It was a smaller town and the city inspector would only go to the area when he would spend half a day doing inspections, took almost a month to get the final inspection and another month to get the COO permit. royal pain

Also, any prefered search engines for Canadian properties would be helpful. 

All markets in the US have great deals and bad deals. and there is so much to choose from it becomes personal preference and of course your comfort level with who your dealing with.Also you may want to consider something that you could use yourself to get out of the Canadian winters..

For now, I'm analyzing condo rentals in the Brighton, Ann Arbor, and Royal oak area.

For John & Jane Homeowner, shorter mortgage terms encourages accelerated pay down of the mortgage principal - or, rather, it use to... statistics now indicate Canadians have ceased to be a nation of savers.

I’ve been looking at properties out by front royal but it would mean leaving all my friends/girl friend behind.My goal is to live in and rehab a property, force appreciation, and cash out refinance.

Doctors especially are well known to flirt with real estate for a few years and fail royally at it, I think mainly because they tend to underestimate the learning curve, invest poorly because they don’t take it seriously enough and make the mistake in thinking that it is an easy way to make “passive” income on the side while in reality it’s like running any business in that the effort you put in is commensurate to what you get out. ... and if you don’t put enough effort into a business it will fail.

I am Canadian and have been observing the market for a bit.

Sorry, i think this might only be for Canadians.

I'm researching at Front Royal, VA... and Boone NC (The place has to be somewhere between where I live which is NYC, and Moorseville NC where my family lives)My BIG CONCERN:1) Regulation and taxes.