You had great advice in this thread!

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With the high housing market in the past few years, house-hacking and living "rent free" is very tough almost everywhere in the country, especially if you are planning on putting <20% down (higher mortgage payments + PMI).

I have a Wynd sensor in my units (mention that we have it and it's 99.9% accurate in our emails), put it in my house rules that it is a $250 fine, and have a sign small above the detector with the same language.

FSBO (for sale by owner) sellers get sued more than any other group in real estate.

Quote from @Jessie Marie-Luce: Can anyone please recommend a great property management team in Calgary, AB (Canada) area?

Greatly appreciate your time and perspective in advance.

Generally the time horizons are longer and you need deeper pockets.If you have already had some success in SF rehab, moving to apartments is not as different as moving to development.

Would love to discuss and try to navigate it. 

Trying to figure out the proper, best, and alternative routes to making meaningful relationships and wondering what the most effective means is to developing leads that may come along in the probate process.