And without a garage full of tools I can't do many of the things and must rely on others (clean up, make ready, painting..).When all is well than rv'ing makes no difference and is a great way to meet others, see and speak with investors in other areas, etc. and see this great country.

I'm pulling for you to win the negotiation and make it down here to the most beautiful state in the country!

Posted about looking up bankruptcy is not the best way IMO.pacer.gov will allow you to search for bankruptcy cases.Or you can look up the phone number for bankruptcy searches for your region; there is a website that has phone numbers for across the country.

We had been flipping a few houses a year in Welland and then we move to Port Colborne when a great country property came up.The economy in Welland is not all that great now and we have seen a drop in prices there for a few years so we started flipping in Port Colborne.

Welcome to BP Nation Blake, you are in one of the hottest markets in the country right now, plenty of opportunities once you get educated on RE investing.

The properties still meet outside investors criteria as they get a property at a much higher cap than they could in spec states or in other countries.

. - yes, I am in the process of looking for an accountant, but it's hard when not in the country.

I have seen some sellers in this case taking a year or longer to get it going well again.Not saying you will do this but this is worse case scenario that sellers think of when getting asked to do these kinds of things.It would help if you have equity built up into other properties the seller could attach as security ( cross collateralization) in case something goes wrong.I wouldn't get too deep with this until you know the seller wants to even entertain such a thing.

Being born and raised in the USA, I have no experience trying to get into the country other than coming back in from vacation.

I think within this year I would have the money to buy a lower end house in a few other parts of the country that seem to make a lot of sense to me.