The definition includes, but is not limited to: Negotiating, promoting, or advertising the sale, exchange, purchase, or rental of real property, or the granting or acceptance of an option to sell, exchange, purchase, or rent an interest or estate in real estate or a time share.

You have to go in person for an auction, which limits competitive bidding. 

It will limit the number of people who are interested in your property and you may end up having to rent it to lower quality tenants and / or below market rent. 

The name of the borrower then you of course still go after their LLC as well).So the seller sold the properties to the investor subject to existing loans (and the investor is sourcing financing even though he has limited equity)? 

It’s critical to understand what your state allows, especially around occupancy limits and caregiver-to-resident ratios.

Your best bet on background is to run your states background check if they are local and even then some things are on a county level. 

Capital gain can be avoided by using sec 121 home exclusion (upto certain limit).

What you do have to check into are the limits for staying so that you don't lose your Canadian Health Insurance.

I am both an investor and realtor so ideally, your best bet is to find someone like me in the Cleveland market.

My opinion is no because of HOAs and their rules and they can increase HOA fees with no limit on top of your pro-tenant laws.