@Gabriel Riley It was great speaking with you on the phone today.

Will either partner be the "boots on the gorund" i.e. managing day-to-day activities on their own time?

To give you an idea of popular lender criteria, check out https://www.11capitalfinance.com/Click on "Product Sheet" and see all of the different options just on this sell sheet to understand where lenders are in the market today rather than 2008.DISCLOSURE: I am currently evaluating a sales relationship with this company.

I like having educated tenants, who I can communicate with easily (email/text), tend to be cleaner, can pay me online, have jobs and lives that are more stable and keep them busy and mostly out of trouble.They tend to be pretty transparent.

The value of the property today is determined by what you can build on it.

The one we are talking about today is lack of titles for homes.

As for Jobs in Japan, I make top salary in my field in terms of my education. 

You can find lots of success in real estate by educating and networking. 

I drove to the property today and the houses in the area were pretty nice, which gives me more confidence in the town in that it does not appear to be dying.

Today I posted a question because I am a first time inventor and unfortunately I received a message from a user, which was good advise in theory.