Hey Folks,Listening to GRE I heard a lot about how bad traditional investments and retirement plans are.  I am trying to put together some concrete and quantifiable numbers that show this- but its not my area of exper...

Hi BP,I am 23 years old and new to real estate investing from Toronto, ON. I am looking to do my first deal in London, ON, but want to understand the potential costs of Insurance for rental properties, from what I und...

How do I come up with comparables if the house is the biggest one in the subdivision? The owner over built the property when he had an addition built and will definitely not get what he put into it, Im having a hard t...

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I'm ready to buy my first investment property I'm currently looking for SFH to rent I'm just having one issue is the financing. I have enough money for down payments and closi...

Hey everybody, I'm currently house hacking a duplex and $300 of my $1,800 mortgage payment is PMI. I could increase payments until I have 20% equity before putting money toward another property. Or I could keep making...

Hey friends,I've tried finding a statistic that has a cited source on "percentage of real estate investments that fail" and I'm coming up with a blank.I'm thinking it would be hard to capture this data from anything o...

I have a basement lock-off.  My wife and I live upstairs.  The blinds are broken and need to be replaced, upstairs and downstairs.  For our own, I greatly prefer cellular shades.  They look nice, easy to operate, easy...

Hello-Note: This is part of my learning about new things so I'll keep some homes on the shelf, so to speak, just to see what happens with them. Ie. Listed at, sold at, how long on market.Here goes....Looking in an are...

With all the focus I see on calculating investment returns, something I consistently see missing in the analysis is: RISK.There are two sides to consider when analyzing any investment: Risk and Return.As a community, ...

I've been aggressively trying to figure out how to purchase my first deal. I've been able to get in with agents and have been getting deals sent to me daily but I have zero clue when it comes to estimating rehab cost ...