For funds that are already in your retirement account (e.g. a former employer 401k plan), rather than weighing the pros and cons of investing retirement vs non-retirement funds in real estate the more salient comparison point may be whether you are better of investing retirement funds in real estate and other alternative investments vs. traditional investments (mutual funds, stocks, bonds, etc.).3.

Could you elaborate on your experiences ... good, bad, profitable, non-profitable, wish you did something else, etc.? 

Other factors include large corporations and non-profits dumping money into the local community.

Im new to this and have been looking through properties for the last few weeks non-stop.

there are plenty of lenders with different rules and requirements some even non and sub prime no doc loans etc. keep up the hunt

This article mostly spoke about non-discrimination and service dogs in businesses. 

She is telling us that for a refi on a non-owner occupied multi-family like this, we will only be able to do 70% LTV and around 5.5%.

How hard is it to invest as an inetrnational investor/ non resident?

I believe with the yield available from purchasing performing notes generally being below our target, and with the risk and pricing too high for most non performing offered, and so many hard money lenders originating in single digit interest rates, that we needed to get creative to invest our money for our portfolio to yield our targeted return, without increasing our risk.

Normally non renewal will end the lease and if they hold over you evict.