.$1000. dollar assessments are common in my area for senior citizens in effort reduce their property taxes, compliments of our county tax payers.

As a consequence, cities are running larger deficits and going bankrupt and the citizens in those Cities are paying higher taxes in support of amenities shared with the subdivisions (schools, arenas, etc).The initial attempt to address this imbalance of tax-base to services was an accelerating trend towards amalgamation of bedroom communities that we have seen over the past 20-years.

Have not checked Sac Bee, Elk Grove Citizen, Carmichael Times, Folsom Telegraph, Rio Linda News or Sacramento Gazette for this week..Any advice on how to structure filing system??

–are meant to protect citizens from ill-prepared or unscrupulous self-styled individuals engaging in the practice of real estate for a "consideration", monetary or in kind; they are assuming and performing an "agency" role in a real estate transaction for compensation.

I realize this opens the door for predatory slum lords, but I have never been a fan of placing more regulations and laws on law abiding citizens in an effort to punish the few predators. 

This has proven to be a much healthier way of our senior citizens to live out their golden years as opposed to going to a facility to wait to pass.

As an alternative you may want to look at some of the Crowd funding short term debt deals I think foreign citizens may be exempt from the accredited investor US regs..and or Look at investing in some mortgage funds here I the states..

Regardless of whether they file a homestead or not, there are today over 70,000 Texas residents who owner-occupy their multi-family properties...it appears none of them can take cash out of the free-and-clear property they live in---ridiculous, an unlawful restraint on alienation, a handicap to duplex citizen-owners, and a sad reflection on the intelligence of our Texas legislature and mortgage lobby here. 

And this ultimately hurting the end customer.I closed an FHA purchase last Friday and here are the stats:Short sale 4.1 yrs agoNot a US citizen and here on a work permitFHA loan that I closed in 22 days including weekends.I can't stress enought that you need a loan officer that will structure your deals correct the first time. 

I wouldn't buy fresh cut flowers from someone who dealt in porn or that condones passing along unethical and/or illegal business activities, or conducts it,  it's not about their right to do so, it's about ethics and being a good business citizen.