It has taken 8 years you build credit and capital as a new immigrant (I became a citizen last year).

It's not Joses fault and jose is a good family man who is an illegal immigrant afraid of suing the seller.

They told me they had a bunch of rentals in AZ, but when the anti immigration law passed, it killed their rental business and vacancies sky rocketed.

Someday the building will be paid off and California's open armed embrace of Illegal Immigrants GUARANTEES that rental housing supply will always be in high demand, driving C and D property rents higher and higher.

Gangs.New York--obnoxious tenants, bad courts.Mississippi--tenants have no money.Texas--illegal immigrants damage your properties.Alaska--potential ice damage.Florida--hurricanes.Oh, I'm sorry, did I just sound uninformed because I based my business on opinions I read?  

There were 7-8 people (looked like illegal immigrants)in the living room.I suspect that they were not visitors .

And are immigrants mostly.

However, one of them is illegal immigrant.

Immigrants have many reasons for coming to the US, and many reasons are valid, not at all a con, and they somehow need to get started.That being said, I have no particular experience with your situation, but I would do as much research as possible.Secondly, while Nigeria has a certain reputation (and many con-artists move operations now to neighboring countries because of that, by the way), not all are scammers, most Nigerians are honest people.

And lest anyone suspect that "working class" is a euphemism for a certain race, we had Mexicans, Hispanic Arizonans, African-Americans, an Ethiopian immigrant, whites, veterans, and lessees of both sexes.