It will be interesting to see how this all plays out..what is sad though is the less than honorable house flippers that flip these inner city warzone properties to foreigners left and right and make a killing doing it...

You will also need to look into qualifying for american mortgages as a foreign national can be much harder. 

Most of them do not want to lend to foreigners.

What if the owner is a foreigner from other countries?

IMO, no large corporate firm or foreign investor can compete with me.

In fact, in a lot of ways, it isn't specifically the fact that I was involved in real estate investing that was so alarming to him, the whole idea of investing outside of traditional blue chip stocks and mutual funds was completely foreign as well, and had I said that I was day trading Forex (I'm not, but know people who are successful doing so), had he the slightest clue of what I was talking about, he probably would respond in a similar manner as to what he did with my rental property business.And had I been interested in starting a sandwich shop for example, certainly that also would have caused a certain amount of discouragement from.  

Mind you we was not the typical internet chat types and our conversations was mostly about her delicious exotic meals and my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Theyhave been pumping so much money into the economy to prop itup, its time to slow the expansion down before all that cash comesback on shore and haunts us in the form of outrageous inflation.Of course I believe the whole idea behind NAFTA, GATT, CAFTAFTAA, massive trade deficits, and this foreign outsourcing is to keepall that cash offshore so as not to tank our economy A revealing discussion on the expansion and contraction of the monetary system can be found in a publication called “Modern Money Mechanics” put out by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

It's just that with all the 'dearest friend Jason' emails i have been getting from foreign countries with foreign bank leaders promising me a settlement of my rich uncle's oil fields in foreign countries makes me more nervous than ever.

let me know your thoughts on why there are so many foreign investors investing in the FL market?