The reasons are 1- less competition in commercial2- greater property types lead to more opportunities for “value added”3- commercial net income projections include expense for property management, 1-4 unit residential usually do not4- greater “universe” of properties to buy allow higher minimum return standards Of course residential is MUCH easier to successfully deal in, and with reasonable leverage has small downside risk, so I 100% agree that most investors should stick with residential.  

A great realtor is going to listen to a client's longer term goals and help identify the right type of property for them and the right location.

I am working full time at a another contractors (40 million in contracts) office as a project manager.

What's the end goal and exit with this property?

Our goal is to house hack our way to grow our investment portfolio. 

Market" which can be both a pro or con depending on how you look at it and what you're looking for).Also every investor is different because they come from a different financial situation, have different financial goals and have different risk tolerances.

I was forced to cash out my 401k in payments to minimize tax penalties, using it to complete house projects and pay off some debt.

To be honest in our country it’s quite difficult to determine what a pro agents means and to choose a correct an honest person to drive you throw process.Bellow I can give you few tips how to start and what to Watch out:Define your goals for buying a property in Greece, such as a vacation home, investment or permanent residence.

There's also a question for us about whether we'd derive more tax benefit from investing in a mixed use owner/user property which was partly occupied by our LLP business, or whether it would be more beneficial to simply acquire an investment property that we did not use for our LLP business at all, since it seems that we could generate more income that way and could use that income to help pay for office space elsewhere.So we really would appreciate some input on some of these concepts rather than being sold an investment into someone else's project.

I’m Tony, currently chasing my goals as a transactional lender.