The trust factor has to be there and asking one of them to represent you will greatly help you relax...and they get paid.

I would like to incorporate some of the past with the new in the materials used and the design.

Understanding personalities, motivating factors, likes and dislikes are as important as knowing market stats and trends.

when you make offers, just factor in the cost of using a real estate professional to sell your properties.

For the experts, would you factor in average rents based on Section 8 guildelines as well?

In line with the long term hold, be sure ANY improvements you do have a long term design life.

:DThere is also another factor to that argument.

However you have to factor in the 40k cash back.

Dubai will care where the cash came from as money laundering and other crimes are still a crime there.Dubai does not tax foreign nationals for a period and there are other tax laws that are designed to encourage investment.At the same time the US tax laws still apply to any US passport holder or holder of a US green card.

Another good example of a similar risk is investors bidding as owner/occupants on HUD properties, which I hear happens alot.I guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet on the risk factor here for my first property and DEFINATELY get a mortgage broker to work on my next one.