The below article relates to US market but content is interesting as well as author’s approach to resolving problem: which investment path to choose?

Many of you are probably just like me when I first started out in real estate. Attending meetings with recent graduates of the “how to get rich” weekend seminars. Working with real estate agents that are not investor savvy. Endlessly driving by and walking properties that might offer the best deal.

Most of the investors who attended the meetings were newbies who were purchasing single family homes and renting them out. I wondered whether this was a better strategy than buying multi-unit buildings.

I sat down one day and …