Im an investor located in Toronto with a few multi family projects in the GTA. Looking to connect with other investors in Ontario or other provinces to gain a better understating of cities/regions outside of my realm ...

My wife and I moved here from Front Royal, VA due to our expanding family. 

I never hear Canadians talking about depreciating carpet for 27.5 years (kinda gross actually), so I'm assuming this is another '1031-exchange' thing...a great American tax strategy that doesn't exist in the True North strong & free.

Does your condo board also accepts only cheques for condo fees? Mine does not accept anything else and are refusing to change that. Wondering how commonplace that is. Thanks.

It's a house with a unit upstairs and a unit downstairs that I rent out on a buy and hold strategy, as cashflow here isn't anything like it is in the US, and appreciation seems to be the main method of real estate investment here.Note that all prices below are in Canadian (CAD).I got a bit lucky in that the market here exploded and I did really well with my investment.

I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions for reputable wholesalers and project managers in places such as Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland and others.We are looking to finance the flips completely by ourselves (purchase, holding and reno costs) so we won't need any US hard money lenders as we have heard that it is very difficult for Canadian investors to get good financing for flips and buy and holds.

Must be Canadian thing, call it value-add here  :)

Hi Ian, Nice to see a fellow Canadian on here! 

Socialism is still a major force in Canadian politics today, and that is well documented. 

@Brittany Alexander I'm an ex-pat Canadian and I gained commercial real estate investing experience by tagging along with my father (commercial RE wasn't his main business, just where the family parked their money).Currently, we're focusing on deals in Texas as we feel this has the most attractive combo of economics, growth, investor-friendly laws and lending opportunities.