Figuring out how to compensate them, though, can feel a bit like uncharted territory, right?

Wind insuranceGood - US territory so can get a mortgage. 

.: You ar pushing into defamtion of character territory.

Fund managers do not care about individual investors unless they make up more than 5% of it, and if you're an individual investor that is more than 5% in a fund you just put yourself in the aforementioned risk territory. 

If you're asking because it's going to be your first couple of problems, why not be the first couple of properties in the area where you live so I'm comfortable with and then boom then expand to another territory?

The resistance is those territory owners of the "old guard" who have literally everything to loose.

That can be hot water territory - so while it's a lot of paperwork to complete it's a necessary evil."

Given the dynamics of the Canadian market, my team is exploring opportunities in new territories.

The exception was a lawyer that wanted to discuss How I handled redemption rights in Oregon as with the crash our foreclosure sales went from 95% trustee sales with no redemption rights and flipped to 95% sheriff sales with redemption rights and it was uncharted territory for many and not that i was a expert but i had taken a few through..

But, it takes work, being well capitalized (this is NOT a 'no money down" territory) and it takes knowledge of the local market.