I remodeled and added a bedroom to the original house, and then built the second house after.  

I have a duplex near a Mini Mart gas station and people are constantly throwing their trash on my property.

I have been invested in oil and gas mineral rights making double digit returns hassle free.

Some hard money lenders will do it for up to 3 years but would need a good down payment but recognize the rate would be double digitsBe interested to hear what others say

So buy a 4-5-6 bedroom home with 3-4-5 baths and rent by the room. 

Apparently double taxation is one of the biggest hurdles for cross border investing.I would really appreciate some sound advice about this, and if anyone knows someone who specializes in US-CAN cross border tax laws, please let me know.A big big thanks in advance.

Great alternative to states that are cracking down on assignments  or having to try to  juggle double closes and all the marketing expenses that those that never close on props have to do.. this was simply listed on MLS and sold. 7th transaction that JLH has provided this client since Feb. 

so much private land has been logged and replanted since then.. in those days we would buy a 40 lets say for 150k  take 200k of timber off of it then sell the land on contract for same price then hypothicate the note to pull out more cash rinse repeat.. we also would use our logging roads and staging areas stratigically so when we left the roads were in the right place to do a 4 way lot split and the landings/stagging areas became the building pads.. in the NW permits for logging are not tough.. in those days it was over the counter and there was nothing you needed to do with regard to excavation.. however if I just bought the land and wanted to put in roads and pads then I would have had to get a grading permit and all the survey and engineering that went with it.. its was really something how we did that.. and I miss it to this day.. the other item that made it so profitable was Japan was paying premium for Export quality doug fir logs.. you could get double or more for export logs.

When the World Trade Center was crashed into, the owner collected double on the insurance policy but then had to give half of it back.  

I just inherited a 3-bedroom house in upstate New York.