You can regularly follow the classifieds in your local paper or read the Royal Gazette in your province for publication of foreclosure or mortgage sale.To find owners of a property, you will need access (electronic or physical) to the land registry of the province in which the property resides.  

I think you can have both scale and diversity in portions which achieve your overall goals.If you are a remote investor, and using property management, there will be a threshold of scale - number of units you hold in a single market - which will garner you a better rate/unit for property management costs.On the macro-economic level, distribution of holdings in different regions (states/provinces, countries) with diverse economic drivers and a low-level of coupling will help smooth the bumps of fluctuation in local economies.So perhaps it is not a question of Dallas or Indianapolis, but one of how much Dallas and Indianapolis and do your acquire them in parallel or sequentially.

@Jim K.Jim makes a critical point about tech, we use it regularly now for viewings (when applicants are out of province) and for decades landlords/ and tradespeople have been asking for pictures when a problem comes up,... easy enough to snap a pic/ vid when starting a project of the paint can, tile, flooring, door hardware etc and give a go/ no go as the owner.

I have to admit it's easier for me to do since Mexican law is based on common law and is therefore very similar to the law that I use at home in the province of Quebec.

That said, there are government agencies or non-profit groups in several provinces who will assist you with getting control of your situation and repairing your credit history.  

Other provinces permit the collection of security deposits (ranging from 1 week on a weekly lease to 1/2 to a full months rent on a monthly or annual lease) or the last months rent (Ontario).

After passing the examination the candidate can make an application, on payment of stamp duty, to the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Trade and Agriculture within the Province in which they reside (or in which they have elected residence if they are a citizen of the EU), indicating the section or sections of the Roll in which they wish to be registered.To be able to operate autonomously as proprietor or partner etc. the registered estate agent must register their firm in the Company Register and must fulfill all the obligatory tax and welfare formalities.

He moved into my 2 bedroom suite with his 21 y/o daughter. 6 months into the lease he told me he had a family emergency and needed to leave the province.

Other Applications of Sale In the common law provinces, legal and equitable interest in real property specifically considered "real property" within the meaning of paragraph (b) of the definition of real property in subsection 123(1) of the Act.

In Alberta or out of province?