By oath, if a person in need of emergency care comes to a hospital, that hospital must take care of them regardless of race, creed, religion, insurance coverage AND citizenship status.

But there are a lot of good properties that come up with good returns (in my opinion)  If you want, PM me your email and I can send you numbers on the past few deals my clients have purchased.I don't know what your citizenship is, but if you can get a FHA loan you can also get the 5% down conventional.  

Side note: my mother was born and raised in Kitchener and naturalized her citizenship in the US later in life.

Europe offers instant citizenship to those who buy property in that country.

I wanted to see if there are other loan types that I should explore.I don't have citizenship or a work visa in the States but I have an active social security number and a good credit score (750).Thanks for your suggestions! 

Having citizenship in both countries helps but the US has better interest rate and terms over the developing world.

Further, depending on your state, laws may make it illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation, source of income, citizenship, criminal history, and so on.

Not very creative but It is how I and some of my friends (in Shanghai) with Canadian citizenship think.Canada like China the RE prices are too high hence prefer to buy somewhere else.

If you keep a US address and don't plan on changing citizenship, you may be able to still qualify for a regular mortgage?

While your citizenship may help you greatly with the regulatory burden buying a fixer upper creates more complexity.