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Buying property in the United States as a foreign national isn't complicated because Americans designed it to confuse you. It's complicated because it was never designed at all-at least not as a coherent system. You're walking into fifty different property markets operating under fifty different legal frameworks, all loosely held together by federal regulations that nobody understands until they violate them. This guide exists because smart people consistently make expensive, avoidable mistakes. The British buyer who assumed US real estate works like the UK system, then discovered at closing that nothing-absolutely nothing-worked as expected. The European investor who thought they found a bargain in Detroit, then realized they bought into a tax foreclosure mess. The cash buyer from Asia who breezed through purchase in two weeks, then got destroyed by property tax bills they didn't know existed. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: The actual buying process, state by state-Florida's insurance crisis, Texas's property tax reality, California's tenant laws, Michigan and Ohio's waterfront transformations Financing realities for non-residents (spoiler: it's harder and more expensive than you think) Tax implications your home country accountant doesn't understand-FIRPTA withholding, estate tax exposure, depreciation strategies Property management from abroad using technology and professional systems When and how to sell-including case studies of what actually happened to real foreign buyers Country-specific chapters for UK, Canadian, Chinese, European, Latin American, and Asian buyers THIS BOOK INCLUDES: Detailed market profiles: Detroit's $20 billion transformation, Cleveland's $5 billion waterfront revival, and 15+ other major markets 6 real case studies-successful and failed purchases Step-by-step checklists for every stage Emergency procedures for remote ownership State-by-state quick reference guide Scott Neve has spent 24 years watching foreign buyers succeed and fail in US real estate. This is the guide he wishes existed when he started-comprehensive, honest, and designed to help you avoid the mistakes that cost others hundreds of thousands. The romantic vision of American property ownership is real. People achieve it successfully every day. But they do it by understanding what they're actually buying into, not by assuming their home country's logic applies here.

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