A local bank that does loans in-house can do anything they want, others may have different conditions for title seasoning.

In these areas there aren't many jobs and the local rental market isn't great, but these are popular tourist destinations, and foreign guests pay more than locals could, even accounting for the short peak tourist season..Re. investing in Europe, it's relatively straightforward to buy RE as a foreigner.

BP is an awesome platform for meeting people and bouncing ideas/strategies off of seasoned investors.

Marc Dufour - Some great posts here from two seasoned tax sale investors.

Then again I financed a good friend up here & we got him into just over 44 acres & he was able to get seasonal renters with their own 'trailers' & he is still building the cottages (as finances permit) that are also seasonal rentals.

FHA required something like 3 months of bank statements meaning i'd have to wait 3 months before my cash deposit seasoned.

One particular site being developed on the east cape is directly in a huge seasonal river bed.

What's crazy is I worked about 4 or 5 installment sales for a client who was getting the properties through tax lien foreclosures this tax season and selling them on installments and I just pulled up the files making sure I did them correctly and I did them exactly as you outlined.

VR are different than seasonal rentals which may be for 2,3, months, etc.

It's kind of like the Raiders(NFL Football Team) celebrating a win in the pre-season when the purpose of playing in the NFL is to win a championship.