But if you have to jump through hoops or spend a significant amount of money to put it in might not be worth it. 

First thing is NEVER feel concerned of hurting someone's feelings or ego, your reviewing to employ them, that makes you the boss doesn't it?

Don't spend 20k+ rewiring a whole house that is insanely expensive. 

Unfortunately, this costs $$$ that you shouldn't have to spend.

They often refer to it as 'certainty of close' when reviewing offers.3.

I don't want to spend all my capital, but I think I could potentially refinance and get some back.

I'm going to reiterate what's already been mentioned above, but I'm going to actually give you examples of why it's relevant to you to find a U.S. tax professional.1 - You're going to need to file U.S. taxes once you have property down here, there's federal filings, state filings, and sometimes local filings too2 - Tons of tax treaties between the U.S. and Canada that are easy to miss and can cost you a lot of money (important one with rentals - effectively connected income - if the professional you talk to doesn't know what this is, run away)3 - The amount of days you spend in the U.S. needs to be tracked and if you go over a threshold, all of your worldwide income could be taxable by the U.S.4 - Selling real property means up to 15% of your sales proceeds might not be available to you for years (FIRPTA)5 - Lots of nuance at the state and local levels, which both want to take as much money from you as possibleMain takeaway here is that you should find a U.S. based tax person.

Also, there are many integrations available with QuickBooks so that receipts, bills, invoices can be sent to Quickbooks or outside software to read each and automatically create the transaction and we just have to review and approve.

She ended up "finding" 5k that was put on other clients orders, she refunded 5k and still refuses to get on a call to review all the receipts for the remainder of unauthorized charges.* No calls accepted to review receipts: I have asked Jenny several times for the last 3+ weeks to get on a call to review the receipts and all of the items that are in the house, I have given her several deadlines to resolve the issue, she has never accepted any of my invitations to join any calls despite me pleading her to do so as my credit card payment is now due and has a 29.99% interest rate if not paid.I have found several people that were also affected with just 2 facebook posts.

@Trace P. again, why would the government logically spend YOUR tax dollars paying more than market rent for an S8 tenant?