Welcome,I am a fellow Canadian, have spent lots of time in Alberta, as I am a pipe fitter by trade.

Mom is a real estate agent and dad knows the trades.

I’ve saved enough for a down payment, but I’ll be left with only a little bit for emergency funds.

Hire gmax GC, are you comfortablewith architecture and trades? 

I was in contract to buy 100 houses from one builder who was selling for 250k in 06 my contract price 125k each.. thankfully I did not close as within 12 months these were trading as I said in the 50 to 60k range..

I wouldn't trade that for Airbnb's Aircover which is much more specific in what they will cover.

My main priority (knowing very little outside of what you shared) is to make sure you have funds liquid and available so that you may weather a potential emergency. 

To answer your last question, my realtor has contractor contacts I should be able to leverage for rehab budget estimates, as well as family friends with experience in the construction trades.

What I want is a way to have and trade the stocks and bonds I currently own at a large brokerage in an IRA (as well as ETFs preferably), but held (without paying extra foreign tax) offshore.

On the 2nd I hired all licensed trades but separately.