David Buchannan with Republic Bank or Mark George with First Capital of Kentucky are great in Louisville if you don't already have a lender.

If you look at North and Central America and the Caribbean only, your best bets are the Dominican Republic and Mexico by far.

As a long time contractor in the peoples republic of California, but new here, either the "contractor" lacked the skill to do the job or didn't care.

It’s s shame you live in the people’s republic of California or you probably could have already filed eviction on the guy .

With the Unites States market being so high and the fact that I travel to the Dominican Republic often a thought came to my head.

Has anyone had any experience with investing in STRs in The Dominican Republic?

If anybody wanted to sell Entitle's insurance, one would think they would be doing so.But ... here's some recent data on the top insurers:Company Name / Market ShareFirst American Title Insurance Company 23.7%Old Republic National Title Insurance Company 14.73%Attorney’s Title insurance Funds, Inc. 13.24%Chicago Title insurance Company 10.59%Fidelity National Title Insurance Company 9.18%Stewart Title Guaranty Company 8.91%Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company 5.31%Ticor Title Insurance Company of Florida 3.45%Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation 3.09%Westcor Land Title Company 3.07%Ticor Title Insurance Company 1.93% Title Resources Guaranty Company 1.26%North American Title insurance Company 0.56%K.E.L.

There is a reason that even the far left liberals here refer to Santa Monica as the People’s Republic of Santa Monica. 

Fastest Ive gotten was 3 days if I recall correctly....also free and clear property, we had either a 5 or 7 day cash close period.The way ours works is I order title with the title company (day 1)....they hire abstractor to do the title search, on a rush job, thats happening a day after (day 2) then the next day I get the clear from title if they put it into Old Republic or Fidelity or whoever early in the day, I get it in the afternoon.

@Sean Bramble .. there's a person in the People Republic of Charlottesville who's very good at his job of catching STR owners and causing problems.