The options are pretty endless as I am sure you have been exposed to just reading through the numerous forums.

So my suggestion to you is find an area that you are interested in then dive in and do your home work, see what the community is like what future employment and current employment rate is, find out who is providing jobs and potential suppliers of jobs, research the RE market and neighborhoods, what is the inventory to DOM ratio, there is an # of market etc etc...

Everything I've read and listened to on BP says it takes numerous cycles of DM to start getting leads.

At our bank, we use the roman numeral M for thousands.

I was able to do that numerous times during my estate building years.Once you are able to answer many of the questions I stated above as to risk tolerance etc., it would be easier for others to give you suggestions as to which way they would go.

So in Antigonish, which does have a university and a hospital but isn't growing, the cap rates are maybe 8-10% while in Halifax, particularly the HRM, which has numerous economic drivers and IS growing, the cap rates are around 4%...i agree with you Jeremy about the low vacancy and tax rates in Antigonish. 

I think you are in a great position with numerous choices available to you.

@Laith Ali there are numerous ways to protect yourself from a bad contractor, now remember that not all contractors are bad. 

We are in contract on a shopping center that has numerous vacancies.

You can buy the paint from them, or see if another supplier can cross-reference the numbers.Or, go to the bookstore, general store, or even the library, and find the magazine rack.