I posted some of my investments in my profile to give you guys a better idea of the Montreal market :) - I do think Montreal will slowly** catch up to Toronto due to supply shortages, immigration influx (which won't ever decline since our provincial median age is the worst in the country), + the fact that it's an island puts a building cap on the market.

I have an 18-unit in Cleveland.Pretty much stabilizing for this first year, getting rid of inherited deadbeat tenants etcI have gone to Cleveland twice since acquiring the asset in September 2017:once during initial due diligence and I just came back from walking all units again with my PM last week.Wouldn't have it another way.Much less involved in it compared to my local Jacksonville buildings as my PM as been awesome in communicating.Oh by the way,I read this recent article on BP condemning Cleveland and Memphis to the bottom of some list of "6 cities"...I have no idea why people make these sweeping generalizations based on some graphic or data.It's like a girl saying to herself:"most men cheats I'll never fall in love".It's easy to write an article or create a spreadsheet while drinking beer in your man cave.I just returned from a week of walking the streets of Cleveland taking in the billions of $ in new investment in the downtown area and east of the Flats where an unbelievable transformation has happened since I last lived there in 2011.Vacancies are down, rents are rising.Yet some guy who's never actually been to Cleveland sits somewhere in LA and writes articles about how net immigration in Cleveland is negative etc.Hilarious.

We don't know what the backlash against immigration will be.

That area has had a huge influx of Chinese (mostly mainland) immigrants in the past 10-20 years, and the population is almost 50% of Chinese ethnic descent.

I believe that Texas is one of the best places to invest and that probably not change anytime soon unless the government slows down immigration.  

@Joe Cummings , some of us immigrants have made millions from practically zilch when we came to this country.

Meni BenishI left Georgia 28 years ago and immigrated to Israel as 10 years old kid. i am in the online marketing business and doing well.I was invited by my father for a business trip in to Georgia, which is between Turkey and Russia, on the Black Sea beech.To tell u the truth guys, I was totally shocked out of the development and the amount of new buildings and amount of foreign investors I met in the Marriott Hotel in Tbilisi.I made a small research and found out that most of them are there to find out about real estate opportunities...During the last year, I got involved with 2 different partnerships, and started a huge business of Constriction, Property Management and Capital management in Georgia.We already invested more than 10 Million USD in Georgia, in 4 different projects, and the prices are just raising day by day.We can currently offer apartments, agricultural plots, plots ready for constriction, projects with full building permits, Tourism projects and more.We have local partners, local low office providing all the needed services for our investors.I will be at your service!

And if any of his family are not 100% legal in their immigration status he would probably be extremely leery of putting info in writing.

My uncle and father were brothers and business partners who purchased the building and ran a successful auto body repair business for over 20 years in a primarily immigrant community in the SW of Chicago.

What would be the best way to start investing in real estate being new to the country low credit and no assets?Would flipping be the best option to start?New jerseyPennsylvania