Those still lending become extremely cautious and demand draconian terms, like 40% down, and expect you to show very healthy financials and liquidity.  

Please be careful and exercise a healthy skepticism when choosing who you learn from.

We want to travel and enjoy life, learn, educate ourselves, eat healthy and just be happy!

surely there is a healthy cap so we aren't increasing our competition within our network.

I have my money diversified between my Thrift Savings Plan (maxing out), investments with my in-laws construction business overseas, an S&P 500 SPDR, and a healthy savings.

Some areas are very competitive now, but there is still plenty to choose from where you can get healthy returns.

They buy the properties in their names, then when they hit their lawfully mandated limit of ten properties(or ten in the name of each spouse) they move the deeds into an LLC, thus freeing them to continue to score government-backed loans on the cheap, giving them healthy cash flow.That's the way I've heard about it being done, and it makes sense if you believe in leveraging other peoples money to build wealth.

Even if it isn't a full month's rent, you still need a healthy enough deposit to encourage the tenant to take care of the place. 

But after looking at the numbers carefully, having family there to help out and knowing the language (although it is not a must), I decided it was worth a shot.My main motivations are:- Generating income in Euros (hedging against dollar value fluctuations)- 2% fixed / 15 years mortgage (1.4% for owner occupied) - healthy leverage considering current inflation around 2%- I chose an area with a low price point (not Paris, but cities with $30k to 50k/unit) with higher risks but working with much smaller numbers ($100k for 3 units in France vs $1M for 3 units around Seattle).

If the people there are poor enough they will be grateful for a clean, healthy place to live, regardless of how close the neighbors are.Disclaimer: My idea of a C neighborhood is probably most people's D neighborhood.