I won't say it's impossible (just because I live on East Coast around DC, where house prices are irrationally over-inflated and where wages of the majority of people are less than one eighth of the median house price, I won't say that the entire US is the same), but you will have to do some leg work to find it, and you would have better chances in one of the more average Citizen oriented parts of the country, such as in Mid-West, than on East/West Coast.Still, your chances to make things work are a lot higher than mine, a home owner with $170K in available resources (including hard money) for investment property, because: 1. you can take advantage of the First Time Home buyer options , and you can also qualify for 203K loan (FHA), these are great loan programs because you get a conventional 30 year mortgages with low down-payment and low monthly payment, and the worst thing that can happen to you is that you will end up owning your home and building an equity in the long term.

I'm a not a US citizen, and if I one day leave the US, the income of my US rental (which I hold in my name) will be taxed at a withholding rate of 30%.

In most municipalities they are illegal.The city workers & or citizens are most likely going to take them down.You can also be fined.Whenever we use signs we only place signs in our own yards.

Hello all,I am looking for referrals to realtors who work with US citizens living abroad.

Are you a dual-citizen?

(To be clear, I am a US Citizen. 

Background check includes bank statement to prove they have income, ID, proof of US citizen and that's about it.Too good to be true? 

Only option was Citizens insurance, which is provided by the state.

I'm curious to see if there's any real-estate investors who are not permanent citizens in the United States. 

If you are targeting absentee owners, you should use my "concerned citizen" language which goes something like this:Hi Mr.