My focus is does Stittsville a good place to invest rental properties? First thing you have to consider is what is your potential clients. Kanata tech area (most of them) are in March area, if your target tenants are single/junior tech employee, then your properties are better in the walking distance to tech area or on the bus route since many of your target tenants do not have car. Again, you can still invest in Stittsville, then the demand may not be high.canabiz wrote: ↑Richard, I have to disagree with this statement. Stittsville is right besides Kanata and depending where you are in Stittsville and where you work in Kanata, it can be 5-10 minutes door-to-door. If that is not a GREAT commute trip, I don't know what is!
As an example (and you guys are more than welcome to validate yourself), my buddy lives on Cherokee Way in Stittsville and it takes him 10-13 minutes to get to work in Bells Corners, which is even further than Kanata, on any given day.
Is Stittsville far from Kanata? I think it is all relative. Ottawa is a pretty small city, it only take me 30mins from Barrhaven to Rideau center during weekend. But if you were the tenant, if you want to rent a condo/townhouse, are you going to rent it in Kanata or Stittsville? Unless your rental price is much lower, if not, the demand is just not high enough.