My parents get emails like this from real estate agencies in France and the UK and send me the Detroit ones all the time [[there are a lot). One recent ad was for a September tour of Detroit for British "investors," and it included scheduled meetings this month with representative of Home Depot and the City of Detroit "Housing and Urban Development" department [[that's a federal agency, as far as I know, but...) I was amazed the city thought it a good idea to schmooze with European speculators.