@Joshua Dorkin  It looks great, but it would be nice to see the authors listed.

Sec. 8 obviates the entire mortgage balance in 4 to 5 years if you rent to their grant's designated tenancy profile without deviating. they also allow you to flip the building to the tenants profitably out of the box---if you (again) don't deviate from your chosen grant authorization's guidelines & tenant parameters. their main type of tenancy features a training component.

I like to send monthly statements via email to tenants, which also has our web portal to make online payments.  

Additionally, if you feel tempted to call upon one of the many {web based} companies that have sprung-up in recent years purporting to {help you} repair your credit - give this a read first, then say no thank-you, roll-up your sleeves and do it yourself.Your first step is to control your spending to be subservient to your income ... as Mindy pointed out, live within your means and be frugal to pay down debt and save.   

And you likely cannot even run a credit report unless you have express authorization from that person to do so. 

The tenants and those under the age of 18 should be listed as authorized occupants.

As for comps, there are some web-resources that can give you a basic value range for a property (see: http://www.biggerpockets.com/house-value-comps.html ).

Any excess owing can be placed against your Canadian claim.In the end, it should work out the same.

Marcus and Millichap, CBRE, Colliers, ARA Newmark and the likes usually have free research on their web site and many will break it down by property class. 

I own a lawn care business and a small web design business where I put the bulk of my "manual labor" while I have an absolute Godsend working for me who handles all our carpentry, repairs, etc.