A real estate crash typically takes months or years giving you time to think, strategize and react.

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We've been fortunate to have some great tenants in place and the property has a positive cash flow of $275/month which leads me to *think* that I'm doing ok on it.My goal is to acquire atleast 2 more properties this year to hold as rentals.

There are many steps you will need to take to position yourself to not only invest in the US but to invest in general.

That would only give you a positive cash flow of about $50 per month.

At first glance it appears that rents in the area will support positive cashflow, based on home prices, taxes, insurance, etc.

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Him giving you such a big rent credit is very positive.

if rent is $700/month, and the first mortage is $500, this won't make a cash flow positive rental.

Great positive cash flow.Any advice on structuring financing for something like this?