I use Roxane from Ssuite property managment: www.ssuite.ca and am very happy with her. Good luck. Yevgeni

Follow Adam`s advise. Look up a paralegal on www.wrama.com and get help. Unless you have all of your info and timing right - you will end up with these tenants staying longer than you wish and not paying rent... and destroying your property... How did you get these tenants? They sound like the...

An interesting article in Yahoo Finance about US house prices. While this is the US, I believe that the metric should apply to Canadian markets/prices as well. What do you think? To gauge house prices

QUOTE (gwasser @ Jan 23 2010, 09:44 PM) Do you care to share why you think oil will fall as low as $60? Just curious. ...because it still looks like bubble territory. http://www.wtrg.com/oil_graphs/oilprice1947.gif

Bump. Any new opinions on this topic? Yevgeni

If the city is Hamilton - be particularly careful of bachelors, and of the PROFORMA (I completely agree with Adam). However, if the bachelors are the only `affordable` option (for example on the West side of Vancouver) vs. 1bedrooms "in the same city" (ie East Vancouver) - then there is no...

... the above article

Banks (whether TD, RBC, Scotia, or any other) will ONLY `bend` when you are either wanting to move your `business` to them, or when you threaten to take your business away. If you have history with the bank, significant investments, good credit rating etc. you CAN negotiate what the increase on...

QUOTE (ThomasBeyer @ Jan 1 2010, 08:01 PM) not quite .. Canada has TWO HUGE HUGE advantages over Japan allowing higher home prices / home price growth: a) INmigration .. thus continued GDP growth and more housing / rental demand Canadian census is approaching 34M people. Annual rates of...

... Just because something is overvalued, or undervalued does not mean that it can`t become more significantly over/under valued I draw your attention to Figure 2 in that publication that looks at Historical Price to Rent ratios for various countries. If I am reading this correctly, Canada...

Since these are harmless predictions... Oil goes to 120 (sooner than Thomas expects) - this causes US (and World) economy to stall again with significant drops in the stock markets, possibly re-testing the March 2009 lows. In Real Estate - the spread between buyers and sellers expectations...

Landlord Cash Flow Analyzer Not free, but very good. Yevgeni

Have you considered another option... How about incorporating another company (call it HoldCo.) and then you can transfer money between your two companies tax free. You own the shares of both companies (or you and your wife) and you buy the properties inside your new HoldCo. This lets you use...

I agree - good point! However, just because it is cheap does not mean that it can`t get cheaper ...

Don`t forget that government can change the rules on us in `mid-flight` and that these changes can be either for the worse or for the better. For example, if the PC party does stand up to its election promise and bring in the US equivalent of the 1031 exchange, than this may become a moot point...