I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and have recently embarked on my journey as a real estate investor.I aim to build a solid foundation in real estate investing that allows me to achieve financial freedom.

Should I refi and get extra cash immediately or should I refinance and lower my payment to build better cash flow?

Did you have enough reserves, build from the gross rental income?

It sounds like getting furniture and appliances to these places isn't an impossible task, but for my own peace of mind I think I'm sticking to places that aren't that difficult to access.

If you can build AI to compile all information about a homeowner to score and rank homeowners based on their likelihood to be motivated I would pay good money for that.

You want to buy a rental at some point and you're building up your cash.3.

The math works out online and tenants already live in these buildings so I know they are liveable; that said, I have not visited the homes or made contact with the sellers. 

I can send you a list of contacts in Ohio to help you build your team, property manager.

The area was up and coming and I have a background in building multifamily.

Since you have very little evidence of what the condition of the unit was before they moved in, it’s difficult to assess tenant “damages”.