A 1% rent-to-value ratio seems like a pipe dream as properties are operating at half a percent or worse, mirroring markets like Hawaii and California.

Fear not, because I've got seven creative ways to help you fund that down payment and get you closer to your dream of owning a rental house in Canada or the USA.

Give up on my dream for keeping this as my retirement property and use the new equity to go to war.

That's the dream, right?

The key is balancing your dreams with practicality.

But my dream and passion is investing.

One recent example, the seller purchased the building and dumped $500k into making it their dream vegan organic non-GMO ethical [bla bla bla, and so on, and so on] eating establishment.

As an eternal procrastinator, I never truly believed that I would be able to achieve my dreams.

Just never dreamed I’d need to worry about rent AFTER it’s in my account and one it’s way out the door to pay the mortgage.

Now’s where the unknowledgeable, the dreamers, and the people with a vested interest in people buying $25,000 mentorship’s chime in that I give terrible advice and I just want to kill someone’s dream.