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

Here is a (perhaps non-solvable) problem: How do you determine IDEAL rent levels? Before you start suggesting market research, surveys etc. I`ll ask you to skip this and take it `one step further`. Imagine two situations: you have an average property in an average town (for which CMHC...

Hi all, I wanted to share my experiences with my (previous) property manager - Sandra Thornton from SanThorn rental agency/Litehouse services. First a warning - don`t use her! I hired her based on a recomendation (before joining REIN and learning what questions to ask of the team members)...

Has anyone tried the idea of outsourcing some of the less pleasant aspects of real estate investing? I am trying to find out ways to improve my use of time and delegate as much as possible. I have a property manager(s), but there are other tasks that I do myself, that I may be able to have...

Hi, New to this forum (somewhat less new to investing in real-estate I have 12 doors currently). I have been looking at the Hamilton downtown core. There are a number of reasons to shy away from the area - other reasons to consider it seriously. I would love to hear opinions on both sides and...