As long as you're prepared to be a landlord and live next to your tenant for at least a year, house hacking is a great way to get started.

I'm assuming traveling nurses don't know many people in the area and would know someone to live with. 

They have already called a real estate agent to list on the MLS and when the agent comes over to take the listing, they tell the prospective seller that the dog poop in the living room has got to go.The rot in the bathroom behind the toilet needs to be fixed.

Add to that there is currently a ban on foreign buyers in Canada (only a few exceptions and as far as I know they all involve living here).Capital gains taxes apparently used to be higher (before my time). 

You can now live on that $200k if you want. 

However, if you choose to stay there for a bit and sell you'll get the first $500K of profit tax-free if you've lived in it for at least 2 out of the 5 years prior to sale.

Are you saying you want to STR rooms in the unit you are living in?

But today, my husband and I live comfortably, and we’ve traveled to 20 countries over the past few years.I’ve been listening to BiggerPockets since 2013 and was even featured on the Rookie podcast.

I live in the Washington DC area, and I would love to connect with anyone willing to. 

If you're living in an A area and cannot afford an A area property (hard to find anyway these days) and you need to drive a while to even get to an area you are interested in, door knocking is not for you.BUDGET: can you afford to do 1000 postcard mailings a month for 6 months straight?