Find a way to make college affordable by thinking creatively (foreign schools, cheap state schools, landlording during school, etc.).

Office & Commercial may do 4%-6%3, Most importantly, as a foreign national, you are NOT allowed to buy in China, unless you have a 2yr plus contract to prove to the government that the property you buying is for your own residence, and you will only get a maximum of 5yrs mortgage. 4, I am a Chinese citizen and I am not even allowed to buy in Shanghai unless I have shanghai residency or been working in Shanghai full time for minimum one year, and I am not allowed to by maximum of 2 properties in my own city, Shenzhen.

Bridge, portfolio, foreign national and other specialty loan products.KeyBank, flexible lender, HELOCs on second homes and rental properties. 90% LTV on primary.

Some custodians do have internal polices that where they choose not to process certain transactions that can lead to greater complexity in account management such as foreign real estate or UBIT creating trade or business activities, but that is a business model decision, not a legal restriction they are confined by.This lack of oversight is a factor of the regulatory environment, not their service attitude, by the way. 

@Bill Gulley & @Dionne DePaoli have helped me wrap my head around {at least partially} the {slightly} foreign lending practices and regulations in the U.S.A.

If you let a foreigner do the calling for you... and the seller gets a hint of that accent or broken English..

This is one of the hottest real estate markets in the safest country in the world to park cash - anything that you can buy and rent the next day will have severely compressed CAP rates due to significant competition from both foreign and domestic buyersYou hit it on the head earlier so I'll say it again - you gotta be scrappy!

Originally posted by Aaron Mazzrillo: Originally posted by Ellis San Jose: @Aaron Mazzrillo Are you saying that domestic vs. foreign cotton fiber content of the paper I use isn't that important and I should just mail something consistently and talk to sellers, make offers, and do deals and cash checks?

Now if you pay me $5000 I will dazzle you with the Black-Scholes foreign currency option pricing program that I wrote in business school to approximate option pricing from statistics available in the Wall Street Journal.

Bank statement only, interest-only payments, cross collateralization for multiple properties, foreign national program.