Meanwhile, Doug is out there doing new seminars on different topics: Freedom$oft is one.

Probably going to be an oft repeated question, but ..How much time did this house take from end to end?

Claude Boiron used to have a course at U of T, but I haven't seen anything recently.

I've used Freedom$oft for over two years now and have trained several of my Mentees to use it. 

In some states, you must be an MLO to negotiate short sales; in some states, you need to be a licensed real estate agent; in some states, it's basically illegal to market for short sale leads without crossing lots of T's and dotting lots of I's.That said, we did this successfully for about a year, until the short sale market dried up in that area (Atlanta).

I've got a waiting list of people that are tired of staying in a motel that want to move into a furnished house of mine for these reasons:Fully stocked traditional kitchen you would find in a house.Laundry room with a washer and dryer.Living room with cable/wifi/streaming HDTV.Your own bedroom with tasteful paintings of T/A.An outdoor grill.It costs less than a motel room.You can also shoot a bow/arrow or pellet gun in the back yard. 

Say only 17% of condominiums are being offered for rent, then the 1.7% vacancy, among all condominiums - owner occupied and those being offered for rent - is really 10% of those condominiums being rented.Big difference between a 10% vacancy rate and 1.7%.Maybe I'm just late coming to this realization, but its the only way I can make the oft quoted vacancy rate jive with the numbers produced in CMHC's Condominium Owner's Survey (COS) report and other sources.Perhaps those of you in the Big Smoke might be able to shed a little light on the above measurement of vacancy for condominiums ...

A seemingly obvious, but oft overlooked tool for scouting OOS neighborhoods is Google Earth.

I asked this to someone on BP privately and it seems to be a common misconception, oft repeated that you can't charge your own time.You can charge your time but make sure it's reasonable.

As long as you are bringing something to the table, you can make this work -- so long as you back it up with persistence and a positive attitude.An oft repeated line is that if you can find a good deal, you can find people who want to invest in it.