During his music career, Spector produced award-winning work with iconic groups such as the Ronettes, the Beatles and the Ramones (a group I once managed for one entire excruciating week).

I always spent a very small portion of what I earned as I am reasonably frugal and relatively financially savvy.

You will need to earn an income to buy properties, so what do you want to do and what are you good at? 

The rental property earned about the same amount and had similar expenses over those two years.Form 104PN has always been filed for non-resident.I’m curious if this is just how the tax laws are.I’ve done some research and found a few things on potential tax credits in CA if tax was paid in another state and maybe even processing state returns in a different order in certain tax software.Does anyone have experience with this?

I’m 3000 reservations into my career and I don’t think I’d care quite as much about this as you do.

That one lunch is worth tens of thousands of dollars over the remainder of your investing and purchasing career.

It's a business and they'll lend to you because... well they earn the interest and recover their initial investment.

@Adrian Coleman why do that at this point in your REI career?

Hence, I pay taxes in the U.S. claiming the Foreign Earned Income Exemption (Form 2555)I have a client in the U.S. that pays me for my services (provided from Chile) to its business in NY (mostly compliance services -and some general legal orientation since I am an admitted attorney in NY).

Its comical at this point.  100% of nothing is nothing, and that's what you'll earn if you don't learn.I encourage you to interview several of the top brokerages in your area to get a better understanding of what they'll bring to the table as the tri-state area begins to get back to normal.