A lot of that is due to the high US Dollar so Canada seems like a bit of a fire sale to a lot of Americans...and Mainland Chinese who are trying to get their money out of China.

*****CNN MONEY ******Kushner family in Beijing: 'Invest $500,000 and immigrate' to USBy Jackie Wattles and Serenitie Wang May 6, 2017: 11:56 PM ETThe Kushner family hopes to lure investments from wealthy business owners in China with the promise of American visas.Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, spoke at an event in Beijing on Saturday.

I'm looking to create my own little empire that I can use to supplement my income and then finally take the plunge to live the American dream while I'm still [relatively] young. 

If you guys are familiar with the tv show American Ninja Warrior, They are filming part of the show there in late April Ryan Dossey

Any advice as far as helpful books, article links, or just ol' fashioned knowledge from trial and error would be greatly appreciated.

Hopefully I can contribute in some fashion.

It's called the American Dream loan, 3% down and no PMI.  

Hey Fay, it's a bit murky, but according to an article by the American Society of Civil Engineers, "The ordinance applies to all soft-first-story wooden buildings—exclusive of those built for solely residential purposes and containing three or fewer units—and all wooden buildings built to building code standards that were enacted before 1978."

Here are some of the things I have used it for:Scraping military listings from USAA & Military By Owner.Scraping properties from a turnkey provider to get notified when new ones were added in a specific zip code.Scraping Padmapper for rental listings, and then reaching out the owners.Scraping state / county auction sites.That last one is particularly interesting to me, those sites are usually terrible, old-fashioned, government run sites.

I also wanted a job career doing something I can be passionate about while also not having my financial security being dependent on me getting up at 5am, 5 days a week, for the next 30 years of my life.In addition my grandfather has various real estate holdings in the Chicago and surrounding suburbs (vacant lots in up and coming areas and affordable housing) but unfortunately he's old fashioned and operates under the "fix it myself and save a dime" mentality.