Exact ROI can be tricky to calculate I believe because RE ROI incorporates a variety of factors such as purchase price, rehab, loan pay down, appreciation, cash flow, exit strategy etc.  

Not knocking anyone who invests in their personal name, but my plan was to incorporate right from the start. 

I'm a 24 yr old early in my career in corporate finance working for a CRE brokerage firm and I'm interested in getting a real estate license to 1) learn more about residential real estate markets before I begin my investing journey and 2) potentially earn supplemental income as an agent.

I work in corporate America and and just don't feel like that's where I want to spend the majority of my life. 

Here are things I would like to incorporate into my cashflow analysis:1.

We're open to any direction anyone is willing to give us as to how best to get started, financing, networking, incorporating, purchasing, contracts, negotiating, wholesaling, etc.  

I did not get incorporated which I should have so I am not sure if that strategy would work for me but I would like to hear more about it!

As a Canadian investing in the U.S.A. you will most probably want to have a Canadian Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC) and an entity incorporated in the U.S.A. which is a 100% owned subsidiary (child) of the Canadian corp.

I have worked in corporate America in the Steel and Auto industry for over 20 years in various roles from Design Engineer to Operations executive.

It requires a continuous active day-2-day operations.There is many many aspects to this but end of day it all boils down to the defining difference that STR is NOT Real Estate Investing, it has a component of such, so STR can and most often does incorporate Real Estate Investing but it is, not in and of itself, REI.