Real estate will not be your magic ticket out.

Once you have experience and learn to budget for occasional big ticket cap ex items that every house has whether it’s 100k or 1M, it becomes really hard to make any profit.

Went to school 20 miles from the Canadian boarder where it was regularly -20 degrees in the winter, and we'd still rather be .2 miles from the bars & well over a mile walk/ drive from the actual school.I do see a lot of first time investors thinking that student housing is going to be their passive golden ticket, but quickly realize how much work it really is.

The way more challenging part is #1 finding the deal of course, #2 finding great contractors that would take on this type of project with payments to them working through installments, #3 finding great terms on your refi.My advice would be to look aggressively for #2 and #3, so if you do come across the golden ticket of #1, you are ready to pounce. 

- Most of my residents submit online tickets. 

@Alex Winfield I've closed 2 of these in the past year with 1 (possibly 3 in flight) currently.

things were in full swing and we had tumbled down a flight of stairs together.  

The only thing is, flights to Saskatoon are way more expensive than to the other two cities ($500 vs $120), which might be important as first-time investors… I’m also thinking that’s what a good property manager is for though haha. 

I've met Jim and Chris, both on informal basis's at the Haunted House which was a great fundraiser for Northwest Harvest and then as a guest at the suite for a Kraken Game (had my own tickets, just got a guest pass to the suite to hang out with my in laws). 

The law requires you to accept emotional support animals, but it does not give the tenant a ticket to violate basic rules.