I understand this may prevent me from getting the absolute best terms on a HML, so I'll turn to professional before I settle on a lender, but I'd like to start the shopping process on my own.

@John Voychick I'm so sorry to hear about your experience, it really pains me to hear about people getting subpar treatment and customer service I always listen to people's experiences to make sure that I can prevent these kinds of things from happening to my clients.

I even had preventative maintenance set up, but the root growth rate was unpredictable.

Clay soils mean that drainage is really important to prevent foundation issues.

There are, of course, also things like politics and tax policies preventing the New York side from developing its tourism sector to be on par with Ontario... 

Trump has said many times in recent days he wants to prevent evictions, but his latest executive order does not ban evictions.

In our student houses we use a programmable thermostat, but our building monitoring system has its own sensors and can override the wall thermostat and will not allow the temperature to get below 10C (50F) ... we are presently testing a new software load that will also prevent them from cooling the house too far in the summer.

We anchored the top of the machine to the wall to prevent it from tipping over.

I only give them a short time (usually 5 days total from the contract to hold) to meet for the lease signing before they lose their exclusive rights to the unit, so this prevents someone from dragging their feet after they've signed the contract to hold.Once the lease is signed, I take down the ads and send out emails to people in mid-marketing flow letting them know that the apartment has been rented but I will reach out if something falls through.

Restrictions are placed to prevent potential buyers from acquiring those properties before they are disposed of by banks.