Companies in India send them to the US and put them into single room apartments, which is illegal in most cities. They pay them next to minimum wage, usually about $8/hr, and take their remaining money.
After the 3,6, 9, or 12 month contract is up, the company illegally keeps them in the US beyond their visa date, or fakes hiring them in a front-company to keep them in the US.
That’s human trafficking.”
The house next to my sons place in Redwood City was sold recently. The original owners basically defaulted. It is a large duplex. What was strange is that no record of the sale or the sale price could be found through normal channels. It was like the the house was swallowed up off the record.
Now I am told the plan seems to be to flip the house for conversion to a 10 unit Air B-n-B catering to ,wait for it, tech workers aka H1B’s from India. Basically a SRO hotel in a quiet residential neighborhood.
Your experience matches my broker’s. He has had cash deals to quietly sell property to foreign interests. He finds they then ask him to manage the property, only to find 10 Indians or Chinese living in it as IT workers.