Can international students on F1 Visa do RE wholesale (or investing in real estate in general) legally? 

Visa Platinum Access card is not available in Texas.Caliber Home.

My fiancee goes by Alix...kind of uncommon...last name?

They have Passports from their home country, and Visas for the USA.

In a number of states those numbers are far lower than the de minimis cited in the you tube video, which brings up the fact that not everything required of real estate lending applies to the chattel lending common to manufactured homes, and visa versa.

My fiancee and I are in the same boat with a 3/2 purchased in a 10 year old neighborhood for 120k where comps are now selling for 170-200k.

Even if you verify that the dad makes plenty of money, if they suddenly decide to pack up and go home without telling you, you likely won't be able to collect a judgement anyway.You can ask for things like:- Passport, Visa- Verification of their enrollment in the school- Local ID like DL- Pay stub from DadAnd do your own digging.That being said, a lot of my friends are either landlords to Chinese student renters or are themselves Chinese student renters and they seem to all be happy with the arrangement.  

This is part of the reason I'm obtaining a work visa to move down to the US in the next half year.

@Thomas GarzaMy fiancee is a realtor and a property manager, as myself, I mork for an investor friendly mortgage company as a loan officer.

I've been pleasantly surprised by the passion and diligence of so many using this tremendous resource.I've bought the book on estimating, and have started it, but obviously vis a vie this question haven't completed it yet.