Pre-con is speculation (gambling), condos have strata / condo corp to deal with and limit your ability to add value.

Just like gambling in a casino, you may lose several times and on one lucky day you win 5 or 10 times and walk away a big winner.

We are thrilled, as you can imagine. 

He was thrilled. 30 years later he's still buying properties and he still won't do it unless they're leveraged, even though he's got way more than enough cash to buy them outright.

As a borrower who has already maxed out the number of conventional loans allowed, I am thrilled to have another option for borrowing on investment properties.

@Mike A. there will certainly be the tenants who aren't thrilled with the change in cost.

Legalizing weed or gambling or other sin tax industries can raise money, but it also costs money and affects your community.

I also was not terribly thrilled to find that they had spent about a month trying to list the houses for rent without pictures in the listing. 

Timing is everything but it's also a gamble.

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