I think there is opportunity in Calgary, but it is hard to find a straight forward deal.

The most straight forward way is to get the cooperation of the borrower to give you authorization to talk to the bank.

Therefore, when you compare the time you take to save up the money needed for a down payment on a rental property, for example, you are incurring opportunity costs vs just putting it straight on your mortgage like I am.

lease-to-own sounds intriguing but Raleigh locals says a straight lease eviction is weeks versus lease-to-own can even be year or more, Im told stories of 18 months, there are completely dramatic differences in cost time lines, process.thus Im told lease-to-own is rarely done in NC...anything Im missing or different experience?

Somehow my attorney was able to get it straight.

That covers most bases including the tools needed for access to crawl spaces or utility areas.General areas that are important (structurally speaking) are:Roof lines - are they straight?

Well, you can’t 1031 into your primary residence straight up.  

We call this 'pay to play', but really you're just paying to take on risk you wouldn't have if you went straight turnkey, and to give up control you would have if you just DIY'd the whole thing.

All the above info is accurate with the exception of  not being able to purchase a bigger building on a FHA program, to show occupancy is pretty straight forward, you can move up or down based on the situation, an LOX needs to detail the move, it can be closer to school or work, better neighborhood, bigger square footage for the owner unit or lower square footage if lets say you are an empty nester, divorcing, separating, etc or it can be just a nicer building and other reasons I can't think of right now.

Its fairly straight forward as to why....