@Carl Flint  These properties are NOT producing $200 or even $100 cash flow when I run the numbers. 

Restage and get actively producing income to resale How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

If you were ok with living there and paying a couple of hundred dollars a month, that might be better than paying $1000 in rent every month or paying an entire mortgage yourself.Ideally you would always go for as much cash flow as you can, but sometimes starting with a house hack, really produces cash flow for you by helping you save more money every month.

If you find a property that while you live in it produces a -400/month cash flow you just removed 600 from your monthly expenses while paying down a house.

I ask that, because that’s a very tough market in Halifax right now, unless you are outside the city like Yuan said, however you can still find duplex’s for under $400k, which could probably produce similar returns to two single family homes.

Then we just purchased a 4-plex in Albuquerque which is producing positive cash flow.

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Cost segregation can indeed produce excellent results in such situation for investors who are able to utilize their losses.

These are the same people who will post, boasting about raising the price of the laundry by 25c and that this will produce an extra $4 a month in income.

Couple this with difficultly producing new construction and you have a market where rental demand is always high, leading to good options for long term buy and holds.