And landlords usually lose.If you search Inman news articles, you'll find a fair housing violation somewhere in the country just about every day. landlords that don't bone up on the laws are apt to run into stiff fines.

We live in a rich country. 

The firms we've contacted that have expertise in both countries want a lot of money just to advise us on the correct way to set it up, then there's of course going to be additional expense setting it up, then naturally ongoing expenses to maintain the corporation. 

NJ does in fact favor tenants, but you can look at other markets in the country that are more landlord-friendly.

Talk with local homeowners if you can find them, read reviews on companies, talk with local real estate brokers (if you don't know one, ask a broker for a referral - as a broker we all have a network of brokers across the country that we can refer our clients to).

You never purchase anything until you talk to the country about zoning and subdividing and making sure you can build your project there.

"Campton’s rental inventory has skyrocketed in the last 2-3 years as existing owners have discovered AirBnB and put a ton of older inventory online" this is going to be the problem in most places around the country.

If I ever did spend several minutes of my usually way too short time reading ANY of this genre of "Top whatever # of cities (or states, countries, etc) that are good/bad/declining/rising" that often pop up, I wouldn't admit that I'd foolishly wasted my time like that!

If you lived in another part of the country where your mortgage would be close to what you would be paying in rent then it would make more sense to own.

He said to be out of Nevada, but when I spoke to him on the phone it was clearly out of the country.