I just got back from Ireland and visited the Midleton Distillery, just east of Cork.

I am the owner of property and don't have to hire a lawyer which is required if I was an llc realtors will look to see who owns a property prior to taking buyers for visits and they will signal that right or wrong that houses owned by Llc are flips I suspect telling the judge you intend to owner occ when that is a blatant lie could get you reprimanded pretty seriously if someone file a complaint against you..

I do this even for a property I never visit.

And I like how you tied it back to the neighborhood details — schools, crime, neighbors, resale — because on paper a deal can look great, but if the area isn’t solid, the numbers won’t hold up.As someone just starting out, this reinforces that I need to be just as careful about who I hire and where I buy as I am about running the math on a property.Appreciate you sharing this — it’s exactly the kind of perspective I need right now. 

Surprisingly its return was not up to my usual expectations, but I kind of wanted a luxury cabin that I can escape to if I want.  

You may have a problem trusting your team, even when they have proved themselves, and if you decide to visit your investments a couple times a year, you could find yourself using all your profits on trips to another state.Either way, investing is a gamble.

This is why we network with other real estate investors - kind of like what you are doing here!

I would market your space as an entire unit for anyone traveling monthly such as relocating families, business professionals in a variety of industries, those visiting family for an extended time period, etc.

If you invest in the right places and in the right kind of real estate, you can get higher returns than at home.There's nothing like an international market in that every country is different and, within countries, you can have very different regions like in the US.I would generally avoid investing in Japan specifically.

You will most likely have to get some kind of SBA loan for it as it is a mix of real property as well as an existing business.