Originally posted by @Lucas Machado:@Matthew RembishHonestly - if you're markets competitive - you should consider dispensing the agent altogether.

Should I avoid print marketing altogether, or is there a group of motivated sellers that would be best for print letter marketing?

You could buy property in two different neighborhoods and hedge or in two entirely different cities altogether.

Love to connect and share my experience here.Seeing you are from Miami, that's a different beast altogether.

I would forgo altogether the decorative fence too. regarding the driveway & sidewalk I would recommend not adding a brick ribbon.

Sell it all and give up on REI altogether?

Key items to rehab on the second home to bring the property value up for the refi, determining which lenders/servicing companies will be favorable, Identifying good properties to invest in altogether.

That's the only thing that would change for me if I found out this information about a rental unless you want to change strategies altogether and flip it. 

I did try a few arbitrages in 2018-2020 and I think altogether maybe a breakeven.  

The fact the seller is becoming the mortgagee is a separate matter altogether - though in both Canada and the U.S.A., it affords the seller the ability to defer capital gains over several years.