I’ve spent years studying everything to do with investing in houses and then this opportunity to buy land came up and I just jumped.

Study the market.

Undoubtedly, I have much to learn, but I am no stranger to long hours of study and work.

The most important thing is to know the details of your local program like the back of your hand, then look for loopholes.Just to give you and the other BP'ers a deeper handle on why some TDR programs work and some don't, I just uploaded an excellent study on the topic to my FilePlace at http://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/ChrisNewma...

We have been studying Buffalo's market and it looks really promising. 

To invest in Section 8 housing, look at areas such as Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Dayton, choose safe neighborhoods, study Section 8 standards, analyze property types, and explore financing choices.

If you had 20 years of experience, great connections in the US, and knew your market in and out then I would say you could probably leverage at a higher rate and could probably manage that risk because you have substantially decreased all of the other risks.You should really study what happened in the US during the 80's when overleverage on real estate put a lot of people in a bad spot.

What I share comes from my experiences in court room and mind numbing hours of study and research in a law library on contract law and interstate compact. 

Majority of my target market is International Students, serious about their Studies, not interested in causing issues.

They have paused for 100 days until they reconvene to re assess and study more the impact.