Account Closed FCI exchange and similar places will have performing, PPR also sells performing notes, the price point is a little higher but they are performing, I also have a tape with performing notes.  

Decide what's most important to you: keeping your money safe (capital preservation), earning investment income each month, owning an asset that will be more valuable later even if it doesn't produce a lot of return right now, risking depreciation and vacancy in exchange for potentially bigger profit margins?

But if you're concerned the easy fix in your situation would be to ask them to treat it as a "direct" exchange. 

Originally posted by @Alvin Sylvain:If your read that Reuters article carefully you will see that nearly all those industries were foreign owned.

You will also deduct depreciation, which does not affect your cash, yet reduces your income at tax time.Do keep in mind that the IRS allows taxpayers to exclude up to $250,000 ($500,000 if married filing jointly) of the gain from the sale/exchange of property used as a principal residence for at least 2 of the 5 years previous to the sale.

Frankly foreign capital is not needed that much for sponsors these days.I do not work with foreign investors looking to purchase directly unless they are buying a property in the tens of millions.

I've learned that as well.If your options are to sell and exchange to a midwest neighborhood you don't understand or something, I'd sit and hold in my backyard, pending where you feel you are at in your market cycle.

We have rented to blacks/whites/foreigners and have had ZERO problems.

-Wonderful pool of high quality tenants- Aggressive competition from both homeowners and investors (both foreign and local) trying to get into the market... further driving prices upWork backwards.

That still doesn't explain why you wouldn't sell all of your real estate holdings and moving most of the cash into gold or foreign currencies to avoid losing your net worth.