Just as many overseas residents (myself included) had obstacles to overcome before investing in the US, many Americans have been successfully and happily investing abroad for generations. 

I don't know what it is now days but did you know that at one time over 50% of executed contracts by real estate agents did not close.

You market the property only after you have a legal right to do so which is when you have a fully executed contract (Purchase Agreement).D.

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My biggest biggest fear is losing all of my money to a bank run, should the American economy collapse.

A Warranty Fulfillment Deed is executed at the purchase, held and given at time of payoff, as full conveyance/satisfaction.  

If they have jumped through the hoops to get a job and work visa at an American school (no easy feat for a foreigner), then they have already passed a far stricter screening process than anything you could come up with.

CFDs have been around longer than I have, you should do some searching on BP about the issues with executed deeds, circumventing foreclosure laws not being in title, besides the Dodd-Frank matters. 

Well done executing a successful strategy.Were the things that went wrong related to the new purchases, or other well timed calamities-that it sounds like you planned for- on other properties?

NA NajIt is possible to buy IRS-approved coins such as the American Gold or Silver Eagle.