@Ed Adelino - I transitioned out of the retail field as well and live right up the road in Beverly.  

The transition to a full-time realtor/investor is well on the way!  

I have passed my exam and am still working in the construction management field, so I am looking for an easy way to transition part-time (2-3 days a week) into real estate.   

Likewise, in transit packets can be 'sniffed' at line rate with (now I'm showing my age) Wandel & Goltermann packet trace/decoders.

My wife and I live and own a duplex in a part of town that is growing, easy to find tenants, and has solid market rents.  Our unit is the "owner's unit", meaning it has stainless appliances, hardwood floors, and grani...

@Adam Rothweiler Sounds like your making the transition from SFR to commercial so the likely 1st purchase would be a smaller building that will likely attract mom & pop businesses.Most folks don't go from SFR to a plaza with a grocery store as the anchor.When you are screening the mom & pop businesses there is no reason not to run a credit and criminal check on the owners themselves. 

It was in a decent area with super close access to public transit to access downtown and surrounding areas, rents were under market vs. all the nearby comps.  

Be thankful he was honest with you and work with him to make a smooth transition. 

This policy was meant to discourage urban sprawl, and made it cheaper for the City of Toronto to operate, since it could use existing infrastructure (roads, sewers, public transit, etc.) to grow, rather than need to build new infrastructure. 4 – Yearly migration to the GTA There is a greater than 100,000 person net migration to the GTA every single year.

That means you will either need to sit on the sidelines from time to time and wait until buy-and-holds make more sense, be fexible and adapt your strategies to the changing market conditions (eg: transitioning from buy-and-hold to flips, and back again), or seek investments out of state.