With regard to Central City specifically, it was once a thriving immigrant stronghold, then fell into disrepair—except for the recent revival of Oretha Castle Haley (OCH) Boulevard, which is certainly worth visiting.

with a negative immigration rate, that is of concern.

Hi,I am fairly new in this community and to the US market in general, not to real estate as such, and have read many previous discussions in the group with interest.Being a non-US-resident, my main business is in Europe (UK, Spain, Sweden) and got into the US market “by accident”.The situation is that I got a small rental in Detroit as collateral for money I lent a business contact (who defaulted on it).

I stumbled over these entertaining real estate videoes where a guy from the UK goes to the US to do a deal in 7 days with no money!

Long story short, the guest had stolen and pawned all 7 of our flat screen TVs before flying back home to the UK.  

I dont know immigration law, so I dont know if there is anything to worry about.

Awesome question, sorry that I couldn't give it an answer but been living in Arcadia for couple yrs now I felt the same way, Immigrants from China which takes a huge percentage of the population in Arcadia tend to reconstruct the property.And for a city that average of 1M dollar worth in each property like Arcadia it makes less sense to do Buy&Hold to me that is.

My experience has been with UK based crowdfunding.

Tenant claims (but no proof) that the guy is an illegal immigrant.

Speak to a mortgage broker, if you supply 1 year worth of income, there should be lenders that will consider it.In the UK when buying a property to rent out, the mortgage is different, it is a "buy to let" mortgage.