That's great advice, I need to get out and put in the miles and do anything I can to let everyone know that I am in real estate.

Last week a retired 71 year old man called me and offered me a 2002 Dodge Ram with 105000 miles, and only he owned the truck, along with a cashiers check that would have paid all but 10k of the truck off.

Hi Jin, prior to buying a property we run comps on the area for other flipped properties or well taken care of properties that sold in the last 6 months no more than .5 miles a way (preferably .25). 

The place is less than a half mile from the hospital where they work, and as residents they are really just sleeping there a few hours a night, then going back to work.

Everything within a 1/2 mile in the last 9 months has sold 100K higher than our current list(625K). 

I would always recommend Americans basing their RE portfolios in the USA, at least to start...worst case scenario, you can always come back and manage it yourself.Long term thinking, getting paid rent in USD will allows provide that "location independence/global arbitrage" strategy where even just a $1000/monthly cash flow from your US based rentals will provide a very reasonable standard of living in many South East Asia countries.Lots of ways to attack it.  

Im in Southeast MI and signed up on the site a little over a year ago but realized I never introduced myself.

By the time I finished the rehab. more than 7 homes were up for sale within a mile circle.

Early Monday morning, a 24-year-old gang member was grazed in the face after someone in a passing car opened fire on him in the 2000 block of West Diversey, less than a half-mile west of Tuesday’s incident.

Buy all cash and repair, get tenants in them and then do a cash-out refinance with a conventional lender to get my cash back.My market has been consistent with values of housing and rental market but has recently gotten much hotter as we are seeing some effects of an oil boom that is happening about 45 miles west of us.