Real Estate

This post is part of a five-part series about tenants leaving a condo and finding and screening the new tenants: How to screen tenants Screening Tenants – Advertising and Showings Screening Tenants – Filling Out Applications Screening Tenants – Credit Check Screening Tenants – Lease Agreement And Repairs Repairs Alexandra and Rachelle had more good [...]

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This post is part of a five-part series about tenants leaving a condo and finding and screening the new tenants: How to screen tenants Screening Tenants – Advertising and Showings Screening Tenants – Filling Out Applications Screening Tenants – Credit Check Screening Tenants – Lease Agreement And Repairs Credit Check Check out Rachelle‘s excellent post [...]

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This post is part of a five-part series about tenants leaving a condo and finding and screening the new tenants: How to screen tenants Screening Tenants – Advertising and Showings Screening Tenants – Filling Out Applications Screening Tenants – Credit Check Screening Tenants – Lease Agreement And Repairs Application After showing the apartment to potential [...]

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Warning – this post is not suitable for family viewing! I originally rejected this post and then decided to run it – then I rejected it again and finally decided again to publish it.  It’s not the type of post I really want to publish, but it does contain a good lesson for prospective landlords.  [...]

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This post is part of a five-part series about tenants leaving a condo and finding and screening the new tenants: How to screen tenants Screening Tenants – Advertising and Showings Screening Tenants – Filling Out Applications Screening Tenants – Credit Check Screening Tenants – Lease Agreement And Repairs Advertising I’ve touched on this in previous [...]

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This post is part of a five-part series about tenants leaving a condo and finding and screening the new tenants: How to screen tenants Screening Tenants – Advertising and Showings Screening Tenants – Filling Out Applications Screening Tenants – Credit Check Screening Tenants – Lease Agreement And Repairs I recently had my tenants give me [...]

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Most “tenant from hell” stories involve bad people who don’t pay their rent.  This one is a bit different… This article was written by Rachelle: a real estate guru who works as a property manager and helps investors find rental properties in Toronto and surrounding areas.  She has recently started a very interesting blog called [...]

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This article was written by Rachelle: a real estate guru who works as a property manager and helps investors find rental properties in Toronto and surrounding areas.  She has recently started a very interesting blog called Landlord Rescue.  You can subscribe to the RSS feed here. Read Rachelle’s last story – The Stripper With Dirty [...]

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I always hear from people that their primary residence has been their “best investment”.  Usually this is accompanied by something along the lines of “it’s worth *8* times what I paid for it!” and a satisfied smirk.  As with many things, I suspect that people with this view are selectively interpreting the data to support [...]

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This article was written by Rachelle: a real estate guru who works as a property manager and helps investors find rental properties in Toronto and surrounding areas.  She has recently started a very interesting blog called Landlord Rescue.  You can subscribe to the RSS feed here. I asked Rachelle to write a “tenant from hell” [...]

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In a recent real estate post, frequent commenter Ryan Martin made a suggestion, in reaction to a statement at the end of my post: Mr. Cheap:  ”I’d certainly be willing to sell if the right opportunity presented itself, but I’m not in any rush either” Ryan Martin:  ”Mr. Cheap, judging by your last paragraph, it [...]

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When I did my condo purchase series I promised to provide an update after I did my tax return and never got around to it.  Better late than never, I’ve completed my 2009 taxes and can provide a summary. The way most investors (incorrectly) calculate their return is to take the rental income and subtract [...]

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I’m often amazed at fundamental misunderstandings landlords and tenants have about the laws governing tenancy in Ontario.  I’m not a lawyer, but to the best of my knowledge the information in this post is correct (and if any commentators correct me, I’ll make corrections in the post).  This post shouldn’t be taken as the complete [...]

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Some time ago Mike and his wife exchanged comments about having tenants pay off your mortgage.  My mother takes the same position as Mrs. Pillars does:  tenants paying off your mortgage is a good thing.  With respect to both frighteningly intelligent women, I’m suspicious this is a poor way to think about the investment. Say [...]

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This guest post was written by Investing Thesis: Credits Toward Financial Freedom – a personal finance and investing site from a Canadian perspective. If you like this article, I would encourage you to subscribe to our articles With the number of homes now in foreclosure many people, home buyers and investors alike are jumping to [...]

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Mr. Cheap & I have published a rather large number of posts where we point out that SOMETIMES real estate agents are not your friend, associate or even on your side and they definitely can’t ALWAYS be trusted. Heck, sometimes people DO use a friend as a real estate agent and SOME agents must be [...]

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