east or deep south.. mortality rate is very high.. and length of ownership is very low.Logic dictates in a market were 40 to 50% of the homes are rentals.. that at least 40 to 50% of the foreclosure or vacant homes are from landlords who failed..

US banks did not want to touch an offshore property.  

My lot is flat and 'unremarkable', btw. my structural engineer charges $750 per plan review and I have an offshore architect and drafter.

Locals that live and work these types of properties can hit these numbers all over the US mid west area not hard to do.. were people fall down is trying to do it from their arm chair in CA. or off shore then it gets a little tougher and riskier

I might move a good chunk of it offshore into some asset protection vehicles.

I would buy 20,000 barrels of oil at $50/barrel and find a partner to help me store it in an offshore oil tanker for a small equity stake. 

Once I'm done piling up money to buy rental properties, I'll get a boat and we could go fish the Oil Rigs about 50 miles offshore.