We have retirement accounts, a small private stock market account, and an emergency fund. 

Not it needs to be X% CoC or ROI, no short-term metrics.

Seeing 9-10% return On Paper, I couldn’t help but connect to the long term RoI of stocks.

Is it a long term rental or short term rental?

I would be buying into a sellers market in almost any Albertan city.Alberta also worries me as it is known to be super volatile for short periods of time and then sit dormant for up to a decade. 

"@ Frank ChinIn this specific instance, it is undeniable that a house was built on that property more than 15 years ago simply based on Google Earth data, but you can see by the county assessor records that the house on the subject property was built in 1950 and then the property encroaching was built over the property line shortly thereafter, in 1951.@ Matt Devincenzo,From the info in your post, the land does not seem to have officially been taken by AP.

The team is very transparent and responsive.In short, I have nothing negative to say and am overall pleased with the responsiveness.

The other is a full day drive, or a short/cheap direct airplane flight and we have family that lives nearby. 

We do all our loans as balance sheet loans, so that means short term fixed rates with 20yr amortizations and 20% down. 

I know a few pro football players that had short careers.