For this study homes below $160,000 tended to not exhibit large swings in percent error when compared to their actual sales price.

From Australia!

He really wants to be hands off, as he is currently on his sailboat in Costa Rica and heading to Australia soon.Any suggestions or strategies would be greatly appreciated.

If I compare it to Australia, where I get app. 4-5% rental return and hope to get 10% cap gain (maybe, if things go downhill and I'm very, very lucky)- ill take the 15% in the bank any day - not relying on capital gain means, for me, freedom from a lot of the economic speculating (gambling) and uncertainty.

We have some property in the UK and Australia which we rent out.

My suggestion is use your area, like "Australia" or "Aussie" as a keyword.

When I have done Lease Options in Australia and New Zealand, I went to a local RE solicitor with US contracts.A delayed sale and purchase agreement and a lease with option along with a repair addendum is a good approach.I will post a repair addendum here in the forms section.See http://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/REISkills/file/repair-addendum-to-tenants-purchase-optionSo I assume you are going to lease with an option from the seller and sub lease for income?

China, Australia and South America.

Hello,I am looking at the purchase papers and all I see is in the title a section called "exhibit A" that tells me that it is "Lot XX, as shown on the plat of <name of association> recorded in Book 26-B, recorded in Book YYY of Maps, Map No.

In the post he talked about how he believes prices will level out over the next 10 years, stating that prices in cities won’t go down but everything else will rise making the US more like Europe or Australia, making the prices of properties super high and renting for very little.