I am in the process of purchasing a duplex and using a rehab loan to make a mother in law suite in the basement.

I think with knowledge and experience, the success and money will surely follow suit.

Welcome to BP Krysteena.There is wealth of information available here.Read through it, listen to the podcasts, and decide on a strategy that suits you & your situation.Take action and you will succeed.

What a great conversation and so many good points.Agreed this will do little to the housing market in vancouver BC, as it was mentioned the foreign buyers are generally buying over $2m and so a few less sales, if at all will do little to the average house.The CRA does look at companies with majority foreign ownership more closely but setting up a Holdco would only be for very wealthy buyers buying many properties to make the structure worthwhile.Politically they needed to do something and hence followed suite with other countries like a Australia, (where I am from) which it did little for the local market and average joe who still cant afford a house and many rent for life.

Whether you want the seller to pay your closing costs or mow your yard for a year in a chicken suit, if you both agree to the terms, it's a deal.The absolute simplest way to get your closing costs paid would be to offer to raise the purchase price by the amount of your costs and have the seller pay them out of pocket.Another is to tell the seller that the closing costs must come out of your down payment. 

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If you look on your county clerk site, "court case search", or similar, you can see the foreclosure suit case docket to determine where it is in the process.  

There are deals that you can spend a lot of time finding yourself that may suit you better or you may want to use the help of others and save a lot of time and effort.There are a lot of ways to make money in property.

He suggested 4 suites which would cost $35 a sq ft (not sure if this price is good or bad) to build. 

I do always try to work with leavers because i too don't want them there if they don't want to be but I also try not to pick them unless the short duration lease also suits my needs.