Its more geared towards US investors but there are still quiet a few canadians here. 

I am gearing up to start searching for these deals. 

Our lenders that are geared toward rehabs don't care if the home a home is functioning, just if the repairs are figured into your numbers and the deal makes sense.

There are some useful principals, sure, but much of it is geared toward the corporate world usually.

If the 1% was to be constantly followed My market along with Toronto and Vancouver would technically be terrible investments, while historically they have been very profitable.If you shoot me a PM I will send you  a basic spreadsheet geared towards the way I evaluate.

Let's shift gears and assume you are looking for 100% financing for your next investment property. 

Buildertrend is geared towards builders, not property management so I'm not sure there's a fit but I appreciate you weighing in.The Buildium feature is still a problem with Yodlee and they are taking well over a month to address it so if anyone else is experiencing this auto-reconciliation issue, let me know here.

If it is better than what the IRA is invested in today, and better than passive investments such as hard money lending, then you are getting the best results for your IRA with this strategy.If UBIT is a road block for you, then you switch gears and either have the IRA be a hard money lender to flippers and produce passive interest income that will not be taxed, or you buy-fix-rent and then sell a few years down the road to turn the property transaction into a passive rental, so that when you do sell, there is no tax implication.It is possible to combine your IRA with your wife's when making investments, but it gets more complicated when you do that.

If I were you, I would listen to the podcasts that are geared towards flipping and see what works best for you and also what kind of properties you want to get into (single family, duplex-fourplexe, apartment complexes, commercial) and also what area of the market you want to work (low, mid, or high).If you are a reader there are quite a few books available through here, J Scott wrote a few and there is the Ultimate Beginners Guide.Hope this helps

I'm more geared to buy and hold starting off but definitely plan to become more knowledgeable in other aspects of REI.