Construction is just now beginning on a huge k-12 charter school. 

Chamblee has charter schools that are tough to get into but excellent.  

Islands (such as PEI) and perhaps certain areas in other provinces may have restrictions - in the case of PEI, restrictions on agricultural land ownership apply to Canadians not resident to PEI as well.When it comes to a guide or outfitting business, I would suspect the restrictions to be around ownership of any charter or guiding licence.Now, if you want to buy an apartment complex in downtown Vancouver, the only restriction will be the size of your wallet ;-)

We did find one of the smaller chartered banks to be quite easy to work with and they let us get round the debt-to-income ratio once we've held the property for a year and we can show on our tax return that it's generating a profit.

Are there any other options such as Charter Schools?

Charter schools are essential to the improvement in some areas.  

For example, if you charter your LLC in your home state, your lawyer there might advise you to charter a Series LLC, which might not provide any protection in the state you're investing in!

We are insured through Ark Royal/ASI and the broker is Florida Chartered Insurance at 407-359-1009.

National Banks (Calif charters too) are too big to care and have huge bureaucracies to contend with. 

@Andy WelmersThe product offerings from Genworth and Canada Guaranty mirror those of CMHC as that his what is dictated in their charters.