The tenant pool can be lower end in Winnipeg but if you invest in the right areas it will often qualify for CMHC financing in terms of affordability. 

You should be able to get some people there who are qualified to do that kind of research for you. 

The building was vacant as we are remodeling the first floor and had just finished painting the 2nd and 3rd floors and were in the process of qualifying tenants to move in the following week. 

Oh also number one skill to develop regardless of the route you take is being able to identify and get in contact with motivated sellers.

This is a great strategy to use for beginners who want to get a foot in the door of investing while also learning crucial skills just as tenant management. 

This is a great opportunity to leverage your skills, and depending on your risk tolerance, you can continue to build wealth.

What I take some issue with is the techniques that guru's use to up sell and so on .. and they do nothing to qualify if the person paying them if the program does not work they are now into debt to the eyeballs and so on but then again who are we to say at some point.. think of  Hewlet and Packard they went into 15k worth of debt to start HP in late 40s or early 50s and that was a ton of money then :)

Sometimes you have to challenge the SOW and determine if everything really needs to be done in order to attract qualified tenants.

By creating pathways into skilled trades, we can pipeline our population into higher-paying, stable careers while building the capacity to support future development.

Develop those skills.