About the Author
Michael P. Currie
Michael P. Currie is a landlord, property manager, author, and owner of the company Landlord by Design. Based in Canada, Michael got his start in the early 2000s as an investor flipping houses, and by the end of 2009, he was using a buy and hold strategy with his investments.
As a member of the IPOANS (Investment Property Owners of Nova Scotia) organization, Michael further gained extensive experience with property managers, tenants, tradespeople, contractors, and more. After discovering a need for property management education, Michael started the Landlord by
Design blog in 2015 to offer guidance and share his expertise. While it began as part-therapy, part-record keeping, Michael soon realized that many readers wanted to learn how to participate in real estate investing in addition to property management.
Michael published his first book, Landlord by Design: Complete Guide to Residential Property Management, in 2016. This effort was the result of trial and error while working with various investment strategies from tax sales and student properties to zero-money-down investing.
Michael lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, with his wife, Shelly, and their two children. When he isn’t writing about real estate, Michael can be found spending time with his family, volunteering with his favourite nonprofit organizations, or enjoying the social clubs of Halifax.
Landlord by Design Blog
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Rent Control Is Here To Stay Until December 31, 2023
Well after a lot of rumors, speculation, protests and debate temporary rent control has been extended in Nova Scotia. What does that mean for landlords? Residential rent increases will be limited to 2 per cent per year and will be in effect until December 31, 2023...
Process To Serve Tenants Documents Nova Scotia
I get asked a lot about serving documents to tenants. A lot of times it can be hard to track down somebody who is avoiding you. The bigger challenge is when you hook a "professional tenant", they use the rules in their favor to drag out a process such as eviction. I...
The Secret To Quick Evictions
The secret to quick evictions. The other night I took a call that has been happening all too often lately. It was not a landlord, but a random tenant. Her voice was crackling, emotions were high, she felt powerless to what was happening. She put her boyfriend on the...