Both Portland and South Portland have made rules and legislation to curb short term rentals (1 month or less).

In fact the only international bank that I know over there is Scotiabank and they are Canadian.

Per the Internal Revenue Manual section 3.21.261.18.2; "To prevend disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), the withholding agent's SSN must be redacted prior to mailing copy B."

DThere's 401K Index funds, Actively traded funds, REITS, AHP fund, International funds, Marijuana stocks, Prosper, Lending club, Groundfloor,Motif investments, invest in video game development cryptocurrency, etc .

Electric seems to have been updated and it seems there has been a new gas service coming into the building but the meters and some internal piping may need replaced.

Some of the common metrics to look at are cap rates, cash on cash, internal rate of return, and average rate of return.

.* Pricelabs - for automating price management* Slack - for internal team communication * We also end up using Zapier a lot to automate various functions, parse various confirmation emails from Airbnb to create reports, and so on.The nice part about all of the tools above is that they charge a small monthly fee per listing vs. some of the other tools out there that will charge a % of revenue.Hope this helps!

Do you think its better to reach out to local bank or to try a larger lender that might be more prepared for international investors?

Tenant Communication: There are two general levels here: internal vs. external. 

I guess location is a key in this instance because I don't have an appraisal to sway my opinion on style, condition or any internal or external obsolescenceEither way, I could be wrong and the OP may have strong comps to support that value.