Unfortunately, it looks like popular vote doesn't hold water in the UK either...http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36225652

There are lots of new businesses, immigrant families and young people moving there. 

Baltimore, DC, Northern Virginia etc just do not have the number of multis that other areas of the country have. 2-4 unit properties throughout the northeast were typically built to provide cheaper housing to working class immigrant populations..but DC for instance did not start to become a major metro area till 100-150 years after the other northeastern cities...and Baltimore in order to provide affordable housing went the ground rent route as opposed to multifamily housing.

So, I live in the UK, my rental property and the PMC is in Buffalo NYS. 

The reason for this post is I have recently moved to Orange County, California from the UK and am hoping to start a Property Management company for Single/Multi family residential units as well as vacation rentals. 

I was approached last week by a Co from UK "Business Area Limited" about financing a land development project in MN (large project)Tim Robert George Co's rep contacted me with a proposition to provide financing for the the project.

I believe you can do prepaid credit cards through your bank, but that involves paying interest on your own money or something daft iirc.As for the immigration process, it doesn't take into account credit ratings or score or bad debt from your home country.However, it does take into account criminal records and drug use.

I would like to say that Biggerpockets is wonderful educational resource  even though a lot of things discussed in forums and podcasts do not apply to our market in the UK.  

My parents immigrated here during the 80s and have built a pretty successful life in starting a few small businesses and obtaining a couple real estate properties.

At the same time the US has continued to see positive net immigration levels, and those individuals are more commonly drawn to the biggest metro areas for opportunity and assembly in community (ie there are Vietnamese communities where you don't have to speak English in the SF area, but not so much in Waco, Texas).