They claim to be practicing medicine, making diagnoses, and prescribing treatment based on an internet questionnaire that they apparently don't even read.

Or, alternatively, your down payment would need to be enough to allow the seller to pay off whatever existing mortgages they owe on top of the realtor commissions and whatever the seller wants to put in their own pocket on closing day.Realistically, most Realtors will want to see a preapproval from you, and they aren't in the habit of disclosing their clients' mortgage balance (assuming they even know it) to a random cold caller. 

That would be a really expensive alternative...

No one knew that alternating current would make high-temperature coal-fired furnaces wholly obsolete by 1940.So here we are today out here, surrounded by quite a few SFR properties built by people who believed they were building for generations to come in a very stable area.

Alternatively you can individually own houses anywhere in the country, or you can partner with others on deals anywhere in the country. 

They alternate foreclosures and tax sales every other week, usually. 

Alternatively, break down all the skills needed for syndications and see where you are a best fit.

Many of our conversations end up going down similar paths and I’d love to hear some potential alternatives to how we usually respond.

I should add- since its only a few months you would not get the benefit of LTCG treatment, so the plan is a really beneficial one if you can show the intent. 

Where I am struggling is when you take into consideration the tax due because the CRA taxes you on taxable income (where the big difference being that you can only deduct the interest portion of the mortgage payment so even if you cashflow positive, you have negative earnings after taxes), I find it very difficult to make the math work unless you put high % down payment.When you invest in Canada, do you only look at cash-on-cash return or because of the tax treatment in Canada, do you look at the taxable income as well?