Wow, what a unique situation.

I used to live in Charlotte until about 10 years ago, so am fairly familiar with the area but haven't kept up with how some of the sub-regions have been growing.

This applies any time you are searching in either a new geographic area to where you are currently investing, or looking at a different asset class.For example, if you own residential rentals in Los Angeles, and go to Anaheim to look at residential rentals, that is the same general geographic region and also the same asset class, so those expenses may be immediately deductible so long as purchasing new properties is a usual and ordinary business activity for you.But if you go look at commercial property in Anaheim, that is likely not immediately deductible since that is a new asset class for you.Likewise, if you travel to Omaha or Cleveland or Raleigh, that's a new geographic area and that travel is not immediately deductible.BUT - as soon as you buy that asset class or in that geographic area, you can tally up all your prior travel to that location and add the expense to the basis of the asset.

So you need to either buy properties significantly under market value or at market value with great cash flow.Without getting into the argument about capex numbers, your opportunity here is in the 1% region.

Hey guys, just want to introduce myself.I own a landscaping company in the Ottawa region and have been listening to a lot bigger pockets podcasts to educate myself.

Currently investing in the Northwest Florida market, and looking at options to cash out refi these properties- I'm a Canadian citizen/resident, and have contacted several national/regional banks looking for a 75% LTV, however the closest I've come is 65% due to the properties being foreign owned.  

I know I live in a very unique MTR environment with more universities within walking distance of all of my properties than anyone else on this continent, but I do want to add to the list of potential tenants, visiting scholars.If your property is near a university or college, visiting scholars are also potential tenants for fully furnished MTRs.

Being new to REI and an investor from Canada, solid advice has been to not venture into an MF as a first investment and that to in a region with challenges.

In that same time period, there have been 1,655,290,000 unique visitor to Zillow.

Is it no longer possible to search members through unique filters?