I currently have my investment portfolio all in North Jersey and planning on purchasing a number of units in Syracuse.

Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

This criteria is for 1-4 and 5-8 unit programs.

Possibly staying in a place for a year, possibly in a smaller unit and moving on and renting it out.

I generally try not to sell my properties unless I have to sell in order to have enough proceeds to purchase a bigger and better property (and usually more units).

Multi-family units and investing for equity are my focuses to start, unless anyone has any other suggestions?

It’s a 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom unit that I’ve been living in for the past two years.

On some older properties where perhaps you have one water meter for 2-3-4 units or one gas meter for 2-3-4 units, or units that share hot water, something like that the owner might pay. 

You're right there's few units on the market, but they do come up and if you're ready to commit, you can find something.

. - Another exception to note on that foreign buyer ban is the number of units/doors for your investment: I believe the magic number is 5+ as this would be considered as commercial Real Estate- In Ontario, you will also have to look our for the Non-Resident Speculation Tax (NRST) which imposes about 25% on the purchase tax.