If you're willing to educate yourself and have the personality for dealing with difficult situations, then it may be a good choice.Do yourself a favor: buy "Every Landlord's Legal Guide" by NOLO.

I would say local property management company is ideal so you learn the legal compliancy, too, BUT we also have many virtual non-local employees that are amazing at their job and have learned a lot in property management even if it's not in the state they live and own their own rental property in. 

Look at laws passed in your city/state/country since it was written and see if it’s still 100% legal.

.* Verify the "legal non-conforming" status of the MH's.

I will let engelo pontificate on it.. being that he is famous there.. you may not have known it but he bought the cheapest home ever sold in All of Australia and made national news.. then they kicked him out of the country and he had to flee to the US were as we know we love imigration legal or not.

There's legal issues of acting like spam and new regs coming on line etc. 

Legal and Tax Considerations:4.

😁Also check the zoning to make sure the multi-family unit is legal! 

The question becomes, is there any way to legally repatriate the income as 'active' income to maintain the favourable tax treatment in the US all the way into Canada.Still researching...

This  is not legal advice, just my opinion as a real estate investor.