I'm a non-US citizen and thinking of investing in the US real estate market.

I’d probably move there myself if I could get everyone uprooted.If your friend is buying at $100K to get $1,000 in rents, from one of the many large turnkey operators that are selling to AUS citizens, then I’d pass, as they’ve already extracted most of the value from the deal.

Often private citizens are not welcome. 

US citizens won't tolerate it  They already proved they aren't the most compliant people on the face of planet Earth, even when "the science says." 

Either they'll pay the drugs before the rent or they'll bring in shady characters doing who knows what.But even if they've become model citizens.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around the different funding entities based on names (Regions, Citizens Bank & Trust, Affluent Hime Loans).

They have no tax reporting requirements in the US.If you are a purely US company, with no holdings or presence in the UK, you have no reporting requirements to the British Inland Revenue Service either.I have not researched it myself, but my British friend tells me that interest earned by a UK citizen, living in the UK, but from a foreign source is not taxable in the UK, so you are not technically required to report the amount of interest paid, even to the investor, although I would think you would want to do so as a courtesy.

To date, we still don’t know what to do as a Canadian citizen trying to invest in the US.

Tyler Long @ Citizens Union Bank

I've been meaning to look into Citizen's Bank.