House flipping generally involves rehab, whereas speculating is just straight buy and resell.What is different now is the down payment requirements for buying second, third, fourth homes.

Canadians have a strong bias towards using Realtors and banks and generally don't know about the alternatives, so as a wholesaler there's not only the privacy issues, but a basic trust issue when asking a stranger to sell me their house.So Tiago, you suggest driving for dollars and just straight up knocking on those doors?

Moe Bruenger gotta grab that info straight from the county website.

Looking at the eave it straight left to right no raise of fall off at the corner.  

A bucket in the yard works but express that they cannot leave a mess in any nice finished lawn or driveway/sidewalk areas.Level 3 is fairly standard, so it might be worth confirming this is what they are quoting.Prime and paint is straight forward.

So your whole purchase price in total will not be depreciated, just a portion of it that is attributable to the value of the building (straight line over 27.5 years).

Now upon closing the contract on the home, we (me, wife, lawyer) set some things straight to I didn't get screwed without lube. 1) The seller had to pay us upon closing $6,000 to us, for future missed rent, and some other things. 2) Also, $35,000 of the sellers money went into escrow, just in case for some reason we only end up getting a C of O for a single family.8 months later, still no C of O, and I missed out on thousands in rent.

If he does not comply he gets evicted, it's very simple and straight forward.

They finally sold the properties as straight residential was better for them.

The investors in this deal have straight equity, and no preferred return.