Should You Invest In Rental Property by real estate expert Kathy Mendham-Meathrel

While considering whether to invest in any real estate in London Ontario. it was suggested to me to make sure that I set some goals before I actually did any investing. So, I sat down to work on my goals. One of my first goals was to decide to invest in property for the sole purpose of having some rental property. In our discussion today, we will look at this to see whether this is a feasible goal.

As I did not have very much money to be putting down on any property in London Ontario, I decided that I definitely would be getting a mortgage. Now there are a lot of different things that you can invest in. If you have a goal of getting rental property in London Ontario, then most likely you will have to get a mortgage. So since I was going to have to get a mortgage, I had to make sure that the monthly payment was something that I could afford.

This is one type of investment that you have to lay money out on a monthly basis. Now I know if you are like I was, I thought that it would be so neat, because I figured that if I got a low enough payment, then my rent would pay for the monthly payment and then I might have a little left over to consider as income. Well, I really wasn’t thinking very logically. What I failed to take into account was that if that was going to work, then I had to make sure someone was in the property in London Ontario all of the time and that they were also always making their payment right on time.

I also really didn’t think about repairs. I was responsible for the upkeep of the house in London Ontario. So, if the furnace went out or the hot water tank started leaking, or the roof needed fixing, that was money coming out of my pocket. So one of my biggest recommendations to those that are considering investing in rental property in London Ontario is to make sure that they set money aside of maintenance and repairs as well as for those months that they don’t have a tenant in the house.

Something to keep in mind is that you want to set a goal of keeping someone renting all the time. So when you are looking for rental property, the location of the rental property in London Ontario is very important. If you select property near a college or university or near industrial areas, you have a good chance of keeping tenants in your property.

There is a lot of free information available to you about buying, selling or investing in London Ontario real estate. For complete information about the London Ontario real estate market including current homes for sale, property values and more please visit the most complete website online dedicated to everything London Ontario real estate at www.kathymm.ca. Please feel free to contact me with any of your real estate or mortgage related questions and I would be more than glad to answer your questions. Call me on my cell at (519) 854-1974 or email me.

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Kathy Mendham-Meathrel
Sales Representative
Realty Executives Elite Ltd. Brokerage
London Ontario Real Estate Agents
7-515 Wellington Road South
London Ontario
N6C 4R3
(519) 649-6900

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Kathy Mendham-meathrel
Realty Executives Elite Ltd Brokerage
London, ON

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