This coming weekend we were thinking of come out and checking the neighborhoods of few zips where there were houses we liked on MLS.

Hi, I had a painter who seems inexperienced who painted my house( referred by one other good handyman who gave up after taking half advance saying he got big projects cannot do these small jobs).

Do you own your own house? 

Thanks everyone.Annual T4 income: 250K380K in liquid investments.Principle property est. valued at 670K with 250k left owing and 155K heloc attached.Rental 1: purchased 2021 for 220K current est. value at 270K was a house hack with 5% down and $1600 monthly rental income.Rental 2: purchased 2022 for 280K 20% down current est. value 345K rental is $2000 monthly Rental 3: purchased 2023 for 267K with 20% current est value 310K rents for 2100 a month.

Save for a house hack in the meantime.

You have to understand the market, neighborhoods, numbers, and realize the risks involved buying houses "sight-unseen".

I was in flips and existing inventory in Columbus Ohio for 10 years and after old houses went over budget I started to modify my strategy to represent more of a market mover and new construction does this. it's been 2 years and haven't looked back.

One of the developers I work close with is getting ready to build 4 spec houses.

It's a very old house but newly renovated so there has been some maintenance issues because of the cold and poor insulation.

We actually have in-house underwriting that keeps our eviction rate under 1%.