Recently our home province of Manitoba dropped the rate of interest the charge on student loans to “prime”. This was sort of dismissed by a lot of students we talked to as irrelevant, but the truth is that it is a major favour for us young bloods (sorry, I’ve been...
While Justin and I are both pretty big fans of living in residence, and had a great time living there not-so-long ago (ok… so it’s been a few years now), today’s students face a much different cost-benefit ratio than we did just a few years ago. When we started...
Student loans are a harsh mistress. They give with one hand (and what a glorious hand it is when you are in school and that student loan balance magically pops up in your account), but then brutally take with the other! Student loan debt is more or less the hardest...
It must be great to be a landlord in most major Canadian cities these days. Other than the whole putting up with renters thing I mean. Your properties’ value have skyrocketed the last couple of decades, and rental vacancy rates are so low that you have a tremendous...
To most parents, buying a house for their 18-20 year old son or daughter to manage as a rental property as they go through school seems like a somewhat crazy proposal. After all, most young adults aren’t exactly known for being responsible and organized – two key...