Around here the trend is growing into an 'us versus them' mentality -- the hard-working citizen/homeowners versus the evil greedy landlords.

A dear friend of mine has served 2 tours of duty in Iraq and has shared many stories of being welcomed into the homes of citizens who are so thankful for the release from tyranny.

Dictators don't like to have their citizens armed!

Tim,We have been looking for the same and finding funding for those small amounts is hard enough as a citizen, let alone a non-citizen.

In fact (& unfortunately), a large majority of US citizens have the largest portion of their net worth in their personal residence.

First of all and probably most inportantly, the agent(s) is held to much tougher scrunity and standards than the average citizen when it comes to real estate.

Reverse mortgages are growing in popularity in our area as senior citizens try to keep up with the increasing cost of living.

Let's say the typical transaction looks like a single person buying from a married couple, so 3 non-realtor citizens involved in each transaction.

Uncle Sam is requiring his citizens to write a book for him every year instead of doing something productive.

Having dual citizenship is great, but people shouldn't try to change the culture of one country to fit their habits from another country.I have visited and lived many parts of the Americas, and had many friends who have done the same in Europe, and in every situation, if a citizen of the USA were to expect everything to be done in English and well as the native language of the country (though recognizing it is like this in most big cities - but definately not the smaller cities), then the native people would be outraged.If people want to immigrate to the USA, I have no problem with it, I would probably strive to do the same, but we shouldn't change our culture to fit someone else's (such as translating the our Natinal Anthem into Spanish - I was not a fan of that.)