You can also lease out hunting rights to the land for additional income.

To optimize a BRRRR I specifically look to add additional livable sq ft.

I will use this as necessary, should I need additional liquidity.   

I'm employed full time as a sales engineer so real estate investing would be more a side project for me to earn additional income.As some of you may know, the Boston real estate market has been booming recently so the Boston metro area is probably outside my wheelhouse.

How much can we "pay ourselves" from the profit to avoid additional taxes?

Now still have 64K left which planning on using to secure 2 to 3 additional properties. 

Additional business docs wouldn’t hurt if you’re worried... but you should be ok.

I'm not sure about the brain drain because it was published when Amazon was looking for an additional HQ that engineers are hired faster here than any other city. 

I have some property management opportunities underway to help generate some cash flow on a steady basis, plan to act as an agent for some additional cash flow, and also have an interest in flipping homes. 

"Pet rent" is a little more grey - the Residential Tenancies Act does appear to preclude such additional rent amounts, but the practice is widespread and, thus-far, the authorities appear to tolerate it.We only allow pets in select buildings: either ones where we have inherited pets and have yet to perform any substantial retrofit or where the building was renovated with pets in-mind.