-Out of CanadaKeywords: Canada, Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Halifax, Montreal

The idea of closing the 1031 loophole has been proposed in Congress and the Senate for decades.

In Ontario (Ottawa) people with student rentals, do you include all utilities (heat / hydro / water) in the cost for students, or do the students pay the utilities on their own (split the costs between them)?

For those of you who care about the broad economic outlook in your investment areas, here's the recent economics report from this month. http://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/b2fb1607-cbaa-4d20-871f-c58170cbf5c0/jec-state-economic-snapshots-september-2016.pdfIf that link doesn't go through, google for 'senate state economic snapshot September 2016' and you'll probably find it.

Ia m from Ottawa too and just joined.

Or even in Ottawa?

No tax plan has been put forward by the House or Senate.

I've spoken to Ottawa Mortgage Brokers about this, and they have private money lenders that will base their loans on home value and rental/flip potential rather than your personal financial situation.

Even if Gillim wins the governorship, and if there is a major blue wave that swings the state senate, the Republicans will still have a major majority in the state house that will temper a lot of those initiatives.Source: http://mcimaps.com/floridas-2018-state-house-rankings/

Further, as I testified during the senate committee hearing downtown, I agree that housing should be a right.