You can buy FIVE million dollar properties ($200k down on each)+5% in LTV = ANOTHER MILLION DOLLAR PROPERTYHowever, Lenders love LOWER LTVs because the main tool to protect themselves if someone defaults on their loan (stops paying) is to foreclose on the property & take ownership.

Also though, I've reached out to John Bianchi (The AirBnB Data Guy and also the head of data for Techvestor) and I got his new analytics tool that he developed so that I can pull up actual STR data for any market. 

Is that a homegrown tool that you have worked on?

The benefit that this can create for you (with a couple downloads to excel) is an ongoing cash flow forecasting tool and a comparison of what you thought your cash flow should be to what it actually was.

Trulia is a pretty decent source for crime rates so you should use that tool also.

I love learning about more accounting tools. hehe Thanks tons!

I just don't see how another man's stuff is relevant to my success.Obviously there's money in real estate, but the money is a tool/bridge/means to having more control over my life.

Would you all suggest the calculators here to run numbers on deals, or any suggestions on other tools that might apply more specifically to canada? 

When I tell Californians that I can get them a house for $15,000 in Alabama, they think I'm talking about a tool shed.

Hello RE friends,

In an effort to move beyond theory (e.g. reading, speculating, postulating) and into practice there was a need to invest in a commodity.

Commerical paper doesn't seem as interesting because it's ...