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It is quite the opposite, foreign buyer ban is common. But, we need to factor in the fact that US is an immigration country, unlike most European countries that are anti-immigration in general. It is relatively easy to tell who is foreign, say, in UK or Germany. In US, particularly in CA, we...

I did know Mexico doesn’t allow ownership by foreigners but their bank has the 99-year loan program to work around it.

All in all - using SSN would be too easy as a bar, all EB5 families have them the moment they land at this country .

Oh boy, ITIN counts? Also - visa status doesn’t decide your SSN, let’s also consider DACA for a minute… A direct answer to what you said - B1/B2 doesn’t have SSN by default, H1B always have SSN. Almost every working F1/F2/J1 have them too… now H4 could have been issued EAD so they do too. All...

That legal US resident requirement alone will be too complicated to define. Is tourist on B1/B2 legal ? Is H1b/H4 legal? L1A/B/C? How about O1? Ok, how about tax purpose resident? Ok, the partial ones too? Look, layman term doesn’t cut in legislation…

Foreign individual or any foreign entity? What if a U.S. investment firm is working on behalf of foreign owner? I understand where you are from and your good intention, just that any policy can have loophole plus unintended consequences, and I never believed in any silver bullets. From a long...

Path to citizenship or simply anything about immigration reform is way bigger than Irvine housing price. We are living in a country where estimated 22m people are not documented.

Ironically Chinese cities have these rules such as using “Hukou” to decide who can buy and who cannot…

The SFH in GP , already doubled from 2016.

Lennar on the other side.

That’s in 55+ community and it is the size of 2-3 bd condo. I mean, it is indeed designed for seniors with focus on the first floor.

Why did the last contract go south? I cannot believe there is an Irvine SFH listed for more than 60 days without being sold.

See, that’s the thing. We are the first gen immigrants, but thru school and work I have been in US for more than 15 years. And I had real hard time to fit into the Chinese community of Irvine since most of them are here just because they own a house or a business around. I think the gap is more...

lol - I was trying to find which mailbox to open, you know, in Midwest your mailbox is just outside your driveway…

Agreed, couldn’t even get quote easily the past year. Renewal went up 30%

Look, I am Chinese and I moved from Middleton, WI to Irvine in 2018. I tried to talk to “local” Chinese on the first day moving in, got rejected and was told to stay away.