The fact that a very  good portion of foreigners purchasing homes in Vancouver is Chinese plays into this narrative.2.  

Both families fell right in the income slot for too poor to be able to buy health insurance on the exchange, not poor enough to qualify for Medicare.  

Our local electric utility company will exchange burned out CFLs with new for free, up to 6 at a time.

I thought even if they didn't have any inventory they would still want to have a short chat to exchange info.

I'm toying with the idea of buying a multi-family home and letting them live in it rent-free in exchange for managing the AirBnB rental of the other units.This would solve several problems for me:I wouldn't have to worry as much about their financesI'd have a nice place to stay when we visitWe could build equity (albeit slowly) by paying off the off the property with the AirBnB incomeMy hunch is that this could work out just fine for everyone:My dad has been contracting for the last 35 years and is on the licensing board for the city of Sanibel.

Greece is actually just a very small reason among a big pile of reasons that people want safe assets like US notes or US property (perceived to be very safe among foreigners) at the moment.  

Hi Roberto,A professional, experienced, knowledgeable and financially sound Qualified Intermediary is critical to structuring and completing a successful 1031 Exchange transaction.  

I think you are confusing recent appreciation, which has been fueled by a tech bubble and unprecedented foreign investment, with long term historical rates of appreciation, which haven't been nearly as good for the Bay Area.This was a study conducted by Zillow in 2010 and eight of the top 20 cities for appreciation were in SoCal, none were in NorCal:  http://www.zillow.com/blog/top-20-best-performing-...Case Shiller also confirms this over the long term by showing that Los Angeles slightly outperformed San Francisco from January 1980 to the bottom of the recent housing bust in Spring 2009.  

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