Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.The City of Detroit has 183 Neighborhoods we’ve analyzed.PM us if you’d like to discuss this logical approach in greater detail!

I was extremely humbled by people and their excuses when it comes to paying rent on time.

This thread is extremely interesting!

@John Matthew Johnston 80% of the time, it's a thankless job:(You're never fast enough for complaining tenants, nor fast enough or cheap enough for owners.To have any chance of success, you have to be extremely organized, or every day starts with your hair on fire!

New owners are normally at 2 extremes...

Wholesaling teaches you an extremely valuable skill in RE: How to find off-market deals.

It's been extremely underwhelming, not that costly but it's pretty bad. 

This is extremely useful intell.

Tenant screening is a big task and extremely important.

I'd done some reading in the past and thought a few of the main Canadian banks had such specialty trust divisions that could help you with plan setup.As for finding investments, networking with other investors, real estate agents, etc. is the way to go.Brian, from what I've heard is that CAN banks  make it extremely difficult to setup.