Category Archives: First Rental Property

It Starts At The Bottom

The Kick Real Estate May Need Do you know where the turnaround in the housing market starts? It starts at the bottom. I’m not referring to the slums or the starter housing market, but with the rush for rental property … Continue reading

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Paint – Why It’s A Landlord’s Best Renovation Bet

Cost Effective Rental Renos With a Big Payback There’s something about a nice fresh coat of paint. It can help revitalize a property after just a few hours and yet, it’s something many landlords just don’t do often enough. The … Continue reading

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Financing Your Rental Property – Variable Rate Rocks

Cash flow is definitely king when it comes to owning a rental property, but what can you do to ensure you receive the maximum amount of cash flow out of your rental property? You can always start by looking at … Continue reading

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Financing Your Rental Properties

Rental Property Financing Tips With the recent announcement from the Bank of Canada that the prime rate isn’t changing and isn’t likely to change in the very near future, I have a nice little segue into today’s article about financing … Continue reading

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How Much Is The Rent?

Crucial Steps To Evaluate  Potential Rental Properties I still have a few more articles up my sleeve to help beginning investors and today’s topic is “How Much Is The Rent?” It’s funny, or is it annoying, how often you will … Continue reading

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Creating Multiple Streams of Rental Income Goodness

My Favourite Type of Rental Property In today’s article about investing in Real Estate, I finally get to talk about my favourite type of rental investment, investing in single family homes. So why is it my favourite? It’s all due … Continue reading

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The Best Type Of Rental Property To Invest In Is….

Investing In Rental Property Can you believe we are already on our fourth article in this series of Real Estate investment articles? This post will cover my thoughts on what I believe are the best type of rental properties to … Continue reading

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Choosing Great Investment Areas

Choose a Great Investment Area Not Necessarily a Great Area We are carrying on with our series of the basics of investing in Real Estate this week and in this article, we move on to finding great investment areas to … Continue reading

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Creating Your Real Estate Dream Team

Steps To Becoming a Great Real Estate Investor This is the continuation of a series of articles about being a Real Estate investor and this week we tackle your Real Estate Dream Team. The premise behind creating a dream team … Continue reading

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Becoming a Real Estate Investor

Getting Started With Rental Properties Have you ever thought about owning a rental property? Just a single property that you can use for cash flow, perhaps make some money from appreciation and maybe long term use it as part of … Continue reading

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