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My niece is in CA area she is Non-IT person (Science background). She recently came across a desi company that offers QA/VB/WinRunner training (for $1000) with placement guarantee (as a contractor). Any feed back on such offers? I am not QA person so an not sure if a science graduate can learn the ...

[quote=layman;58939]Don't be so sure. My cousin's friend is born and brought up in India. She did only her PG in US and she married an American. The marriage was in India, held in Indian tradition.[/quote] Layman, it is all about probability. LIA means foreign DIL/SIL with probability of 0.95; R2I ...

[quote=dbs;58635]Certainly any electrical motor directly run on a.c. has a relationship with speed. Motors in India would run at multiples of 50 at no load and slightly reducing in speed as load increases. Ofcourse, synchronous motors would run at the fixed speed only. If the machine is designed for ...

Raising kids in India eliminates possibility of foreign Bahu(DIL) or foreign damad(SIL) :D

Foreign Bahu/Damad may be accepetable to some, for others its R2I:emwink:

Any idea if a sewing machine bought in US can work in India using step down transformer?
I heard that any equipment with motor has issues even with step down, something to do with AC frequency (50Hz Vs 60Hz)

[quote=atrivedi11;57429]I am in same boat as you are. I was thinking along the same line. That is rent for short term (1 to 2 years) and when the real estate market stabilizes, sell at a better price.[/quote] I feel this may be calculated risk, at most you may loose 20-30K but I see an upside to it ...

[quote=restlessdesi;57281]Gopal, We rented our house for > 18 months in SoCal. Send me an offline email at [EMAIL="[email protected]"][email protected][/EMAIL] and I can provide you a reference of the property mgmt company we used if interested. We had a great experience overall ...

[quote=babu_babu;57199]1) Sell or rent At the moment ROI of RE is 3% in India. Let us assume, we are buying this property, the ROI is: 100/560kx (2200 - 500)x12 = 3.6% >> I would buy this property. i.e. You can hold this property and rent it out. 100/240kx (1300-460) x 12 = 4.2% >>I would buy this ...

[quote=layman;57163]If you rent it out remote about 10% of the rent will be charged by the maintenance companies. So, on the 1st prop, you will make a loss of $400 and in the second about $500. [/quote] Correct [quote=layman;57163] In India, you will be in the 30% tax rate. You should explore ...

[quote=MrLong;57178]I think in this litigious country, you will be taking a boat load of risk being a [B]absentee landlord[/B]..... Unless, you have your own friends who could rent this from you.... If I were to be you, I will sell and move on... After all, all of us are in search of peace of mind ...