Purchase price: $350,000 Sale price: $405,000 Operational automotive repair facility that worked on all makes, models, and types of vehicles.

I've been investing on Vancouver Island lately with great success.If you're interested in the student housing model, I'm very close to Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo.

Cash invested: $280,000 This is the location of our model home for all the single-family homes that we will be building in this neighborhood throughout the next few years.

As a limited partner, I would almost prefer syndicators go to a lower LTV model in the 65% range and with fixed rate debt to de-risk a bit and I would wonder if educated passive investors would be willing to take this incremental decrease in returns to de-risk.  

I thought that this would be a good opportunity to do renovations and also consider other rental models, such as furnished rental through Airbnb/travel nurses.

But other than a specific business model like that it seems risky.

If you want to build slower, the house hacking model is a great way to do it and to even start out. 

Do a search and find them.Here is advice I have given numerous times:If you want to go about your real estate business using some arbitrary price per Sf for rehab calculations, be my guest, but good luck being accurate that way.Let’s say you have two identical homes on the same street, both 3 beds, 2 baths and 1500 sf single story, model matches.

Very dumb model for long term outlook.

Their business model is scraping the internet for every furniture vendor and charging whatever markup they can get away with.