The goals that I hope to achieve through real estate investing are: 1) to provide a cash flow stream for my mother as she gets older and requires assisted living or nursing home facilities, 2) provide a cash flow stream for my younger brother (who has Down's Syndrome) as he gets older and requires assisted living facilities and increased medical attention, and 3) provide a means of early retirement for me and my older brother.While listening to BP podcast #276 (my favorite) the other morning, I had that lightbulb moment of how to get started in real estate investing. 

HUD homes are only available to owner occupants for the first couple of weeks, but because of the unavailability of money, investors were finding opportunities through the HUD market.As the banks started to lend again, the retail market rebounded and the HUD opportunities were getting scooped up by the retail market.Because of the availability of cheap money, investors began to leverage banks to achieve better ROI's on homes with lower cap rates.

House hacking is one of the fastest and easiest ways to achieve financial success.

It's vital to do this if you want to achieve long term success.

In markets like Indy, Milwaukee and Cleveland you can buy duplexes and achieve the 2 percent rule without it being in a war zone.   

Usually only achievable with fourplexes.

For cap rate, will it be able to achieve like 0.7 or 0.8% as a rough ball park in Edmonton? 

This has invaluable tools that may help for you to achieve your target price. 

She calls this ability to overcome short term obstacles to achieve long term goals, GRIT.

She calls this ability to overcome short term obstacles to achieve long term goals, GRIT.