I welcome any feedback from your own experience on this.Also interested to hear your thoughts on how you forsee real estate investment opportunities changing for the worse or better in light of the current shifts in our economy (oil prices dropping, stocks beginning to pull back, interests rates soon to rise).Thanks again everyone for your wealth of knowledge and look forward to the day when I can help someone out like many of you have done for me already, while building meaningful relationships.Cheers!

After all, the risk of roof leaks tends to rise as the age of the roof rises; the insurance company wants property owners to do things that lower risk. 

With the interest rates on the rise, I will get as many mortgages as I possible. :)

Most so far have renewed with 2 years, and it's usually still a slightly higher rate than the first year as rents are rising in that area.      

How you justified giving 60% of the true value of any property can be snake's head rising later on, financing it lengthens that issue of concern.

They also only adjust values every few years, so when the market is rising or falling, the assessor values often lag, sometimes by years.

That means only one thing: prices have to rise.

SFRs are rising in value and there are good opportunities to pick up discounted properties here. 

Thats assuming the market will rise and you can sell it for what you have into it during that time.  

Rents have never been this high and they are rising.