I acquired my first 3 properties with seller carry backs to cover the down payment and sub primes loans on the rest.

It would probably set us back 6 to 9 months on putting $30k down on a rental property and we'd also lose the investing experience.. starting 6 to 9 months later.Or.. should I just use the money at 20% down to acquire our first buy and hold since 2007?

Thinking of dealing with notes at first, to acquire a little faster return on my investment.

But, yes I will essentially acquire a property with 100% occupancy with tenants locked into those rents for one year.  

My brokerage has a focus in acquiring and managing investment properties.We are a family run business.

I would like to find out how to acquire listings like that.

There are other reasons to sell off one's holdings ... perhaps retirement.As you alluded, privacy laws in Canada make it far more difficult to acquire or create a list of landlords from tax or property records.You still may be able to access estate information in l'inventaire après décès (literally: inventory of the estates of deceased persons).

This is a GREAT way to acquire real estate if you have the flexibility to move every year.

My strategy is to acquire multi-family houses for cashflow.

Everyone should know how to acquire documents in their farm area and that can be done in a couple hours usually just by going to the courthouse and tracking things down within that system.Names of offices may be different too, as Jay mentioned the county survey office, we don't have one really that's in the loop, it begins at the Assessors Office getting the tax ID Number, from there, with that number you can get the plat map at the Planning and Zoning Office, with the plat number you can get the book and page of deeds at the Recorder's Office.