Lots of great Canadian real estate podcasts to continue your free education:-Truth about Real Estate Investing...for Canadians-Breakthrough Real Estate Investing-Where should I invest?

If you go with a vinyl Click plank you can come in less than $2/ft on flooring.home depot or floorstoyourhome.comI have been adding restaurant style sprayer faucets off Amazon for about $60 and under cabinet lighting $40 to make a statement.

I'll third @Jake Thomas Bought my first investment property from him and he was and continues to be helpful. 

Mls fees, board association, e&o insurance, general business liability insurance, electronic key fees, licensing fees, continuing education, any fees your broker might charge, increased auto insurance rates.

So I’ve passed a couple houses now and then that continue to look vacant, after keeping my eye on them I’ve been trying to look for any signs of movement but have yet to see anything.

This would allow my family to continue to visit me and when they leave I can continue with Airbnb.

Please show me your bank statements to provide some amount of assurance that they have some number of months cushion so they would continue to be solvent in the case they get sick or in some way can't drive / perform the activity. 

The thing I continue to hear is that there are a million ways to make $1, not one way to make $1 million.

I will focus on small multifamily properties and single family homes in the short term and possibly trade them in Monopoly boardgame style for a larger apartment complex in the future.

I will gladly help anyone I can with my knowledge in other subjects while I continue to learn more about REI.