And, Amy, I'm not the kind of guy that gets jealous if my date dances with others, you'd be safe too, I've got some pretty fancy foot work with my cane! 

If you want to play it safe, assume that the place is going to need a gut job and run your numbers accordingly.  

What you have is very safe and you are growing equity that you cannot access readily.

Interesting reading about the Canada markets , I don't know Canada at all but I had spoken to a guy from Toronto recently and he was saying how so many investors want to invest there because Toronto is "such a safe bet , and never goes down". 

Know the rules, follow them and be safe. 

I notice several members here use account aggregators like Mint. I'd like to begin doing the same, but my concern is that many banks don't support 'screen-scraping', and they warn customers not to give softwares acces...

Get some security cameras from a company like simpli-safe and post them so you catch any cars with the license plates coming in and out.

As the most granular location-based targeting tactic on the market, addressable geofencing can target and reach every device within a home and up to one million addresses per media campaign. 

It keeps us safe, but it can also hold us back throughout our lives.

By doing this househack I get to, as safely as possible, get into my first place for only 3.5% down, learn how to find a deal, analyze it, buy it, rehab it, rent it, landlord/manage it, and I gain the confidence to actually be able to say I'm an investor and landlord, even if I'm still a young and dumb one, at least I can say I AM one.