Real estate investor bets on Edmonton Rising interest rates, tighter mortgage rules and worries of another housing bubble make it a bad time to invest in real estate, right? Not so, says Don Campbell, president of the Real Estate Investment Network and bestselling author, who's just released his fourth book on property investment. "If you're buying a mutual fund or a stock, you have no control," Campbell said. "With real estate, you can buy it and add value. You can live in it, you can rent it out and most importantly, right now, for every one dollar you put into the market of your own you're going to be playing with four or five dollars because of the banks, and as long as you've purchased a positive-cash-flow property -- it takes care of itself. "Your mortgage slowly gets paid down. Rent puts income into your pocket and you're leveraged." He calls Edmonton an especially promising place to invest and puts his money where his mo...
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