-CharlsiThere is already a massive charity that provides housing to single moms, (among others) it's called Section 8. 

Dont worry about perfect brrrs and massive ROIs.

Specifically, the dramatic difference in purchase price and foreclosure rates in the States vs Canada.Granted, I'm sure that with enough digging, good investment options can be found in any market, but after a very quick comparison of my local market (Peterborough, Ontario, a city of under 100k about 1.5 hours outside of Toronto) with, for example, Buffalo, the price discrepancies are MASSIVE. 

@Rafal Soltysek I love that TX an TN are in the path of massive population growth and migration.

I say thankfully since it is not uncommon, especially in todays world, to have relatively small businesses filing in a high volume of states - it would be a massive headache to have to be licensed in all of them!

Food for me has to be over 100k profit per location, established for decades with multi-generational customers so just a freshening up of the space is needed and not a massive turn around, and gross profit margins of about 20%. 

When you see it from outside, now there is a massive stain in the vinyl siding that comes from the second floor, and it smells terrible like pee.In the second floor there is a tenant that I inherited and has a giant dog.

It seems she would be taking a massive unwise risk by doing this in a fiancé status. 

EPA is much more "sticky" than the other areas you mentioned- as you move further from Silicon Valley/The City (Dublin, Livermore, Lathrop, Stockton, etc) areas are seeing massive amounts of new builds and are very dependent on a few large employers/industries.

Prices skyrocketed from massive government actions and those actions first stimulated demand and later de-stimulated supply.People are not buying because they have more knowledge now...it's actually the opposite, transactions are at record lows.