I'm more so interested in talking to individuals who have done Joint Ventures to purchase either SFH/duplexes/fourplexes in the city/area and hear your stories as to how you sought your financing to fund your deals (whether personal or lender), utilizing/opening corporations to facilitate you deals with other investors, and how you structured your deals so that everyone was contributing (whether with time/funds) and had something to gain so everyone was happy.Would also love to hear about local contacts/networking for lenders/investors that you may know of in these regards.Can't wait to hear from you all.

Just like every aspect of life these days big corporations are crushing small business people and focusing only on paying off investors. 

My wife and I jumped out in front of our tenants last year and we're sure to humanize ourselves with them so that they didn't feel they were just working with a big corporation or evil landlord whom they could justify not paying.

A single-family house or condo owned by a human (not owned by an REIT, corporation, or LLC) is also exempt from the statewide CPI+5% rent stabilization law (AB 1482 https://leginfo.legislature.ca...), although you have to include a notice in the lease that it is exempt.

Hi BP forum,My father has fully paid off his commercial building mortgage recently, so his Corporation has now 100% equity on this property.

It will open doors on corporate world, but not sure about investments.

@Christina Gillo1) Be the hardest working person in the room (corporate America) 2) Live way below your means and invest the difference 3) Always keep the ball moving forward (learn and never become stale in your job, life, etc.) 4) Put in long hours in your 20s to capitalize in your 30s

Based on my understanding, these pots of money are treated differently in the US vs Canada.The CRA changed its administrative position a few years ago to treat US LLPs as corporations for Canadian tax purposes, such that distributions from such an entity to a Canadian resident taxpayer are likely to be characterized as dividends.https://agtax.ca/cras-taxation...

In regard to returns, my REIT portfolio averages just over a 6% dividend yield and about 10% annual growth in price.As far as taxes, REITs aren't taxed at the corporate level.

I’m a newbie considering renting a fully furnished four bedroom, four bath single family home as corporate housing.