Must pay well, she door dashes breakfast, lunch, dinner like clockwork.

The American Dream is alive and well in this country but you have to make it.  

The best way to connect and learn is to be in rooms where it's going down.In terms of captial your best bet is to focus on a primary income that cash flow sufficiently, saving as much as you can and doing something real estate related so you can get familiar with the industry.

Both permits often have restrictions on the industry the holder cannot engage in.- The holder of a work permit does effectively become a tax resident as far as the CRA (Canadian Revenue Agency) is concerned at which point they will qualify for certain things such as purchase a house without being considered as the foreign buyer; hence, foreign ban hammer not weighing on them.

True, I am 100% with you on that.The point here is, when you analyze, you do based on what you know now (what is known as a fact today) and on what is highly likely to happened (again from today) and to accept the fact that things might change tommrow.Life happened every day, that’s why  we need to stay firm with our direction but flexible with our approach.having lived through the HORRORS of those years fully engrossed in the industry almost nationwide... it was regional on who did well and who had troubles.. no question well positioned landlords in Portland for instance no issue.. 

I took a brief hiatus from BP as well, so sorry for the tardy reply.

Well, of course - that's obvious - but most people in most places in the US are going to spend too much on their purchase because that's what's available.

Even those with long track records are strugggling to raise $ as well as break even on deals 

Bought under value and currently adding a couple more homes and have brought two new tenants in as well What was the outcome?

They had carpeted the bedrooms and common areas, and the living room was still original wood...well I decided to pull up the old carpet and lo and behold - original wood in pristine condition.