I recently had a conversation with a Russian-speaking realtor from Ohio and wanted to share some insights:Competition among investors is very strong.

If you rely on travel time to meet 750 hours, you're playing Russian roulette with the IRS.

For example:Second, under their "About us" link, click on "Management" and you'll see a "Meet the Team" page where there's the following photo/info for this James LaPushner fellow you mentioned (which says he was born in New Zealand):However, if you do a reverse Google image search on this photo, you'll find that it's posted on several other sites, including this one: https://planetaseminarov.ru/people/konstantin-baksht.htmlHere's a photo of him from this page:This page is written in Russian, but if you translate it, it says his name is Konstantin Baksht, he lives in Moscow Russia, and he is the owner and CEO of the international consulting company Baksht Consulting Group. 

http://www.newsweek.com/russian-using-bitcoin-laun...Unlike what you said... money laundering with bitcoin is a huge problem. 

The US Treasury is considering seizing Russian gold. 

These Ai thing the way I see it, is just temporary way to uphold the stock market, gov. cant screw 401k and retiress because if stock market collapsing, nobody would elect them so they have to create a story.gov regardless left or right, they have no choice but to pump stock market via tech sector as if they are going with oil, they would satisfy the Russian, their new enemy lol.....this is why also the risk/reward for avg Joe, public investing either with SPY or simple REIT for real estate is still way better , it just provide the cashflow to investor while it's also liquid. 

Trying to save money by foregoing insurance is playing russian roulette.

Which is why there are more Chinese people parking their capital here than the other way around, and same goes for Russians with Western Europe. 

In particular, I am able to invest around 60-65% of my monthly income - I make around 10k USD per month and need 3500-4000 for comfortable living (I am a Russian citizen living in Serbia). 

The only imported labor I saw there was the sheet rockers being mostly all from Canada (Quebecois), and many of the painting crews were Russian or Hispanic.