@Steven: excellent and inspiring!! 

I could not find how to upload excel sheet for this....

If it doesn't fit my model, then I move on, someone else will grab it up!

Not every project fits every investor, you need multiple capital sources with different appetites and goals.  

At this stage I'm just gathering information and trying to get educated about real estate investing to see if it's a good fit for me and my financial goals.

I do a lot of excel and google sheet formulas, but I haven't been able to get my brain around how to do it in this case.  

Most of the properties that fit the 1% or 2% rule are between $60-$200k.  

Brandon does an excellent job of defining and explaining many tools that can be combined to get your first investment.

@Diana B.If you will be purchasing property in the U.S.A. while residing in Canada, then before you even get on a plane, you need to figure out your long term strategy (i.e. to you plan to keep all earnings in-country to grow your business or do you need to bring the money home) and the best organisational structure to fit your current situation and help you realise your objectives.If you search Canadians buying real estate in the US here on BP you will find several threads which raise some of the ownership considerations when investing abroad (control of repatriation of funds; taxation; liability, etc).  

I have also been an investor in Jacksonville from afar, using a really excellent turnkey company with great property management.