The Andrew Hines Real Estate Investing Podcast · Andrew M. Hines

Is This the Answer to Affordable Housing in Canada with Bridgette Clarke

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Bridgette says the townhouse needed about $4,000 in monthly income but now brings in $5,000.

Episode 281 starts with the rent math. Andrew frames Bridget's deal as a four-bedroom Whitby house that works better room by room than as one standard rental. The gap is hard to ignore. Whole-house rent sits around $2,800, while the bedroom model brings in about $5,000 before the operational headaches show up. Andrew keeps coming back to the numbers. The property still cash flows with a variable-rate mortgage, condo fees, and extra services like cleaning and landscaping. That is where the episode gets useful. The model sounds simple until it starts looking like an operating business, not a passive lease with better rent. Bridget's example shows why investors look at it. A house can bring in more revenue while giving tenants a lower-cost room option than renting a full place. Then the conversation takes a turn into U.S. investing. The barrier there is not some big secret. It is paperwork, structure, and people who know what they are doing. They talk through ITIN filings, IRS-listed accepting agents, Canadian CPAs who understand U.S. returns, and the cost of keeping the setup clean. Andrew is blunt about it. U.S. investing may be open to people willing to do the work, but it should be a focused strategy, not a one-property experiment. That warning gives the episode its spine. Bedroom rentals and cross-border deals both offer upside, but neither is free money. More upside means more execution, more paperwork, and less room to wing it. The ending stays loose, with Bridget sharing an email and Instagram handle after a conversation that wanders a bit but keeps returning to usable investor math.

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A room-by-room rent strategy that lifts a plain house into stronger monthly cash flow.

A four-bedroom Whitby house sits at the center of this piece. Rented as a single home, it might have brought in about $2,800 a month; rented room by room, it is now pulling in $5,000.

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