I have several friends who ahve abandoned them after years of haggling. the only way to get it done generally is to keep going over peoples heads in LAnds department until you get someone senior enough to get it done. 3 churches in our town have been working for 2, 4 and 7 years respectively to get titles through :-(.

Originally posted by @Jay Hinrichs:but basically there is so much more to real estate than owning a rental.. and much of it quite a bit more profitable than rentals as well.This is a great list, but I thought I should add REIT's and syndications, as passive vehicles for participating in just about any sector of real estate, such as multi-family commercial, offices, self-storage, senior housing and land development.

Question, can anyone point me in the right direction about the challenges of a US citizen getting financing in Canada?

The world is mostly miserable drudgery, and we 21st century, first-world citizens are very blessed.You're talking as if you have a choice between a new field now or 40 more years at your current job.

For info, I am a French citizen and US resident.

Interest rates are also usually significantly higher.If you're a US resident but not a US citizen there is a whole other layer of complications on top of all that but it seems like you were born here so that should not be a problem for you.Learned all that the hard way :)So if that can helpNick

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, CALIF.The urbanized valley near Los Angeles started gaining attention by the end of 2013, when L.A.’s rising cost of living has gotten to a point that was severely affecting even the wealthier citizen’s pockets.

(if you want to know more about what this, how to do it, etc ... join the facebook group "erentpayment discussion group" and search the threads for R10 or my husbands name Rudo Catlin) ... 3 of our tenants successfully got their money back today and have resubmitted the rent payments to us using zelle. and surprisingly enough the payment was deposited into out account SAME DAY with zelle. the 3 tenants banked with citizen, pnc, pescu and my bank is capital one. all 3 tenants were originally listed at processing (not deposited) in erentpayment. we only received erentpayment notification for one of these tenants returns. so you have to have trust worthy tenants who will tell you when they got their money back. we can no longer appear to have access to our erentpayment account. when we try to log in we get the following error code. 

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From what I'm hearing they are doing a lot of senior housing and apartments.