This niche is very foreign to the investors here for a multitude of reason - class, race, socio-economic familiarity, culturally, etc.And I don't think they are necessarily wrong for that!!

My apts are in Brooklyn, NYC and in good areas.A few of my buildings are near a school, Pratt Institute, that attracts a lot of Foreign students.Pratt is EXPENSIVE (think $30k to $50k per year with Dorm).I can't really do credit checks on foreign students.

When I was an intern doing some database related tasks with customer management, I realized that a lot of contractors that are working in the comp sci were foreign and extremely talented.

There might even be short term opportunities coming up this autumn from the fact that many foreign students can't even enter the country (right?

This is one of the hottest real estate markets in the safest country in the world to park cash - anything that you can buy and rent the next day will have severely compressed CAP rates due to significant competition from both foreign and domestic buyersYou hit it on the head earlier so I'll say it again - you gotta be scrappy!

:@Hai Loc What % of your market buyers are domestic vs foreign?

Property taxes, insurance, reserves, maintenance costs are all foreign concepts.

I ended up being kicked out of my hotel also due to a big military event and they needed room for foreign military.