I wanted to see if anyone on the forums as a portfolio that has a mix of these two types, and what rate of return do you see in comparing them. 

Read this forum post by Andrew Postell for a more advanced technique to pull out cash with no wait:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/460294-how-to-cash-out-1-4-unit-property

The options are pretty endless as I am sure you have been exposed to just reading through the numerous forums.

Ideally, it would send out reminders and also allow the payments to be exported into an accounting program.I see from the forums there are ones for US banks, and i was wondering if there is something similar for Canadian ones.Thanks

I’m pretty sure we can’t promote here on the forums.

I would talk with Tim Swierczek he is a loan officer on the forums here, but I would look at using your VA benefit.

I'm new here but I've been listening to the BP podcasts for some time now as well as lurking around the forums for the past few weeks so I decided it was time to introduce myself! 

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Account Closed there is an Ohio forum on Bigger Pockets.