Possibly yes, but liquidating property has more legwork than clicking "sell stocks" from an app. I have to study the whole set of pros and cons, all fees hidden or otherwise, before jumping into this, for example or if housing inflation rates drop to 4-5%, and I'm no longer meeting the expected value because I had to sell low, things like that.HoA fee or maintenance vary from strata to strata. Many Duplex do not have them but they get the strata insurance directly (I do this, mine is shared with my duplex partner). Needless to say, interest rates have peaked. If anything, they will go down a bit from here. That will make flipping even more attractive than renting. A 0.45 drop in interest rate in this case will be drop monthly by 100 dollars at 400K mortgage.
Agree on renovictions, but I'm on a purpose built rental, relatively new, just built in 2022. I'm actually the first tenant of my unit, and one of the very first tenants of the building, which why I have a relatively lower rental rate, because I'm an early bird. I don't worry about renovictions just yet, maybe after 5-10 years, but I doubt I'll last that long here anyway.Thing with renting is that, you may also get renovicted for higher rental. For vancouver this is not unheard of. Some of the more crafty ones --specially in surrey-- further use the pretense of giving condo to their "family members" who are just another punjabi family. And given RTB is so backlogged that it is not even funny, you will end up with more trouble than worth it.