They don't like legal problems and they usually keep up the property better.They can deal with business (rent payment) matters better, because they are cash basis are cautious about bank loans because they are on cash basis so much.How can you be creative and help an immigrant be a homeowner?

Just as well, you don't expect someone like a Bankruptcy Attorney to handle immigration issues.

., Rent Ordinance § 37.10B(a)(9)Actual or perceived race, gender, sexual preference, sexual orientation, ethnic background, nationality, place of birth, immigration or citizenship status, religion, age, parenthood, marriage, pregnancy, disability, AIDS or occupancy by a minor child

It was a foreclosure and that area was hit hard not only due to the recession but also to the crackdown of illegal immigrants. 

I have also started actively working with the various immigrant communities here which (aside from some language barriers) has gone well so far, but takes a little flexibility and extra attempts at cultural understanding at times. 

I do not know your area in question but I’m from Toronto and this area is highly over priced and hence I have been buying in smaller cities surrounding it that are benefiting from the ripple effect as well as massive pro immigration laws in Canada as opposed to USA.Mark Cuban says diversification is for idiots.

if a new immigrant could not produce a ss card, I'd be leary 

@Aralyn Austin you get a SSN when you apply for your visa as a legal immigrant.

I rented mostly really tiny studios, so there were few couples, but the ones I had apply after the above example all had decent credit or no credit - I had a lot of immigrant techies apply and I didn't worry if they had zero credit.

Art students are also flaky, even graduate students.Some groups of people were a little more challenging, like immigrants who didn't understand American landlord-tenant relationships at first, or tenants who weren't fluent in English (my only fluent language) so they might need a bit more of my time, but maybe never otherwise caused major problems.You just can get a bad/good tenant from any tenant base, really.