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.

I have a brother who is a minister which allows him to legally claim quite a bit of his income as expense lowering his taxable income.

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.

I am trying to rent out a house in newburgh ny. I generally know how to screen, but I am getting a bunch of illegal aliens, without social security numbers..Any tips on screening them?