Related:  Non-US citizens can already borrow via US Government programs like the GSEs (e.g.

Citizen) resolve the cashiers check issue needed on demand, to participate  in any onsite live auction bidding for real estate?

Canadian Citizen.  

The market closed and I had to go to citizens, which sucks.

I'm going to be 31 next month.Here is my life in a nut shell:Middle School: Self employed "Strawberry Picker", woke up early every morning, had my mother drop me at the berry patch picked quart after quart of berries, took them home, washed them, and then sold them to the Senior Citizens in old age homes.

These laborers may have been citizens, legal residents... or not.

I guess the thinking is that the parents of young kids are more likely to sell their property than any other citizen, thus the narrow targeting.

Borrower must be a Citizen or have a residential permit of where you are applying from6.

It can be done (the most successful Thai RE investor is an American citizen and there are others) but it is many hoops to jump through and in retrospect I would not do it again for many of the reasons you cite.  

Is it possible to get funding for a non US citizen for a property under the 100k mark?