I had 3 things going against me- I am a woman, I WAS young, and I am a brown immigrant.

He wasn't aware of the bill that was about to pass in regards to illegal immigrants not being able to work or rent.

Houston stands out as a growing market, relatively low price-to-rent ratios and continued immigration of businesses and residents.

I know that this post is probably going to be pretty lengthy, but I just want to give the whole story so that whoever's reading this can get a better picture of where I'm at...Just for background, I'm the son of two eastern-European immigrants who came here 20 years ago to provide a better life for themselves and for their kids.

One fascinating example from The Big Short is this Mexican immigrant strawberry farmer living in California that was able to get a mortgage on a $750,000 house based on a stated income of around $15,000 annually.  

ie, one of my tenants is a pastor/minister and the the church/donors pays him CASH and its apparently legal according to his congregation's legal counsel who've provided him a to-whom-it-may-concern letter citing legal statutes as such.

George Bidault ( previous French prime minister) once said, "a good diplomatic agreement was one with which all parties were equally dissatisfied."

In addition, as our population has grown, both from within and as a result of immigration, we have more people dependent upon it., Add to this our idiocy of loaning money to foreign countries that we will never see again, funding the UN to assist in removing our Constitutional Rights and on and on and after a while, you have more outgo than income.

There are still lots of politicians (including the Minister of Finance and PM) who are still preaching no pending real estate crises or, worst case, a soft landing ... however, fewer and fewer economists are certain.

@Nancy Roth  It turns out that illegal immigrants ARE protected under fair housing.http://www.equalhousing.org/wp-content/uploads/201...