Canadian Real Estate Investors Association

A Canadian community of landlords and real estate investors, founded in 2017 by Maria Rekrut.

Nobody teaches you how to be a landlord in this country.

You buy the property, you learn the tenant laws on the way in, and the first bad tenancy costs you more than any course would have. That is how most Canadian investors learn, and it is a slow and expensive way to do it.

The Canadian Real Estate Investors Association exists so that it is not the only way.

We are a community of landlords and investors from across Canada, from people buying their first income property to people who have been doing this for decades, and we share what we know so the person behind us does not have to repeat our mistakes.

Join the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/canadianrealestateinvestorsassociation

More than 18,000 members. Free to join.

WHO IT IS FOR

Small landlords. Meaning people who own a handful of units, not institutions.

First-time buyers who are trying to work out whether a property actually makes money.

Experienced investors who have been through the Landlord and Tenant Board and want to compare notes with people who have too.

Anyone who has ever had a tenant stop paying and realize they did not know what to do next.

WHAT YOU GET

A real community, not a sales page. Questions get answered by people who have already dealt with the problem you are describing.

Practical discussion of tenant screening, the Residential Tenancies Act, the LTB, rent controls, evictions, financing, and the paperwork that protects you when something goes wrong.

The chance to hear how other Canadian landlords are handling the market as it is right now, not as it was five years ago.

WHAT IT COSTS

Nothing. Joining the group is free. There is no membership fee.

We do run paid training separately, including Landlord Boot Camp, for anyone who wants structured teaching. You will hear about it in the group, and you are never obliged to buy anything to stay a member.

FROM THE FOUNDER

I started renting property in Niagara in 1982, back when I had no capital and nobody to call for advice. I bought my first home here in 1988 with three mortgages stacked on top of each other, an 11% first, a 13% second, and a private third, because that was the only way I could get in.

I made almost every mistake a landlord can make in the years since, and the ones that cost me the most were never about the property. They were about the process. Not checking something properly. Taking a tenant in a hurry. Trusting a referral instead of a reference.

I founded this association in 2017 because I was tired of watching good people lose money on lessons that somebody else had already paid for. If you are one of those people right now, you are in the right place.

Maria Rekrut
Founder and President, Canadian Real Estate Investors Association

Join 18,000 Canadian landlords and investors.

Join the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/canadianrealestateinvestorsassociation

Free. Canadian. No sales pitch.