Quote from @Mackaylee Beach: I think these times (the last two years), and this year are the ones that will give birth to some of the best investors.

This is something that I have really come to realize over the last couple of months as I've been learning.I came into this expecting it to be complicated, and I am not disappointed!

It's been a few years since I last updated the list of providers (there are older threads on this topic here on BP), but at last blush there were five trust companies offering the ability to write and service mortgages from registered accounts:B2B BankCanada Western TrustOlympia TrustEastern TrustCommunity Trust CompanyOf these, Canada Western and Olympia has the best offerings at the time.  

I sold my Temple property last year and it was good timing.

Over the years, however, we’ve found that we end up coming down to Orlando quite a lot, especially in the last couple of years, and we end up staying in vacation rentals (Reunion, Championsgate, Storey Lake typically).I would love to simply pull equity from the current property but given that it’s a long term rental and we are Canadians, from what we understand it’s not an option for us.we love reunion but I feel that would probably not be the best for ROI.  

I am finishing my last semester before moving to Chicago for a full-time job in September. 

Where are your scheduled gross rents and effective rents so far in the last T12 months so we can figure out offense and defensive strategies.These would be the questions we'd go through in planning your steps ahead.

Hopefully the software has been improved in the last year. 

The parent must file a gift tax return annually, and any remaining balance is included in the estate.If the home was your primary residence for at least 2 of the last 5 years, you may exclude up to $250,000 ($500,000 if married filing jointly) of capital gains from taxes.

The last thing tenants want to do is lose their section 8 support, it takes years to be approved for it.