'Taking Real Estate To The Next Level'

What's your tenant profile? Everyone has heard at least one horror story of "the tenant from hell," so much, in fact, that dealing with renters is the biggest fear potential investors face, writes industry expert Paul Kondakos. But that threat can be easily mitigated. Owning an investment property is tantamount ...

Are real estate investment properties overvalued in London or the rest of Canada? If you read any business page, wealth guru, economist (they go to the same school that a weather forecaster did), or watch any financial programming, that’s all we hear. Just today a large Canadian Bank stated that residential income properties prices are 20% ...

Daily our associates view residential investment properties in South West Ontario and have been able to sift out the deadwood and troublesome properties to a few winners. There are over 70+ residential income properties active on the market at this writing.Before we allow our clients to be serious about an investment, we analyse, research & ...

Top 5 tenant gripes about condo landlordsWhile the regulatory powers that be sometimes fail investors, landlords are no saints either. According to Geordie Dent, executive director of the Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations (FMTA), condos are unique in terms of residential tenancy law and landlords often fail tenants when condo-specific ...

While a slowdown in home sales and dip in property prices continue to make headlines, according to one of the country’s biggest banks, a slowing market isn’t all bad news."Cheaper home prices could bring winners as well as losers across the economy," said Avery Shenfeld, CIBC World Markets economist. So how can investors ...

Landlords don’t want to scare away tenants by raising the rent, but here’s a lesson in how and why to do it.   Income properties are in essence a business, and as such, you are constantly trying to increase income and decrease expenses. One of the easiest ways for landlords to do the former, at no cost and little effort, is to ...

  Late payments, bouncing cheques – these are just a couple of the warning signs seasoned landlords look for. But while evicting a troublesome tenant may seem the easy solution, doing so isn’t quite as simple.  Harry Fine, a paralegal specializing in landlord and tenant law, to give investors a list of the top four ...

                      An Approach to Hassle-Free Rental Income    If you own rental real estate, you probably have a few “war” stories to tell of tenants from you-know-where. If you don’t own rental real ...

How to invest in real estate?     This question has as many different answers as “how to build a better mousetrap.” If you look online or watch late night television you will find thousands of people pitching their “proven methods” of how to make millions of dollars in real estate. So who do you believe? How ...

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