For example, you might have something like this:$50,000 - Purchase price for property$30,000 - Rehab cost$100,000 - Your current asking price to sell.There's nothing wrong with that if you can show the property is now worth $100k. 

The house is worth about $95-100k in this market in its current condition.

The cost to even enforce it, if it was a binding agreement, is normally not worth the headache.

Google street view is amazing but since you will Likely only be able to purchase one property in the next 12 months, I would wait until your back in the states.

You'll run across some bad apples, but it's been worth it to weed them out and build a relationship with the good ones.

I like the Fort Worth Area, as well as Charlotte, or RDU in North Carolina.

Its worth noting that if a citizen wrecks your house and leaves the country, you have the same chance of getting anything from them as a green card holder who does the same.

I can make arrangements to get to a property that is not on a bus line but I want to make sure it's worth the trouble if I do.

From a due diligence point of view, you can't consider third party hearsay off social media. 

I will never buy a property with an HOA again, it's not worth headache and risk unless I plan on being intimately involved.