I have had many conversations with her friends about the differences in our markets and  have recognized for a while now that there may be some mutually beneficial opportunities to work with Canadian investor specifically. 

Look up the courses taught by Justin Kivel, specifically the Pro forma modeling course and the real estate financial modeling boot camp.

While Im currently focused on helping investors build their portfolios, Im also planning to start investing myself in the near future.

The markets open up if you are not planning on doing the management yourself.There are many markets that are growing in population and jobs throughout the country if you are willing to look at OOS investing. 

If you have any tips, resources, or advice for someone just starting out, I’d greatly appreciate your insights.Some specific things I’m working on right now:Building a strong buyers list.Identifying motivated sellers and honing my outreach.Learning the ins and outs of structuring win-win deals.I’m open to partnering, collaborating, or just grabbing coffee to exchange ideas.

With the exception of building a trailer on the property (these are hard to finance), this sounds like a good plan AND if you are using it for your business AND your business pays more than 50% of the rent (if you have more than 1 tenant), then this is a more financeable property in the eyes of banks and credit unions as it would be consider a commercial "owner-occupied" property. 

Good call, getting multiple bids is definitely the plan.

If you like help structuring this deal differently to give you more leverage, let me know, I've worked with new investors on game plans and seen others start with 90% LTV on their very first deal.

For example Hospitable has a option for this through there direct bookings payout sections but it is only for specific states.

Just as an aside, both plan to keep their owned real estate and lease it to the business buyer.I like that because it makes the business much easier to sell.