For that, you have to go to the interior - smaller towns, further from the border, more reliance on one industry for their jobs, lots more land to expand into, and so on.That's my take anyway :)*Clarifying my comment on Rent Control:- You can lease out your home/apartment/whatever for as much as you want/whatever the market will bear.- The control is in the increases: those are regulated province wide by the government.

It bears repeating: stick to your numbers.

Usually the listing price has absolutely no bearing on what the bank will accept, unless it's a preapproved FHA short sale.  

How you setup your real estate holdings now, will have a bearing on how easily they can be rolled into a trust down the road with minimal tax consequences.  

I will be asking questions and guys if i sound silly at times  bear with me.

@Robert Kenny One thing to bear in mind with the USDA Loan, they can take an extremely long time to close.

Remember as a rental BIG houses equal BIG repair expenses and big utility costs,,,will the market bear those on top of that kind of rent?

Should they drop the butt....absolutely not, but "dirt-bag" I am not that silly yet.Smokers have money.....many of them have LOT'S of money, might want to bear that in mind.

Some times there is still a mortgage on the property that the heirs have no desire to pay, and are happy just to write off that debt for what's owed.Just bear in mind that none of that really effects you the investor.

As long as you can prove you did what you promised this time, when applying for the next one, you will not get jammed up.You can in theory nomad your way into quite the RE empire if your family can bear the burden of moving frequently enough to satisfy your real estate goals.Put 5% down in your head so you can get PMI that drops off without having to ever refinance.