It is an ugly contemporary home from the outside with an indoor pool on a creek lot.

I noticed that price was more reasonable in the Windsor area, its nice to hear the tenant pool is decent there.To answer your question Paul, I would definitely consider investing in the US market, I'm just not sure how to go about making that happen.Thanks for the heads up on the US hotspots.ThanksMatt

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Some aren't comfortable with the unkown so it's beneficial until they get a little experience and confidence.More important is the appraiser and I do pay for desktop appraisals from the lenders appraiser pool for $100.

I've no doubt that this has been affected by the current sequestration - given that it appears to come from the same pool as rental vouchers - but for those vouchers that are available it seems to be a way to help buyers qualify.

Perhaps someone else had had better experience chasing a specific note, but we've found that it is a different ballgame than being offered notes in a pool that an institution or fund is trying to unload.

Since the owner would most probably live on the first floor (since the pool only has access through the first floor apartment) and the apartment only has one bedroom.

Our local economy is struggling right now & our tenant pool seems to be on a downward slide.

I hope you christened the pool with a big cannonball!

So there is a smaller pool of qualified tenants that are renters to choose from that landlords fight over.