Forget cashflow (or rational appreciation), that city has long since passed sanity or anything relatively close to market fundamentals for you to want to touch real estate 'investments' with a 100-foot pole.If you can't tell, I could go on forever about the current status of the Canadian real estate market! 

As a beginner I think you should get your feet wet at least in beginning with a local investment to understand the fundamentals to investing.Investing out of state has it's challenges and can be cumbersome especially for a novice investor.That is just  my opinion, others may feel differently.best regards and good luck!!

I feel more comfortable reading and highlighting books than reading an entire book or e-books from a computer or pad.Here's what I need?

Therefore, this property would need to be reported on Schedule E as a rental property.Another tax trap to watch out for is AirBnB'ing your property.

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I saw a post that says I should have a Title Company do an O&E report which I plan on doing, but would like more suggestions as well.I appreciate any suggestions you can give me.Thanks,Martha.

I'm looking at it, and I THINK it'd work, but I can't help but feel that I'm missing something, or that there's something fundamentally flawed in my thought process that makes this unworkable.

All kinds of mixed signals but the REIT market is a proxy for the private market so let’s see what happens.With that said, you have to look at the fundamentals related to RE investing (i.e. job growth, affordability, unemployment, historical pricing, etc).

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