Comment by belter

If you are buying to rent in the Dutch market, and you are not part of the royal family, or a Black Rock fund you are making a big mistake. You are in a legal environment where you will not be able to evict a non paying tenant for several years. If there are children in the picture or a divorce you will have even more serious problems. The Belastingen will come after your earnings plus, you are likely to be victim of a legal environment biased to puritanical inspired laws, that try to hit back at anybody trying to get ahead of their neighbors in the same street. In other words, there are strong forces to make you get back to conformity, on what is a very homogeneous society. You will be taking on a huge amount of risk that normally only professional well funded investors are able to weather.