My initial hope was to invest in Canada to avoid complicated tax scenarios, but I know members of the BP community have had good success with cross border investing as long as it's structured correctly.I'm looking to work at least 1 more year overseas, but I'd like to start transitioning into investing over the next 12 months if possible to do so from abroad.I'm really excited to enter into this exciting industry, and hopefully work with some of the great real estate minds here on BP!

If you are using all-cash or if a smart realtor know about unique ways to structure an offer; ie escalation clause or something similar, you should be able to beat out the competition.

They will also work to clean up the property remove/tear down the existing shed structures that are unsafe.

So if I have an investor that wants to give me $250k and we can purchase say 4 rental houses with that money how do you structure percentages/payouts?

You only depreciate the structure value.

It appears that because these loans are structured like a typical loan (i.e. there is no “final” distribution of pre-tax retirement funds) I don’t think there would be any tax consequences.Mark Flynn CPA

Would be helpful to know how the insurance was structured. 

What difference would it make if we structure it with a lower sale price and interest?

If I were to continue doing deals like this would it makes sense and an asset protection structure point of you to transfer my own personal equity into that of another LLC?

If you ask how much something costs to repair and he/she can't give you a ballpark number they either don't know or aren't confident enough to give you an answer.First things that come to mind that people may not think of:- Crawlspace or Slab Foundation - Crawlspace makes it easier to relocate utilities and do structural repair if necessary now or in the future.- Cost of work required based on current market rates (for example right now electrical work is very expensive in Charlotte metro compared to historical norms)- Are any code issues with the City of Charlotte or LUESA?