Ok here`s two views of commercial Real estate Reprieve for REITs "More equity and debt issues hit the market, and REITs on both sides of the border started to deleverage their bloated balance sheets. As a result, REIT units quickly raced off their market bottoms, rising 55% through Friday`s...

QUOTE (ontariolandlord @ Sep 10 2009, 01:09 AM) Congrats. Can I be a guest? Let`s chat brian(at)realexpertsinc.com ...LOL and Join REIN

QUOTE (Zee1960 @ Sep 10 2009, 07:17 AM) priceless comment! opportunity knocks! love it! Is this Maria Marcuzzi? HA HA HA...Love the powerful words

QUOTE (ontariolandlord @ Sep 9 2009, 10:10 PM) What do you think a petition from REIN will do? The `other side` is ideological and deeply entrenched and very well funded by our tax dollars. It was leaked that tenants groups even have people hired only to `monitor` landlord sites all day. The...

QUOTE (bizaro86 @ Sep 8 2009, 04:07 PM) It seems to me that if someone is looking for material things to ease the pain of dealing with real estate, the easiest course of action might be to quit dealing with real estate and do something else. Ultimately there are many ways to acquire money, and...

QUOTE (housingrental @ Sep 9 2009, 07:32 PM) Brian - I appreciate your enthusiasim but take issue with "The people that keep getting these tenants are not professional property investors." This is not true. Big and small investors and property managers will deal with this eventually - the best...

QUOTE (koop @ Sep 9 2009, 03:19 PM) Is there any reason that that has to happen to any landlord? Isn`t it all about doing your diligence on the tenants? Having a system that doesn`t draw these kind of tenants? Guys this is getting a bit out of control. There are two things we can do that could...

QUOTE (skiba @ Sep 8 2009, 10:12 PM) I`m looking to buy my first investment property in Ontario...I currently own a home, does anyone have a suggestion on the best way to go about this with using minimal capital? Are you in the GTA? Can you qualify for a mortgage at most of $300k? I know...

So free markets are all about investing resources for a gain without government intervention. For our Ontario Landlording debate I started thinking more about how government intervention introduces unintended consequences...and how these consequences harms the people that the government tries to...

QUOTE (dornay @ Sep 7 2009, 05:27 PM) Reading Don Campbell`s remarkable book (2.0). In Chapter 3 he discusses vision boards wherein one posts pictures of one`s desires. Visual images are very powerful and motivating. Working for a "thing" is also motivating. My question. Over the years I...

QUOTE (housingrental @ Sep 7 2009, 04:15 PM) Yup Very sad and true Free legal support for landlords as to tenants would help...won't happen but would be nice I blogged on this for Chris Davies and we had a pretty good discussion (here and here) I even had this ominous threat in the...

QUOTE (TodorYordanov @ Sep 7 2009, 05:12 PM) Brian, you created this amazing opportunitie for yourself. Congratulations. Take it all the way. Thanks again guys. As Don say`s time to peel away the onion to get to the facts. We`re planning to get down and dirty on condos for the first...

QUOTE (DavidB @ Sep 4 2009, 11:02 AM) Cool clip! You`re a natural. I`m pretty stoked. Thanks guys.

QUOTE (invst4profit @ Sep 4 2009, 10:53 AM) Tenants have legal possession of there rental unit up to midnight on the last day of the month. Preparation for a new tenant often means a month without rental income depending on how much damage the previous tenant did to the property. If a tenant...

Hi folks I remember a few months ago at a REIN event Don and 3 other REIN members were having a conversation and Don said something that hit me: I`m a big geek and love researching and reading...and said to myself: I`m a GEEK TOO. So I started blogging and posting research on facebook. After...

QUOTE (ottawarentals @ Sep 2 2009, 10:03 AM) Hi all, new to the forums and fairly new to real estate. One of my buildings has a small back yard and yesterday when I arrived to inspect a bee-hive nest growing I noticed that one of the tenants in the building has built a storage unit. This was...

QUOTE (tahani @ Sep 1 2009, 06:16 PM) Hi Brian. i am not sure where i saw a video and read an article that Don and Russ had here for us members. what they say is that the prices are still yet to come down in the USA. must see video before you buy now. tahani [email protected] I`m not...

QUOTE (Invest13 @ Aug 21 2009, 10:09 AM) Thank you for this very throughout information, I`m new to real estate investing and this is very helpful. Thanks again. my parents live in florida and I bought a duplex. getting great cashflow...all going to my mom. Market was crazy, worse than Edmonton...

QUOTE (phardy34 @ Aug 12 2009, 01:33 PM) I am a fairly new landlord. I have tenants that moved into a unit in February. They have been late paying their rent every single month since May. There have been a variety of excuses (bank fraud, vet bills, EI cheque not arriving, blah blah blah . . ...

We have heard in the past that infrastructure improvements (i.e. adding rail and highways) increase real estate values...it`s not always a golden rule. In some cases, removing trains and highways can spur a real estate renaissance in a neighborhood because removing them eliminates a barrier or a...