My trip is essentially a vacation, but other than enjoying the unique touristy things each city has to offer, I really want to use the bulk of my time to explore markets and dip my toe in the water of investing, exploring different neighborhoods, looking at properties, talking to agents, investors, and whomever else can provide valuable insight on what I'd be venturing into when I'm eventually ready to buy.My intention with this post isn't really to turn this into a sort of journal with periodic updates, but mostly I was hoping that this post, and perhaps others in the future, could help me connect with some of you more experienced folks out there who may be willing to lend a helpful hand in anything at all real estate related. 

Non-US persons don't get the (as of 2021) 11M combined gift/estate tax exemption like US persons do.From what I've seen it certainly complicates things by doing it this way and gets really messy when it's time to sell and then you have to figure out who needs to pay the tax on any capital gain/how to file all that.Hope this is somewhat helpful

(And believe me, personally I'm all for young people renting vs. buying, but that my selfish interest)A young couple who have a combine income of $45,000 annually .

Hi Cara,I am a list brokerI can get you any leads you need. minimum order is 2500 tho. so if you don;t have enough you might have to find other investors that wants to order and i can combine the list order in any area.

That said, slums often describe an area or a neighborhood, not typically one unique property.

I think your ability to actually build homes within numbers that make sense is amazing and could allow you to form your own unique niche in your market that others don't have access/ability- if you can build cheaper than buying existing homes.

Otherwise, by combining to share common concerns over problems and issues that affect us all, we can show the powers that be that there is a single voice out there.So . . . what do you say?

I'd be willing to combine / categorize all of the sections and post them on BP so everyone could benefit.I am specifically interested in Texas leases so I'd start there first.

You can wholesale a few deals to start saving money...and that combined with general money saving you can save enough to buy an actual investment property.

The US is unique in many ways to the rest of the world.