Keep your eyes on your goal & a year or two will fly by.I have saved 10,000 in my 1st house account and 3 months in my personal account and my teaching job is very secure year over year. 

Your mortgage is a 30yr fixed that stays the same, well rents go up...We're teaching a class on this in a few weeks.

So I was looking on Zillow for properties I could wholesale and I was just trying to teach my self to evaluate properties and determine if they're deals or not.

This is the trick I would like to teach you, would I rather buy a 1 acre lot for 100000 in nyc or a 40 acre lot for 100000 in Wappingerfalls, both nearby new york city, but in Wappingerfalls I'm getting way more land for my buck in which if you look at the two lots one have way more value than the other one and all you have to is get creative and build something that will get you the projections you are trying to create.

I can teach them how to wholesale but need to know what would be some of the legal requirements for them since they are Canadians.

I'm a member of the FI community here, and also teach personal finance/investment to local women interested in getting their feet wet in investing and real estate. 

Maybe something you know now that they didn't teach in class?

The most common portfolio style loan in Texas is a 20 year adjustable rate loan.

Join the Cirrus owners and pilots association its about 60.00 a year it has the most robust  BP style forum out there..

I have a feeling you'll need to have a big budget for renovations though to convert it into the style you're looking for.