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Jamie Blair
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Finding a property owner in Canada

Jamie Blair
  • Brockville, Ontario
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I just finished listening to BP Episode 605 with Christian & Cody where they spent some time talking about reaching out and connecting with multi-family property owners that they're interested in. They find the name of the building owner by going to the tax assessor (for property taxes) website for the county their interested in, plunking in the address and voila. I gave it a try myself on a random US property and it worked well! 

But how do you do this in Canada?? I know that all land is registered and documents are kept with the Ontario Land Registry Office, but all documents seem to be behind a paywall. I did a search on my own property and voila, there's my name! But the government charged my $33.80 for the info! ouch  From what I've read in forums, it used to be cheaper, around $8, so not sure when the price increase occurred, but at that price, it's pretty hard to justify casually looking up properties and make cold calls for that price. 

Does anyone know of any other strategies? (Aside from simply going to the building, bugging a tenant, and trying to get the info from them!) 

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Anthony Therrien-Bernard
  • Realtor
  • Calgary, Alberta
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Anthony Therrien-Bernard
  • Realtor
  • Calgary, Alberta
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Quote from @Jamie Blair:

I just finished listening to BP Episode 605 with Christian & Cody where they spent some time talking about reaching out and connecting with multi-family property owners that they're interested in. They find the name of the building owner by going to the tax assessor (for property taxes) website for the county their interested in, plunking in the address and voila. I gave it a try myself on a random US property and it worked well! 

But how do you do this in Canada?? I know that all land is registered and documents are kept with the Ontario Land Registry Office, but all documents seem to be behind a paywall. I did a search on my own property and voila, there's my name! But the government charged my $33.80 for the info! ouch  From what I've read in forums, it used to be cheaper, around $8, so not sure when the price increase occurred, but at that price, it's pretty hard to justify casually looking up properties and make cold calls for that price. 

Does anyone know of any other strategies? (Aside from simply going to the building, bugging a tenant, and trying to get the info from them!) 


 In Alberta you can use Spin2 to find title information 

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