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

Citizen's Building & Loan   They are in Greer. 

@David Rutledge - I have some experience helping Australian citizens with their rentals in the US.  

You really don't want to get involved in going against a protected senior citizen resident in a rent controlled unit.

REGARDING Interior Rental Inspections in Indpendence - sorry I got my cities and proposals mixed up.The council voted and it passed - however they said there was nothing the landlords could do, but someone, not sure who discovered that there was a 10 day period where the landlords if they could collect 100 valid signatures on a petition against the ruling, the landlords would then buy 30 days to get several 1000 signatures and force the city council to put the ordinance up to a vote of the citizens and not just the city council.They are collecting signatures - we should have someone at the MAREI meeting listed in the events calendar here on BP who will also collect signatures but you must be a registered voter in the city of Independence.barring that, we also have MO Rep Gary Cross who is a Jackson County Landlord, who would propose state legislation similar to KS that would at least require the tenants consent for the inspection, but this would require landlord support from across the state.

The second thing I have been struggling with is trying to find any concrete information about traditional mortgages for foreign citizens who do not have a stable address.

I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me.I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.I refuse to barter incentive for a dole.

I don't say all of this to scare you, and there are absolutely ways you can make this work, but just be aware of where your power is and where it isn't.Are you a US or Chinese citizen?

Welcome Marques from a fellow Tri-Citan (Tri-Citizen?)! 

Hello Everyone,My mother is a senior citizen and she inherited a home in Philly from my grandmother.