Churches, alumni, fraternal & social work agencies, or organizations typically, along with thousands of arts, education, cultural & industry specific associations make a lot of effort to donate, or subsidize housing---in particular. if your mortgage is $ 300K at 6% apr using $ 2,500 a month in the first few years nearly $ 18K will be deductible. if you're renting to some tenants certain programs will filter far more inducements to both you and the tenant. obviously there are reasons that you'd most likely want to own units that cost $ 60K and rent for $ 1,500 a month to make even more sense out of these opportunities. when i was 23 my best friend a newly mented attorney, who lived with me pursued buying a 2 family home that the City of NY's Housing Development Preservation (HPD) offered us for $ 1. it needed about $ 150K of improvements. we were supposed to borrow the $ 150K at 1% interest under a very aggressive renovation schedule that returned the property to it's fully taxed  assessed value in 90 to 120 days; or we'd have to pay 2% apr for the sums we elected to borrow from an HPD aligned lender. my income was 3 times the lawyers; and i wanted him to live in another 26 unit apartment building we were developing under an even more lucrative program that allowed us to borrow $ 500K at 1%, if we ("I") put down $ 25K. i wound up renovating the apartment building on my credit cards and we walked away from the 2 family: due to the lawyer's reluctance to move into the apartment building. i actually felt that having him in my own apartment really confused the women that visited me.

There have been 3 occasions where the verbal offers materialized into a property visit and I have made 3 written offers none of which have been accepted.I have done all of this since October 1st, 2014.

A good starting point to learn the basics about money management for Canadians would be a visit to Gail Vaz-Oxlade's website or picking-up one of her books.Now, let me take a stab an answering your questions:1.

Of course if you own at least one camera and it may visit a job site and possibly get installed at least for a period of time who's to say it doesn't need to be removed and sent to the shop for repairs now and then.

, yet I have no choice but to do just that on my next purchase closing Jan 2nd.We let go of one, and keeping the one that was open to our inspection visit, had the unit looking like we just walked into a catalog and appeared to have no issues making rent payments.The one we are letting go, gave us such a tough time at unit inspection despite being notified of this multiple times by seller’s team.I literally had to request my buyers agent to call seller agent back and ask that something be done to facilitate a thorough inspection, that “I was paying for”.About 45 minutes later, said tenant let us in and tried to play nice.By then sadly the damage had already been done and I truly have no interest in inheriting such a tenant.Long story short, yes I hate the “we have always done this, or we did this…..”

Some times it's actually easier to have the tenant schedule the visit since they know their schedule and when they're available. 

I'll be in Denver tomorrow (Thursday, February 8th) for the big BP event. I'll have some time on Thursday afternoon or Friday morning before returning over the mountains. I'd love to see something cool or different th...

Not just the standard background/income/asset check, but an unexpected visit to their current residence will give you first hand exposure to what they live like. 

It is as least worth a week long visit to see what you think.

We'll be in San Juan area for our visit.