When income is repatriated, there will be a withholding made by the IRS (typically 30%) and you will also be taxed by the CRA on the delta between the U.S.A. withholding and your marginal tax rate at home.If you incorporate an entity in the U.S.A.

Oppose to a single family dewling draining your profit margin. 

Aside from from marginal advantages anymore - the small local and community banks are the way to go for me.  

It ultimately increase your profit margin and accounts for increased risk of something going wrong or costing more.On the other side, it means you could go up to .75% if the property just needs basic basic updating.

In my experience, pricing in this area is generally 15-30% lower across the board than say new construction, insurance work or home owner improvements thus in order to actually run a company in the black I would have to complete 3 foreclosure/investor renovations in order to see a sustainable profit margin.

It just means you buy them cheaper perhaps, but there will always be a margin on the resale.

If you're purchasing it for $330,000, it's 3700 square feet and needs a lot of work and the ARV is only $440,000, it is a very, very marginal deal.

My business did not slow down because of lack of fund but it did slow down because flippers are bringing deals with too thin profit margins.

Although I believe the original legislation has helped protect these same groups - who are often marginalized, I recognize it has also made home ownership even more difficult.  

I live in an area where buy and hold properties don't have very good margins.