there's no reason to partner that early in your career and give up equity - equity is the most valuable part of investing.

You are just earning some income.

., formerly HHC) earning a base salary and overtime pay that are nearly identical to what you posted here.

Firstly, well done for persevering and trying every avenue you thought would get you the data you needed.Most would have caved earlier and handed out there hard earned cash for old, saturated leads/records from the same prominent platforms which dump them pretty much when they receive them from either 1).the same large brokers AFTER the county has listed them on the county website or, 2). from the counties themselves directly AFTER the county has listed them on there own website, or, 3). from data scrapers on Upwork/Fiverr who scrape the data from those same platforms AFTER the counties/brokers sell those platforms the data being scraped by the freelancers.Anyway, rant aside you seem to of made the same mistake i made when I first started branching out away from providing leads to my original couple of clients i got from Upwork who wanted me to scrape data from court records in FL for pre FC leads.Simply, I didn't know where to look for the information I needed in states outside of FL.FL only allows the judicial route to foreclosure so I only needed to know/find/scrape the data from Lis Pendens documents for counties they requested.

Becoming an Agent sounds like a good idea, but is that a career you want to do?

You would pay us corporate tax rate, but the retained earnings could remain in the company and not be repatriated to Canada.If you are moving to the U.S.A. and will not be keeping a presence in Canada, then once you move you should not be paying Canadian tax on your world-wide income.

@Hsin-I Hsu  It depends on your long term goals, risk tolerance and earning potential.A couple of bay area sayings:   Any time you can afford to buy real estate you should.  

I’d say a save MINIMUM would be if you could earn that 5% return with 8 months of rent it’s better than the bank.

We fee like a conservative approach will let us go through the growing pains of better understanding real estate investing without the worry of being over leveraged to add to the stress while we are both still employed full time in our careers and do not plan on quitting our jobs to go fully into real estate. 

I'm 37 and about 8 years into my emergency medicine career.