My goal was to retain the tenants by keeping rents lower than market, but still getting their rents closer to market so that I wasn't losing tons of income. 

Remote work has allowed a lot of people to retain their salary and live in places they can actually afford. 

In residential it is not all that common and the Seller most of the time will be satisfied with retaining any deposit on the contract.  

Since the Loonie's deep dive, we've not converted any more CAD to USD, but are retaining our US earnings in country for re-deployment.Last year we were close to purchasing a quadraplex in the rust-belt and had made arrangement to place a mortgage with TD Bank's U.S.A. operations - using our history with the bank here in Canada to underwrite the loan.  

The flip side of this is you would be earning a 12% bonus on any retained earnings repatriated to Canada {well, not quite 12% as the monies would be converted before you paid any Canadian taxes due}.In short form my advice would be:Identify your objectives before you begin;Research and identify the US markets in which you plan to invest and the segment of those markets (i.e.

You will receive an Addict award along with a habit; as well as learning and retaining useful real estate information without struggling.

Keep your insurance company as your shield.Finally, document everything and retain those documents some place safe.Let us know how it goes.

Unless it is a mega-corp with lawyers on retainer, they probably aren't going to want to spend money on lawyers to take it to court on the hopes that a judge thinks they acted reasonably.

I have a financal advisor on retainer for "asset management" but am trying to figure out what to do with my primary residence.

I have a successful PMC, retained rental properties, renovation company, BRRR's, syndications, MFR, among others.