My advice to u is to watch the podcasts starting from the first one and research different mortgage types.

Currently I am still have 8-5 job, but I dream that I can establish my own empire through real estate investment.I watched a lot of BP's podcast, and I believe I can learn a lot more from this forum :)Cheers,Amanda

Watching this process from start to finish I became interested in Real Estate, as it seemed like a very rewarding career, working with people and helping them with one of the largest decisions in their life.

This was a suburban area in GA.Another item if you pay utility is watching out for water usage increases even with no leaks from the city or county raising the water & sewer per gallon usage rates.

I'll watch this post.

Alternatively, every Canadian citizen is entitled to one free pull of their credit report per year - however, you will need to submit an application via snail mail to take advantage of this service.

I have watched my customers buy, hold, flip real estate for 16 years and decided I needed to finally get in on another stream of income.

@Joe FairlessHaving the right connection is applicable in many cultures and business and for Chinese it is the most important thing.  

Like Mark said, you have to look at rental restrictions, HOA fees and what they cover, and also watch out for special assessments that might be coming soon like roofs, painting, driveways, that can add several hundred dollars a month to the normal HOA fees.  

@Andrew Jambor Most of our clients that sell properties over million+ range use Single Property Websites I'm not sure if this would be applicable in your case but I have seen 22% faster selling rates and 1.25 million dollar higher sale rates in some extreme cases.