You can find that most places in the country.

Cross border taxation is very complicated, most developed countries like the US and Canada have sophisticated systems to ensure their residents pay taxes, and you are not likely to be able to achieve your goal of not paying Canadian taxes on Florida income while a Canadian resident. 

As far as sheriff sales most people have probaby been approached by every investor in the county possibly the country.

There are often long stretches of flat SFR markets in US. like '79-'83, '89-'94, or even down markets like '06-'13 where single family home values dropped 36% on average across country, so 1% rule may help keep some investors out of trouble by at least having some cash flow to safely carry the mortgage during those times.      

I do these loans all over the country and have never had those as conditions.  

From talking to locals, there's a couple of issues than need to be addressed, some are the non-ecological practices that some of those developers have, unfortunately, our government profits from this investors and allows them to destroy manglers (which are the natural water purifying system of that area) dismantling hectares of mangroves and degraded the habitat of resident and migratory species burying animals alive.There's proof of fecal material floating beneath the city of Tulum, only 20% of the water is sent to the water treatment plant, there's no infrastructure for the exponential growth.The landfills in the middle of the jungle that is leaking hazardous pollutants into the freshwater system and that something that developers won't tell you.I love my country and it would be a disaster for everybody if this place ends up like some other great beaches around the world, that are completely ruined by greedy investors not following the rules.There's no urban or comprehensive master plan, and one of the risks is that Tulum will be like Playa del Carmen is today, overgrown and with environmental devastation.I will advise doing a lot of research before getting something in Tulum, different country, different rules, and practices.

There are lenders around the country offering those products.

If cybercrime industry was a country in 2021, it would have been the world's third-largest economy after the U.S and China, totaling a 6 trillion USD in inflicted damages.

PayPal is the only commonly used app in this country that handles transfers between countries and it is quite expensive.I've chosen wise.com for my international exchanges. 

Right now commercial rates are more like 6% with a point. the only loans from banks I see tied to prime are vertical construction loans or horizontal construction loans.I had the same issue with I had maxed out my rental loans with lenders like Country wide and Wells fargo that reported to fico..