I strongly believe you could make a good deal in joining a foreign market since the criteria you use for evaluating a deal are likely to be different than the local people due to the cultural differences.

I'm an Irish online entrepreneur, and now want to start to build a long term rental business - as passive as possible - probably in Ireland.

It can be made worse by culture of the person you are dealing with.

Openly sharing what works and doesn't is the culture here on BP.

San Franciscans moving to Austin for new jobs and the unique culture ("Keep Austin Weird" is the city slogan).

Until there is a cultural shift in the USA society of buying & hoarding more, more, more, or until we get over our addiction to "stuff", Self Storage seems like a very good Asset Class to be.Please note that I am privy to a Town Hall Call where we discuss the state of the Self Storage Industry, the Economy, and the Markets in general, including Acquisitions & Dispositions, Development & Conversions, Equity Markets, Debt Markets, & so forth from the perspective Investors, Owners, Operators, Managers, Brokers, Lenders, etc.  

So you have areas of cities that are primarily black  primarily Asian  primarily Greek primarily Irish and on and on and on. 

It fits the more 'check the box' kind of engineering culture but it wasn't for me. 

Keep in mind this is 12-Month process so it's better to approach it with a building mindset.They seem to have a well-knit culture which allows them to streamline the process.

We attract talent from Texas, California, Canada, the Netherlands and elsewhere to join this Midwest melting pot of cultural, ethnic and social groups of German, Polish, Irish, Italian and Hispanic communities, all of us fiercely proud of our hometown.Here are five things you might not know about America’s best kept secret:1.