Firstly, Canada did not experience the mayhem that occurred south of the border {though several of our real estate markets could have used a haircut}.At the time, I had been working with telephony/network providers and brick & mortar retail companies around the world for many years designing and implementing network/communications security.  

The affordable housing shortage at this point is bordering on ridiculous.

We have one under contract on the border of Napa County and Sonoma County at 65% ARV and 12% ROI.

The 10 additional lots are ready to build on and an additional 10 acres borders the property.

No, they are actually on the Tosa/Milwaukee border, right by Menomonee Falls Parkway.

If you're looking at Kansas CIty, I would encourage you to look at both the Kansas and Missouri side of the border.

When I got in the Timber business in Oregon same thing the mills just stuck and add in a local paper and waited for timber owners to call a log buyer.. well I put a data base together of every timber land owner form OR> CA border to seattle over 10k of them then called them on the phone for appointments to give a free analysis of their timber patch. when our competition would just drive around knocking on doors. and Rural folks NEVER get called .. so our telemarketing was uber successful.. most folks had never got a solicitation at all  we had a 5 year run of 50 to 80 jobs a year each about 20 to 60k in net profit.. it was big money and a bunch of fun. .by far the most fun I have had in the RE game in 42 years.. building houses and loaning money is OK but not nearly as neat as logging.

So it borders on illegal from that perspective.

Check with your accountant for cross-border and taxation issues etc.  

Sure it matters to some, but plenty of others would rather look over the Eastern Ave border into west of the river Maryland (Mount Rainier, Hyattsville, Riverdale), which doesn’t have the stigma and issues (real and perceived) of EOTR *AND* first-time homebuyers with higher incomes and lower savings l can take advantage of the lower price/higher tax dynamic in MD for down payment issues.