Meet with financial advisers/wealth managers and see what other options other than real estate there are and how to best allocate / diversify. ie have you maxed out your TFSA?

Could it attract squatters, or is it the right move for responsible property management?

Do you have a property management company you use? 

Spend a little more money than you might have been planning to, buy in a better area (i.e. not a “turn key” 100k house off the mls), and self manage.

If you invest in RE, whether active or passive(management team, syndications, crowdfunding), I'd love the chance to quickly explain the structure and hear your thoughts on what might need to be improved.

Our manager’s credit score requirement is 550, but even that has been hard to satisfy.

In the past two years we have completed over a dozen flips, We are holding 20 rental units self managed and 2 self managed Air BnBs.

I am hoping to learn about managing my own property and how to get tenants. 

Servicing tasks can be outsourced to administrative assistance and new agents.If you have trouble with time management make this a daily habit.

From what I've heard, local banks are sometimes more flexible than the big guys.A buddy of mine managed to snag a HELOC on his rental property, which isn't always straightforward, but it opened doors for him.