Without a spreadsheet, nobody can nor should give you any advice and the very last thing I would ever do is sell a property without having a seriously good reason to e.g. if I could make a significantly better profit.As for investing in the U.S. if you remain in Canada, I am not an advocate for owning properties when I am not hands-on and cannot have 100% control of every facet because long-distance properties have many inherent risks and have many additional expenses and inefficiencies that can bankrupt you.

I'm certainly not ready to handle 25 units and up in my business model, which, admittedly, also includes personally fixing or supervising the fixing of a great deal of what can go wrong with these properties.I would still advocate my own basic approach to this business to people who are thinking of getting into it through low-C-class investing in single-family and small multifamily like duplexes-quadplexes.

Piggy backing off of what @Tim McGarvey said. the area directly between the triad and triangle areas is blowing up right now. i believe that Burlington is one of the top 5 markets in the country right now or close to it.

I will wait 10 years if I have to rather than blowing my wad of cash on senseless investments that only make me age faster.Put another way.

She'll probably lie about it/ or blow it off.  

Many Landlords try to "soften the blow" by doing a small increase every month, every three months, or whatever.

Another good point, keeps everything with a degree of separation and legal-eagle so anything ever blows up it falls on the agent and brokerage, your not stuck in that legal seat alone. 

The problem is that weather can easily blow in from the sides so a cover only works for something falling straight down.

Get a 2nd mortgage at a fixed rate not a HELOC as that rate will likely skyrocket and blow your cash flow out.

I say every day, "we have our own personal and business problems we have to deal with and our tenants don't worry about us and they don't offer to pay more rent when he have a disaster like when a unit is flooded or when the wind blows a section of the roof off".