Real estate is a wealthy persons game. 

FidelFidel,When I saw your question I got interested as most Canadian investors are rather running away (or pausing) from investing in RE in Canada.But to help in your journey, here's what I can share mostly from either my personal experience or discussion with relevant professionals. 

Even if you personally have just a modicum of design aesthetic sensibility, after reviewing 20 or 30 properties, you will quickly be able to get a sense of the winners.My 2 cents,Mike

I was very pleasantly surprised.I also built a tool myself, I had a lot of issues finding service person for different repairs need.

Welcome, great community here on BP but also in-person in Central Texas, definitely encourage you to get involved in the lots of groups and events in the region!

@Sarah Hadassah Negrón so you get a money judgment.Now you have to turn that into a garnishment action with the courts.To do that, you typcially need to have the tenant personally served - which means finding them or hiring a skip-tracer to do so.Then, what are you going to garnish?

For context when we do this our biweekly payments have been around $485 per paycheck so around $1,000 per month of lost income per person when we both do it. 

Personally that is what I wanted, an active mentor. 

In my voicemail, it states if they are interested, to "press 1 to speak with a live person" or "press 2 to be added to our do not call list".

I humbly submit I have personally done far more deals in these asset class's than scott since I have been doing it since 2002..