But I know that many people look for "portfolio" loans rather than standard mortgages.

If you have great food and connect with people and maintain that standard the business usually follows.

While Paul provides you links to some good information in his standard form welcome message, keep in-mind that areas of finance, regulation and taxation are somewhat different in Canada ... and different again in PQ from RoC.There is a small active cadre of Canadians here on BP, so when you do have a question specific to home, feel free to give a shout.

The Scope Of Work is determined based on what is needed to do to bring the house up the standard used to establish your ARV.All items are broken down based on categories, and priced accordingly. 

There are still good people in low income who are responsible & deserve higher standard of living.  

My personal belief is, I would rather see newer investors learn what a loan is supposed to be with performance, good collateral and good credit and then learn lesser qualities of those standards before they learn what lesser qualities are as a standard.

What questions would be different then my standard rental application?

During that inspection period (not a weasel clause, this is standard in Texas with a small option fee), I have a contractor and/or other experts (if I suspect foundation or other special issues) fully evaluate the property. 

Business folk should be held to a higher standard, imho... especially if you believe that you reap what you sow.Thanks, Don

However, standard HOA's are governed by the same HOA laws that any residential HOA is.