., my guess is that most of these international investors are cash buyers just looking for a safe, passive income stream from their investments.

Buy and hold, single unit duplex for income stream. while we postpone our desire to fix/flip for a better market cycle. 

All the oil companies have large developments in the queue and many will be coming on stream over the next five years in response to the high prices.

Who do you really want responsible for your largest asset and cash stream?

Loans were almost impossible to obtain as new guidelines were looking at the potential income stream of yet unborn generations.Much has changed since January.

They are just looking to diversify their wealth and/or create another stream of income for themselves.With that being said, I do agree that the mentors and gurus online are selling snake oil when they make it sound like active real estate investing can be a passive source of income.

Hard to explain, but usually I use prop stream to learn more about the property AFTER I have identified a potential deal.

I just ran across the overage information as a possible income stream and saw that you too inquired awhile ago.

How is this different than someone say renting out a garage for storage to one person and renting out the house that is on the same property to a different person, one property but two streams of income?

Take your free cash and generate a second income stream (ie another property).