Guides for real estate professionals
Speak the language your investor clients underwrite in.
Practical guides on the metrics, valuation methods, risks and Ontario-specific rules that decide whether a client's deal works — written for the agent or broker presenting it.
Real Estate Investing
Deal Analysis
9 min read
How to Analyze a Rental Property
A practical, repeatable framework for analyzing a rental property: verify income, rebuild expenses, model financing, test the downside and set a maximum offer.
8 min read
How Much Should You Offer on an Investment Property?
How to set a maximum offer using target returns and lender constraints, and how to negotiate from a number rather than a feeling.
Financing
Rental Properties
7 min read
Rental Property ROI Explained
The four sources of rental property return, how to measure total ROI, and why IRR is a better comparison for multi-year holds.
7 min read
How to Analyze a Duplex
What makes duplex underwriting different: legal status, unit mix, shared systems, utility splits and the owner-occupied scenario.
Multifamily
Ontario Real Estate
9 min read
Real Estate Investing in Ontario
An orientation to Ontario investment property: market structure, rent rules, land transfer tax, financing and the questions to verify locally.
8 min read
How to Analyze an Ontario Rental Property
Ontario-specific rental underwriting: rent rules, municipal taxes, land transfer tax, utility arrangements and legal unit verification.
Real Estate Calculations
7 min read
What Is a Good Cap Rate?
Cap rate has no universal 'good' value. Learn what drives it, how to compare it against local sales, and when a high cap rate is actually a warning.
6 min read
How to Calculate Cash-on-Cash Return
The cash-on-cash return formula, a worked example, what to include in cash invested, and how leverage changes the result.
6 min read
How to Calculate NOI
Build net operating income line by line, know which costs belong in it, and see why a single missed expense can cost tens of thousands in value.