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Hello everybody and welcome to another live Q&A session of Free Financial Self.
As always we talk about financial freedom and personal finance and today I have a question from S. Akkins and he’s asking me about the real estate investments that I do.
And he’s saying this:
“Is real estate viable business venture and you have 2 properties in 2 countries. Comparably, which offers the best environment for this kind of business?
So, I answered them this:
I’m looking at 2 different markets at a last 1 to 2 years. One is in Thailand where we visited last year. And the other one is single-family homes in the US.
For Thailand, it’s “Lower Cost- Higher Return”. So obviously, that’s better but it’s more management as this is an Airbnb investment. It’s buying an apartment for an Airbnb investment. And the other one obviously, it’s a lower cost. That’s better but more complicated to manage. One more significant thing is that you can’t get a mortgage.
If you’re not a Thai national and I think that you can only do it if you want to get a mortgage if you are working for the government. Then it’s possible to get versus investing in the US in a single-family home.
For the US back to the answer. We’re looking at HIGHER COST and the management is not as complicated but the thing is that it’s a LOW RETURN.
So these are 2 things to consider. And also you can get a mortgage.
So there will be more leverage there. So these are the 2 things I’m looking at and I’m currently haven’t made a decision. I assume it would take about at least 6 more months or maybe more to figure this out.
But yeah, this is my answer for the real estate investment question.
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