I am a Canadian looking to buy my first property in the US(San Diego).Is it difficult to find financing as a Canadian?

\Keep in mind it is fairly easy to go from an STR to a LTR but more difficult (annual lease) to go from LTR to STR.

It is incredibly difficult to find industrial space in Brevard County.

There are countless factors in play here and it makes answering this question or assessing cost very difficult.  

Meaning, DTI, and taxable income are in play and can limit your HELOC amount also impacting the amount to qualify for and or making it extremely difficult to qualify for anything at all.- Vacancy rate factor and bottom line Schedule E income will be used to calculate the rental, no the gross DSCR lease amount.

The first one is often the most difficult to acquire, but also the most important to set the foundation to build upon for future scalability!

Plus each of these markets have some level of rent control, which will make it difficult to raise rents on existing tenants.

what i hear you saying is... properties are expensive, and so finding the right one is going to be difficult. 

You'll find other things like liens and such that will have to be dealt with to clear title, but generally it's not too difficult and the title company or your title attorney will help you get title cleared.  

Normally finding general contractors within a large city is not a difficult undertaking; however, we were trying to obtain this property shortly after Hurricane Ida had destroyed the city and the country was just coming out of the pandemic.