Foreign vs. American registry - based on earlier threads, it is almost
cost prohibitive to re-register a foreign registered aircraft into the
United States.

I imported an Arrow a while back and it was pretty painless except
that the wire service bank gave me a bad exchange rate quote. They
fixed it later and refunded the extra $1500.

I used Aeroprice extensively on my search and found it easy and
helpful.

Assuming ADs and SBs have been c/w, the big variable is whether the
previous owner has been relaxed or anal about minor problems that
eventually become major ones. Somebody on the Cherokee site a year or
so ago discovered severe spar corrosion after buying a Cherokee and
ended up parting out the plane, as the cost of repair exceeded the
value of the aircraft.