Leverage / down payment required will depend on if you're a U.S. citizen, Green card holder or if you have another immigration status. 

Taking this a step further:  Bring in Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani new immigrants to share the rooms. 

My parents took a bite out of the American Dream as 1st generation immigrants with sweat and blood but they worked too hard unnecessarily because they lacked the knowledge of proper investing and building wealth.Biggerpockets and others are leading all kinds of people to investing which is an open secret; available to everyone but only practiced by a few.

He also helped a relative of my boss in an 'entertaining' situation - border and immigration lost documentation of one of the guy's H1B renewals, and accused him of having worked illegally in the US.

I was screwed over by an immigration attorney 25 years ago.

I love how everyone in areas like my state wants to help out the homeless, help illegal immigrants, increase welfare, increase incentives not to work, are content with running deficits & want to give free college to everyone.

Excellent point and many of those immigrants believe in larger families.5.

I keep comparing to Aussie and other countries world wide.Buyers agents pretty much don't exist and only listing agents do.true, US is almost always the most complicated one, in other country no need to have buyer agent but there're more, no need to pay tax when selling house, no need to put all 2000 pages disclosure when selling house  , no need to have house with so many certification (required in some states ) before renting it out , no need to hire expensive licensed american-born General contractor when repair house, no need to call specialized licensed educated electrician / plumbing with ipod because it's just .... plumbing. no need to pay tax with annual increase .... no need to pay ridicilous amount of insurance every year no need to check their credit score and immigration status when renter is impying LOL the list is on and onTrue mate but Aussie’s F#%@ you with stamp duty.

Born in germany to asian immigrants, visited private high school.

I grew up in an impoverished immigrant neighborhood, and I am white.