The numbers certainly don't meet my ideal criteria, however, when the second side is rented it would drastically decrease our monthly expenses and a newbie has to start somewhere.

Decrease expenses and increase earnings.

Provincial and divisive comments like yours do not encourage participation due to the lack of respect they show for others who may have a differing opinion from you and thus harm all members of the community by decreasing participation. 

If the seller is down one tenant, I decrease the offer price based on a year's rent that the unit should produce.

Its true that there is a big push in the past 6 months for hospitals to decrease the use of contractors, but ultimately there are unique dynamics at CMMC in particular that will create an ongoing need for temp workers.  

The alternative is bleak: undesirable areas with decreased demand for housing which causes declining property values and a high percentage of homeowners that have negative equity.

Also, this opens up the avenue of real estate investing because as the property appreciates and your mortgage decreases, overtime the rental income will slowly change into cash flow.Hope this helps!

It's ok to just decrease your living expenses while you're in it but it should cash flow once you move out.

if so I have seen a steady decrease in tourism to those area over the past 20 years that I have been going there. but we may be on the verge of a revitalization of semi close vacationing due to COVID 

Even with having a US based LLC, most of these programs (I'm assuming DSCR since you mentioned it) will require a personal guarantee and the lender will see that you and your wife are in fact foreign nationals, and decrease the LTV accordingly.