Do not give in to lifestyle inflation as the better w-2 jobs come along, raises, and bonuses.

Broker's often offer sign-on bonuses like free or discounted business cards.

I’ve read quite a bit about the demographic challenges that parts of the Maritimes face so I wouldn’t expect significant price appreciation in the foreseeable future, but I’ve always focused more on the cash flow and viewed any appreciation as a bonus.

Are there any incentives available to build bonus units by providing a percentage of them for affordable housing? 

Lot of people in tech have done very well and get/got huge bonuses.... 

On top of considering the bonuses of mortgage paydown, tax advantages, and appreciation (even if just as a tiebreaker for appreciation since its not guaranteed), you also need to dig deeper into the second question.

It's all coming together quite nicely, and thanks to all the great insight from this site and from many books, my standards for cash flow have gotten extremely high, and we're killing it on our COC for the most recent three properties.Where we are now is...we just got a very nice cash payout from some complicated circumstances surrounding my wife's company being bought out and all retained employees getting huge retention bonuses.

This is a bonus.  

Some owners just do not charge for the patio and let the tenants have it as a bonus.

Unit 1 is 2/1 with unpermited bonus room and unpermited 2nd bath making it a 3/2 in a sense which I assigned a 2 car garage as well.