There are other options outside of those banks (ie. brokers who deal with foreign nationals) but prepare for a 30-45 day grueling underwriting process regardless of which direction you go because you're dealing with the American branches of those banks and therefore, have to go through the same underwriting process. 

Holding vendors accountable through instalment paying but also paying in a timely fashion is a fair way to do things

Hello Bp'ers, got an email today from NACC who states they offer portfolio lending with loan sizes starting at 25K.  This is ideal for my REI strategy and can propel my REI business to the next level as I'd have the a...

(That’s so old fashioned.) 

It's not so much the Russians, it's the Central and South Americans looking for a safe place to park their volatile currency.

Checkout Homestyler which is a free web app for creating basic floor plan designs.https://www.homestyler.com/floorplan/I recently tried MagicPlan Iphone App, but didn't have any luck getting the app to calibrate properly for taking room measurements, so just measured with a good old fashioned measuring tape.

Not only do you get to save money, make money, build equity but you also learn the ins and outs of managing rentals in a relatively low risk fashion.

I dimly remember someone telling me to get bent because I explained a similar situation and recommended that he find his next landlord through a refugee resettlement organization, because that would be one good way to make sure he would be working with someone who would understand his wife's immigration situation (and perhaps wasn't as deeply prejudiced against housing immigrants as all to many LLs are).I work with refugee resettlement organizations, I married an immigrant, I am a dual citizen and an American Born Abroad myself.

Progreso itself is a Mexican affair for Merida's middle class and only during the summer months, the rest of the year it's inundated with American and Canadian tourists from cruise ships that flock to the deep sea port, and then flood out into the other smaller bordering coastal towns in a deluge of Hawaiian teashirts and spf30 sunscreen, looking for *mostly* deals on real estate.3.

FYI, I don't know if dwelling insurance deals vary by state, but for Texas rental, I found the best (individual, not bundled) deals so far & in the past with ASI Lloyds, Safeco, and American National.