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.

I can assure you most others are not doing this or they are farming this service out to a VA from a foreign country or a call center, i.e Patlive.  

My question stems from the fact that an LLC can be treated as "foreign" or "domestic" depending on where it was created versus where it does business. 

My question stems from the fact that an LLC can be treated as "foreign" or "domestic" depending on where it was created versus where it does business.

Maybe you give the grandkids $2500/year to volunteer in a foreign country.   

Originally posted by @Logan Hicks:...Also, Non-US citizens cant have civil judgements deemed against them on the local level, as US courts dont hold jurisdiction on foreign non-citizen individuals in foreign countries.