Usually investors ask from an amount that they feel will have the buyer vested in the deal.

As a Canadian, I need the help of experts who can help me understand lending, legal, and tax strategies and implications.

Feel free to reach out with any questions. 

It is still a great house and we are going to live in it for a while and just feel it out :) thanks so much for your guidance.

Landlord tenant law has its own version of ambulance chasers that would love nothing more than to make a few bucks off of a landlord that tried to read further into a tenants life than just criminal history, verifiable income, credit score, and rental history.Logically, we would all like to be able to make decisions based on personality differences, family size, possible income drops, or whatever gut feeling we have.

But right now, it feels like I am solely holding these properties just to pay their maintenance company. 

Please, feel free to reach out.

That could be why you feel they didn't listen.

Feel free to email or DM me on BiggerPockets.Speak soon! 

We can guage market norms with this data.It's time that the over-inflated values of the early 2020's, that brought out every "expert" at how good they were, return to a more normalized market.