Another advantage to you buying property back home is when you visit for the holiday's you can potentially write off your travel and cost of stay as property management costs.

This may lessen your down payment requirement, AND give you a place to stay when you visit.

His actions say that he's actually fairly indifferent about losing the house (and perhaps he needs to be educated on this fact), but he probably doesn't want to immediately lose a place to stay.

Then I would be looking into the Kelowna market, I would stay out of AB for the next couple years. 

As far as small parcels I just don't see anyone building new homes in the area, then again I stay away from the city (Syracuse) and it's suburbs. 

My opinion is that the block-chain is here to stay, and that Bitcoin will be the failure that leads to the block-chains true rise.Real estate has centuries of proven performance, Bitcoin hasn't even been around a decade (and is A LOT more volatile in that decade that real estate has EVER been).

I live an hour north of Dallas, and would want to stay in that area.

A retail contractor deals more with one offs such as home owner remodels, an investor friendly contractor is expecting to do multiple jobs and stay busy, thus keeping their subs busy, and will do the work for less of an upcharge.Once you have those two numbers figured out then it's just plug and play like stated above.

When it gets that low, it usually only stays for about a week, and then it’ll fluctuate between low 30’s-40’s.

Then decide from there who your going with and just stay the course with them.