Pay a title company for a title report.

You're investing there, paying taxes, making friends, bringing your friends and hoping to create a safe space for others to visit where the people on the other end of the line live full time. 

Investing time to learn the market will pay great financial rewards to future you.

To do well in pricey places like Santa Barbara, use what locals know, look into ways to invest, team up with backers, check out how to pay for things, aim for cheap homes, do deep checks on the market, and get to know folks in the area.

WE are venturing in the Philippines with a view towards retirement - having properties that will pay for itself, a place to stay when we come to the US and buy & Hold for our future retirement or our kids in the future. 

In this episode it talks about rental arbitraging many units in apartments and then being awarded government contracts where you house a large amount of government employees  and the government pays you well over market rent.

If your average tenant stays 2 years and it takes you 6-8 weeks to have the next tenant in place then you have almost a month per year where you are not getting rent but still have bills to pay.

It’s dangerous to do for the ex though because if you don’t pay the mortgage they are still responsible for the mortgage. 

Yes, lease states they can pay by several methods which includes money order.

The top offer was willing to pay us $20K above appraised value, if it was short, which it was.