I hope to manage our houses when I decide to stay after we have children.

I try to treat them like the children that they are. 

If your like I was when I started, I was young with no children and no major family that demanded much of my time.

I'm an engineer by training and put a lot of stock into mathematical modelling and analysis.In many aspects Canadian real estate is not that different than U.S.A. real estate, but there are some significant differences: the national market, and most individual submarkets, are smaller (~1/8th the population); prices are higher (we did not experience a corresponding correction in 2008/2009);taxes are {generally} higher;lending is different: {mortgage} lending rates are lower; mortgage terms are shorter; qualification requirements seem to be a little more stringent.Le Bon Homme Sept Heures is a fictional folklore character used to frighten children in an effort to make them more wise .... there is a similar character in English, but when I wrote the above, I could not recall the name ... and I'm still drawing a blank.

The you can say "Mary suppose I would pay $xxxx on your car or furniture note?"

My view is that pests are landlord responsibility unless the tenant caused the problem  I had one set of tenants who had their furniture stored on his fathers farm.  

If the tenant has been there for a while and just "discovered" bedbugs after bringing in some used furniture that they purchased off of craigslist, etc then I get the tenant to pay. 

The one thing you CAN say with respect to children is that because children are occupants, and only a certain number of occupants are allowed per bedroom, that if someone has too many children for a rental you can let them know that their occupants exceed the limit allowed by law. 

Their children are grown adults now and still live in the same 1 bed 1 bath unit with the parents. 

My children are now living like I did where our ceiling is someones floor.