Some traditional sources of funding include; business loans, loans from friends, mortgages or secured transactions on assets you already own, saving up money from your own income, starting a non-profit and getting grants from the government, etc.

By choosing to enter the country illegally, they have already set themselves outside the law.With that said, most of the Hispanic immigrants I've encountered - legal and illegal - have a distrust of the banks, officials, etc.  

I now have the financial security/confidence to take action and I am looking to start investing in income properties, preferably multi-family homes.  

I would like to use investing as a way to give back to community as well as secure a financial future for my nephew and nieces. 

Also, I may consider some type of video security system.

Get a secured credit card.

However, after talking to a few of the brokers we have connections with, we have gotten responses all over the board as to what is possible and what is not in terms of securing financing.

**A good piece of advice is to go back to company that you had the original claims (tornado loss) with and ask them to provide you "loss runs" this will be an official manuscript (sounds fancy, it's not) from the company that details the loss including the amount that was paid out.

Thus, is there a way to secure a non-recourse loan for this kind of business/property acquisition?

Here are exemptions to Due on Sale(d) Exemption of specified transfers or dispositions With respect to a real property loan secured by a lien on residential real property containing less than five dwelling units, including a lien on the stock allocated to a dwelling unit in a cooperative housing corporation, or on a residential manufactured home, a lender may not exercise its option pursuant to a due-on-sale clause upon— (1) the creation of a lien or other encumbrance subordinate to the lender’s security instrument which does not relate to a transfer of rights of occupancy in the property; (2) the creation of a purchase money security interest for household appliances; (3) a transfer by devise, descent, or operation of law on the death of a joint tenant or tenant by the entirety; (4) the granting of a leasehold interest of three years or less not containing an option to purchase; (5) a transfer to a relative resulting from the death of a borrower; (6) a transfer where the spouse or children of the borrower become an owner of the property; (7) a transfer resulting from a decree of a dissolution of marriage, legal separation agreement, or from an incidental property settlement agreement, by which the spouse of the borrower becomes an owner of the property; (8) a transfer into an inter vivos trust in which the borrower is and remains a beneficiary and which does not relate to a transfer of rights of occupancy in the property; or (9) any other transfer or disposition described in regulations prescribed by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.