"The Property Tax Appeal Board (PTAB) is a quasi-judicial body made up of five Members and a professional staff which serves the Board.

You will have to get the proper approval through whatever bureaucratic bodies have jurisdiction over there property and financing will be a whole different can of worms.

I went back later and could not find a UPC on the canopy, not on the fan body, I even used a mirror to look on the top side of a fan body and the inside of the canopy, nothing...I called back and said no UPC number can be found, but I have the brand, model name, model number, internet number, sku number...would any of those work? 

does any body know a good title company in Houston sw area?

You could raise your desk up and down to prevent your body from loosing feeling from the waist down.

That makes for very dark apartments.6) What regulatory bodies have to approve your plans?

All government bodies have their issues but, in this case, Toledo is acting like all landlords are making bank. 

I worked down here for the last year or so, I began to feel that same dark shadow of uncertainty come over me again, but this time it was answered by a Book by Tim Ferriss, the 4-Hour Body...ironically enough I heard about it from a DnD podcast on youtube.

While the IRS will treat them as flow-though and tax the revenue in your hands, the CRA does not recognise this flow-through and treats them as bodies corporate and you will not be eligible for a tax credit for the taxes paid in the U.S.A.If you are planning to do any volume of business in the U.S.A. and wish to have control over when net earnings are repatriated to Canada (if at all), then you will want to have a corporation (C-Corp or LLC that has elected to be taxed as a corporation).Best to consult with a {Canadian} accountant with cross-border business/real estate experience before you get too far down your path.

I'm not saying that buy-and-hold is immune to all risks, but I do think they are less risky in almost all aspects from a project perspective.