I'm a full time employee at a research institution in Louisville who's interested in owning a small multi-family (4 unit max) as a way to gain experience as a landlord.

I'm a member of Community Association Institute and I will be studying for the PCAM next year.

Thank you @Linval T I look forward to participating and being active in the forums. 

I just don't see NP's competing well with for profit institutional investors.  

I don;t see why CF should be funding those deals especially when institutional money is 5% or there abouts.  

My present day job has trained me quite well to read people and their level of truthfulness.If some of the property is where I believe it is, the land should be fairly valuable and if a couple of the restaurants are what I believe they are, they have been in place for years and one of them is somewhat of an institution in town due to it's age...think a diners, drive-ins and dives type of place you'd see on the Food Network. 

Private buyers – both local and foreign – and, to a lesser extent, institutional investors and REITs, were increasingly willing to accept record pricing and highly compressed capitalization rates as the cost of entry to British Columbia’s coveted multi-family real estate market.Rising rental rates in Vancouver are also proving to be an incentive for investors to secure multi-family assets.

Glad there are others in my area participating in the forums.  

I've listened to the podcast for a few months now and joined the site a little bit ago, so I decided to start participating in the forums as well.I've been interested in real estate for a long time now and my wife and I are in a situation where we can finally start acting on our goals in the next couple months.  

Mike Slotkin, an economics professor at Florida Institute of Technology, said he’s concerned about the steep year-over-year home price increase.