For new immigrants and foreign students, I sent them to the local Chase bank, where it was easy for them to get an account.  

I'm not foreign to hard work and applying principles of success. 

They thanked me for the reminders and always paid.But undergrads - unless they are foreign students or engineer students - are a trainwreck.I found MBA students to be short-term renters, but otherwise not a problem.  

With Xero I was dealing with multiple currencies which became a complete nightmare and found a great accountant who sat down and walked me through it.If you find that this is too much work or too difficult you could easily give a bookkeeper a login for you account and they could take over.

While one can argue it is speculative and may not be advisable, it is nonetheless a valid strategy. 2) For foreign investors, it's an indirect play on strength on US dollars.3) Sometimes real estate preserves values better than other more liquid assets (e.g. cash).

Sure, there are some oddball exceptions for religious objections or foreign diplomats, but I'm not aware of a Federal law that says you are required to rent to someone without a SSN.

A person who volunteers to defend your homeland against enemies foreign and domestic is not someone to fear.

maybe requiring the original SS card (or an original certificate from SSA for originals lost) will help weed out illegal residents in CA where we are not allowed to discriminate between citizens vs non-citizen residents nor make unreasonable demands for documentation ie ask a person with a strong accent for a passport in addition to their driver's license when we just accept a driver's license (or combination of driver's license and SSN as 'two forms of official ID') from other applicants without a foreign accent or whatever?

Reading Robert K, and with your recent loss there is a new currency  I think you will be enjoying- time.  

On the one hand, you have the market for properties with a Western-style level of luxury in which properties generally trade in US dollars and the main buyers are wealthy Mexican and foreigners.