Let's use that as an example. 20% down is $43,000 plus lender loan origination fees, closing costs etc is going to push you over $50,000 cash out of pocket.

The ADU is a good idea for property maximization, but unless it has a separate driveway, it will push your rent in the main house down some because then you aren't renting a single-family house on a lot by itself.

Sorry I didn't push you off of the fence.

Many of the OTAs and lead gen sites, like Furnished Finder, are pushing credit card payments. 99.9% of the time I get a message from FF saying 'your tenant would prefer to pay by credit card so activate Stripe now!' 

The recent consecutive mistakes have been so EGREGIOUS, that I honestly thought that it was either A SICK JOKE, or some coordinated attempt to push out some of their tenured clients.

Put an end date to this as well in case the closing date pushes out which could change things.

It’s pushing in.

Largely, the appreciation in housing prices is coming from both new migrants and investors coming from the East (GTA) as well as international countries (predominately from the middle east).We are also seeing drastic increases in the rental rates which in turn are pushing investment property prices up as well.

While that would be nice to build up a lot of money and save, however that would just push me back even further from starting my real estate future plans, careers, family, etc.

They are on a big push to get back in the game though, have you seen their recent ads stressing that they only list private homes?