I don't offer pools or workout areas or saunas but I do offer a clean, safe, affordable place to live. 

Last, if you can't afford to buy in a good neighborhood now buy in the neighborhood that will be good.

HI Wayne,Im in Northern NJ and can understand you frustration with the local market,  Its a difficult buy and hold market. 

A frequent scenario would be they own their home but cannot yet afford to own their office in our prime $500-$1000/sf commercial hotspots.

They seem to just think that a affordable house in an high rental neighborhood is a good investment property.

Now with our current situation of paying almost no rent even if it were not rented we could still afford the mortgage and be able top save a little just to have some money in case of a rainy day.

Hi @Luca Dal Molin , Im also in Dubai and I work on the other side of the radio, air traffic control.Ive been looking at the Dubai RE and I dont thin its a good idea to invest here right now, however IMO this is going to change in the next year or so,  due to oil price and possibly weakening of the USD which will make house prices more affordable for Russian, Pakistani and Indian investors. 

It's frustrating as I would like to buy a few more properties but this area is a crap shoot for rentals at the recovered prices.

Years ago I would get frustrated but then I realized that "it does not matter what they say to you and how eager they seem".

he told me that Washington is a private land(hard to buy) or something like that but it seems that my affordable price range of a house is 40k :( sounds to bad to begging with. so ill need my wife's credit score even that she do not work to improve that issue and also He needs her SSN(true?)