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As a PM, his team would be familiar with areas and could help underwrite the property and take care of the day to day headaches. 

Was adding this half bathroom way more work or way more costly than adding it in a cheap Market where it adds $10k?

And you can quite literally walk there from the U.S. side if you didn't forget your passport at home :) Of course, I don't know how much (if at all) this could affect a hospitality business, so I would continue trying to find someone who actually operates an STR here to find out more.  

I've sold several homes in this area for my real estate clients too, and they've all been happy up here. 

You can easily do this for free.

Hope this helps.

This is a time consuming business.

Sounds like an interesting project but I am sure there is more to the story.

This is where expert mortgage brokers come in, acting as your guide through the maze of real estate financing.