If you own 25%+ of the business paying your w2, youre still self-employed.There are bank statement/1099 loan program as well, which is what you have been offered.

If you are worried about transition from Canada to US you can use a DSCR loan program. 

There are programs to find solds so that would be a good idea but an agent can pull directly from the MLS.

Quote from @Avery Oblepias: I’m needing advice has any one taken the Tom Cruz section 8 program if so was it worth the investment thank you  He's a total dork.

Dave Ramsey probably wouldn’t approve, but it’s how I was able to scale up to 29 buy n hold SFR.

The LP got it from a friend who is in some kind of real estate mentoring program.

i told them to apply to programs that are available to help with electric bill. 

No one is perfect though in RE if your doing volume your going to have a few that are bummers but at least in our program there is control.. not this feeling of helplessness when you hand your money over to a syndicate and they go dark your totally out of control of your funds..

issued guidance saying that you can use LLCs if you get approved to do so.

Always ask tenants to check to make sure it is locked.Another disadvantage is that you have to change the batteries regularly.Another disadvantage is you have to spend quite some time programming the locks and tracking the code3.