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Selected guides

Understand your property
financing options.

Understand the numbers, choices and commitments before deciding what comes next.

Two modernist homes around a bright shared courtyard, an illustrative architectural sceneBuying rental properties

Guide

How does rental income affect your mortgage qualification?

Rent received and income used by a lender are different figures. Learn what enters the assessment.

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Illustrative modernist residential terrace

Refinancing & equity

How much could a refinance leave available?

See what repayments and costs could leave from a refinance, alongside the new debt.

Understand refinance proceeds ↗Illustrative low-rise apartment building and courtyard

Multifamily financing

What does MLI Select mean for an apartment building?

An introduction to the financing incentives, building commitments and project assessment.

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Watch. Calculate. Prepare.

Put the knowledge to work.

Follow a worked example, test your assumptions or prepare for a financing conversation.

Thumbnail of the Streetwise multifamily financing workshop recordingRecorded workshop · approx. 90 min

Video workshop

Work through an apartment building’s financing.

Follow the income, expenses and mortgage payments in Streetwise’s archived workshop.

Watch the workshop ↗Historical rates and assumptions are explained on the recording page.
Rental property cash flowExample output from the rental cash-flow calculator showing how rental income is allocatedIllustrative example · use your own numbers

Interactive calculator

What could the property leave each month?

Test rent, operating costs, mortgage payments and reserves. Compare your scenarios.

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STREETWISEYour property goals.
Your financing priorities.Goals Kit · Planning worksheet

Planning resource · PDF

Put your property goals into words.

Organize your priorities before discussing the financing. The Goals Kit helps you prepare.

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The collection

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Browse 58 guides, recordings, tools and resources. Narrow the collection by subject or format.

Conversations and tools

Learn from the discussions.
Put the ideas to work.

Watch investor conversations, revisit summit recordings or test your own property numbers.

Adapt & Thrive recording featuring Quentin D’SouzaArchived interviews
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2025 Summit recording featuring Jayden Haywood and Dalia Barsoum2025 recordings
2025 Property Investment Summit ↗
Illustrative output from the refinance calculatorInteractive tools · illustrative preview
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Dalia Barsoum’s Canadian Real Estate Investor Financing book

Dalia’s book · Bestselling for 7 years straight

Canadian Real Estate Investor Financing

7 Secrets to Getting All the Money You Want

Read about the book, meet the author or register your copy.

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Six architectural stages of the Real Estate Wealth Map™

The Real Estate Wealth Map™

Your next question may depend
on where you are today.

Explore the six stages of building wealth through real estate, with guidance, advice and dedicated services at every point along the journey.

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