In my country (Peru), when you refinance, that gets you kind of a bad image as banks and other lenders tend to think you were not and wont be able to honor your debts.

I don't know how prevalent they are in the rest of the country but I renovated and resold one in TN this year with no issues.

I also enjoy the podcasts and they are a great way to listen to real experiences from people all over the country.

Jeremy Sebes we served our country to earn this benefit.

However I am looking to start off by wholesaling notes as I am traveling out of the country alot and cant deal with actual real estate.

But by and large any decent (Katy, Cy Fair, Spring or other) school district the total hit on property tax is going to be 3%, or $4200/yr, $350/month.As homeowner's insurance is unregulated in TX we have the highest rates in the country.

Many areas of the country are going to see price drops and some of them could be substantial.

The latter deals with a lot of other topics but talks a bit about how other countries that "ruled the world" did so because of their leading position controlling the major source of energy during that time.

I do many Sub2 deals across the country and have even started a group on it at https://www.facebook.com/groups/freehousessub2/

I guess I do not like insecurity of working “for the man” – CEO in other country decides to cut costs – and you are out.