My golden rule for investing has always been not to buy a property I wouldn't live in myself.

Common causes of failure:Bad locations (self explanatory)Under-capitalized properties (insufficient funds to maintain property)Untimely balloon payments (and aggressive debt)Poor execution of business plan (inexperience or inattention)Fraud (people do bad things when backed into a corner)We are in the golden age of capital...it's everywhere and it's chasing yield in every asset class and on most every block in the country. 

I agree with the sentiment here but location, location, location is still the golden rule because it's a lot easier to find good property managers in good locations.

I'll put my 2 cents in here: I live in BC, and invest primarily in AB, but am keeping an eye on the changing landscape in BC right now, as well as the Golden Horseshoe in Ontario, with the changing market environment of rising rates. 

I feel the golden ticket for that area is 3-4 unit properties.

Hey @Cosmo DePinto,This is a pretty common question and its just like the golden handcuffs.

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Pat,If you're willing to stretch your search radius to Golden, I've been happy with Jason Schneider of Legacy CPA.

., like Ryan Pineda, Luke Weber or Kenny Carcerres.. you see there's not the one golden strategy (or i just haven't found it yet).I would not say all small MF are in bad areas, but many the seem to be affordable at first you might want to be REALLY diligent analysing.

@George Hunter - I'm an investor in the Golden Isles (St.