So far here has been my self-education:Books Hold: How to Find, Buy, and Rent Houses for WealthFlip: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for ProfitWhat Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow (by Frank Gallinelli) (reading currently)The Millionaire Real Estate Agent (ordered today)The Millionaire Real Estate Investor (ordered today)PodcastsBiggerPockets Podcast 1 - 68 (as of today)VideosGraham Stephan [since he had like <10,000 subscribers] (YouTube)Meet Kevin [since he had like < 20,000 subscribers] (YouTube)So I am a son of Ethiopian immigrants who came here about 24 years ago and I am extremely extremely lucky that we are fine financially and that my parents are paying for my college education (I really can't understand how lucky I am for that).I have always wanted to make the most of the circumstance I have been granted and...yeah...that's why I like self-teaching myself many things and real estate has become one of my intrigues right now.My "Plan" & QuestionI've been saving up for a while and my ambition is to purchase a rental my senior year for 3.5% down using an FHA loan (no idea what this fully entails, still figuring things out) and live in it for the mandatory period and then move when I leave college and get work and keep renting it out.I'll be looking for a place close to the university but at the same time I know that is probably hard because I once talked to an agent and he said that inventory was "tight" in the area.So I guess my question is...should I start investing in the D.C Metro area and follow my plan of getting a rental senior year and then moving out?

The mobile home park community is largely immigrant to work the agricultural jobs. 

The guy was an immigrant who spends six months working day labor in the USA and six months with his family in Europe.

Lots of decent houses that would probably rent for $500-800 - most of the nicer single families are in the middle to northern and western quadrant but E of the RR tracks.The WWii housing are the neighborhoods known as Hilltop (pocket near Lincoln/Oliver) and Plainview - Plainview has a mini pocket of Asian Immigrants where the houses are nice (relatively speaking) and picked up and insides (of the one's Ive seen) were decent - think they were Thai or Cantonese - can't remember - had to meet with a few folks for for former ins job there - Plainview I would never invest in - but that's me. 

With regard to Central City specifically, it was once a thriving immigrant stronghold, then fell into disrepair—except for the recent revival of Oretha Castle Haley (OCH) Boulevard, which is certainly worth visiting.

with a negative immigration rate, that is of concern.

I dont know immigration law, so I dont know if there is anything to worry about.

Awesome question, sorry that I couldn't give it an answer but been living in Arcadia for couple yrs now I felt the same way, Immigrants from China which takes a huge percentage of the population in Arcadia tend to reconstruct the property.And for a city that average of 1M dollar worth in each property like Arcadia it makes less sense to do Buy&Hold to me that is.

Tenant claims (but no proof) that the guy is an illegal immigrant.

Hi,I am an immigrant living in the US on work visa, I am thinking of buying an investment property soon.