Hi Jeff;
Multi-family is also my prime interest, as well. I hope that someday REIN will assemble a good MF package. HEY!!! Do any of you MF investors want to join me in putting one together?
In the meantime, there are several places for you to go for information or education. Here are a couple that I can think of off the top of my head:
If you are looking to learn how to manage ICI (Industrial, Commercial, and Investment), then REIC, and the CPM (Certified Property Manager) program is a good place to look. If analysis is your goal, then CCIM is the better place to go.
CCIM offers several free online investment spreadsheets, one of which I used until a couple years ago.
You can find them here.
Both organizations offer online courses.
In addition, IREM (Institute of Real Esate Management) sells numerous real estate books.
Those can be found here. The IREM courses are offered by the REIC in Canada. But, for some reason, we cannot buy books and publications online through REIC.
NB: If you use the CCIM spreadsheets, be aware that the mortgage calculations use the American mortgage system, which is slightly different than ours. There is a button to use Canadian calculations, but for some reason I cannot get that to work. I keep getting a message about my "macro setting", and do not know how to change that.
Not knowing where you live, Vancouver, and I believe Edmonton, have an annual Buildex Conference. At least in Van, there are numerous seminars on various aspects of real estate. Check to see if there is a Buildex Conference near you.
There are several excellent ICI investment analyzing programs on the market. A link to one is on the CCIM page. But, the one I use and really like is
Investit Pro. It is produced here in Vancouver, and has numerous templates that are already set up for just about any kind of real estate investing you are doing... condo conversion, apartment ownership, mini-storage, industrial development, mobile home parks, and even shopping centres, etc. It will take too long to explain why I like this program. But, you can get a trial version of it on the website.
I hope this will be of some use to you.