your probably referring to the flipping tax implemented in Vancouver BC...Asian investment in the west coast especially SF bay area and LA has been a thing for decades..

A few seconds later it started to run away so I️ zapped it with the water hose and stunned it again, this went on for a few minutes til the mole was running down the street.

Queue the stunned silence.I guess our old outdoorsy tenant wasn't satisfied with the 3 (yes, THREE) perfectly good toilets in the house, and decided to make a DIY toilet in the back yard.For the next few hours she texted me some very colorful comments about our old tenants while spraying dish soap she had brought along all over the concrete and scrubbing it out as best she could.

And you would be stunned how many people still opened them and compromised their information.  

I'm honestly just stunned that she would leave this sitting there.

Does anyone have experience in these types of opportunities in South Asian part of the world?

I also suspect that the politicians that decided to reverse the sale, were not being prejudiced against Asians as much as they were being favorable to rich and powerful people. 

I just bought a lot last year for 60k for instance that I am going to do a spec on .. there is a lot of factors but Schools are huge one.. and the lack of public transport as well.. if the bay area had a train system like Chicago for example things would be a little different as well. you could go to the open areas to build and still be within a 45 to 60 minutes train ride to work.. which is not out of the question in the US> Growing up in Cupertino we even back in the day had some of the best schools in CA.. for  those families that really valued education ( mainly Asian cultures) flocked to Cupertino..

From a cultural standpoint, having a 24-ish year old child still living at home with the parents isn't unheard of (I'm Asian).  

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