You can invest in mortgages for higher income...but no upside.

QUOTE (margaretcowan @ May 24 2009, 01:47 PM) Someone, who doesn`t benefit from what type of investments I make, suggested I buy shares of high quality real estate companies instead of the actual real estate. He said leverage was built into the share prices of the real estate companies and I`d...

Hi Dave, My family and I started investing our RRSP`s into mortgages in the Vancouver area for about 17 years. Since the late 1990`s, I`ve grown to prefer to invest in mortgages through a managed, pooled structure (a MIC) than in any investing in any one specific mortgage, for...

QUOTE (llee @ Mar 26 2009, 07:58 PM) Does anyone have experienced dealing with private lending firm (with arm length mortgage) in general? It looks like they`re not charging a lot for admin fee (just like typical mutual fund MER). Thanks. There are a number of ways to invest in mortgages -...

QUOTE (caglah @ Mar 6 2009, 10:04 AM) This question may sound vague but I am asking so as to be sure. For an investment property can a spouse be on title without being on the Mortgage? What are the rules? Thanks. Conrad. Don`t take any legal advice from anybody that`s not a lawyer...but this...