At the meeting I found that the majority of people were new and/or simply not the kind of quality investor I could learn something from (ask me how I knew this and I'll explain).Without specifically naming the club meeting I went to (I will if there is legitimate interest beyond gossip), can anyone here recommend a good club in the GTA, where I can find specialists in:1.

...when you are mad that your husband replaced the disgusting refrigerator in your 4-plex when you were going to have it cleaned....

I don't know the quality of his work yet but anyone who would join the Chamber and attend meetings is less likely to be a crook I would think.

The advantage is that this is clean and easy and you're done with the transaction.

Often, the next tenant was already signed up before the old tenant was out.The past couple of years the quality of applicants has been frightening.

When a consultant is used, HUD does not warrant the competence of the consultant or the quality of the work the consultant may perform for the borrower.

When one of these tenants is a 'good tenant' which, more often than not, means they are little old ladies or men we do not raise them - OR - we raise them much less.Here is why...A successful full time investor in our area (who is involved with two of the REI clubs that we are members) argues that by keeping his rents down (by this we mean 80%-90% of market value) he minimizes turn-over, saving more money in the long run.He would say: look at vacancy costs, repairs, cleaning, advertising, opportunity costs, etc.

Of course, if the unit you are offering is pure junk, you will not ATTRACT a quality, albeit low-income, prospect.

The only thing I can suggest is to go and have a sit down with a couple of different management companies that specialize in managing vacation rentals and gather some information from them.There are a lot of vacation rentals in my area, but oddly, even though I know a lot of people active in several different areas of real estate, I don't know anyone who has vacation rentals (except for one friend with a B&B, and that's not really the same thing).The only thing I know about vacation rentals is that they are extemely management intensive and the management companies charge a substantial fee.You have turn over every week, and someone has to be there to clean, repair, asses damage, and inventory all the household items.

Most of the experienced members here do point this out to the get rich quick folks and shake a little reality into them.There are TONS of bad Gurus out there, but there are also many quality ones.