A 1% rent-to-value ratio seems like a pipe dream as properties are operating at half a percent or worse, mirroring markets like Hawaii and California.

It is not easy to find good PM's but when you do they are worht their weight in gold and when you have a bad one you just want to sell the property instead of firing them.

Fear not, because I've got seven creative ways to help you fund that down payment and get you closer to your dream of owning a rental house in Canada or the USA.

That's the dream, right?

Give up on my dream for keeping this as my retirement property and use the new equity to go to war.

The key is balancing your dreams with practicality.

But my dream and passion is investing.

Tell the tenant that his opinion carries zero weight, so he must submit proof from an ACCEPTABLE expert to support his alleged foundation issue.Until then, he will be held liable for the terms of his lease, to the fullest extent of the law.

One recent example, the seller purchased the building and dumped $500k into making it their dream vegan organic non-GMO ethical [bla bla bla, and so on, and so on] eating establishment.

As an eternal procrastinator, I never truly believed that I would be able to achieve my dreams.