Request financial records, paystubs, and any proof that they can pay on time6.

@Tanjaree TurnerIf you can move it to a self directed ira then you typically don’t pay penaltiesThere are several sdira companies on BP who could provide more information or a simple google search will give you names of many.

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. 

If you're paying anyway..might as well get a G Wagon, or in this case a STR out of it. lol Check in with me if you'd like to explore OR, I work with a lot of absentee investors from your region.

Pay a title company for a title report.

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.

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

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. 

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

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.