Cross-Border Real Estate Investing with Lauren Cohen | EP171

Lauren Cohen is a cross-border lawyer, realtor, best-selling author, international speaker & business immigration strategist with over 25+ years of personal and professional experience, thousands of clients successfully invested in and relocated to the U.S., and tens of millions of dollars in investments secured:  In this episode, we talked about:Lauren’s Bio & BackgroundImmigration InvestmentBest Timing for Real Estate InvestmentGeography of InvestmentTypes of VisaUseful links:https://www.eb5investors.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-a-cohen-9b54b11a2/https://www.instagram.com/laurenesq1/Transcriptions:Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jesse Fragale and you're listening to Working Capital. The Real Estate Podcast. We have a returning guest on the show today, Lauren Cohen.Lauren is a US immigration lawyer, Lauren a US immigrant from Canada is a serial entrepreneurial realtor, cross-border. Legal strategist. Bestselling author and global keynote speaker. Lauren is the founder of Investing Across Borders, the only concierge full service, investment and immigration advisory company helping clients navigate through the complex journey of cross-border real estate investing business set up and expansion and securing us visas. Lauren, how you doing?Lauren (1m 1s): I'm pretty good. How are you doing? How's the weather? Ah,Jesse (1m 5s): You know what? It's not bad. It's okay. We're not in the, we're not in the negative weather, but it's very, I feel like we've been in London in Toronto for the last month.Lauren (1m 14s): Oh, that much rain, huh? A lot of gray. Huh?Jesse (1m 17s): Rain a lot of gray. It's dreary, but you know what? Can't complain. you know, I'm not, the winter jacket isn't fully out yet, so we're okay. How about you? You're still in Florida?Lauren (1m 28s): Yes, sir. I will not be there in January. Anytime in any January. Anytime soon.Jesse (1m 36s): Fair enough. Yeah, I'm sure it's, it's a lot different right now in terms of the weather there. Yeah. Lauren, it's been, it's been quite a while since we last spoke. We had you on the podcast and we can link to that probably, I'm gonna say two years ago, if not, if not more. During,Lauren (1m 53s): During Covid, was it the last time?Jesse (1m 55s): It was, it was definitely during some sort of lockdown.Lauren (1m 59s): Yeah, at the tail end I think. Yeah. Yeah, it's, well, you know, you have so many lockdowns in Toronto, which were good for me, but not so good for you guys, so, yeah.Jesse (2m 9s): Well it's funny when people say the C word on the podcast, we, we don't know if they're talking like if it's a US individual, I don't know, you know, when it took place. 'cause it was different for us than, than down south. Very,Lauren (2m 21s): Very, very.Jesse (2m 23s): Yeah. So Lauren for, for those that you know, didn't listen to the first podcast and, and you know, just want to know kind of yo