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Dakota Barker

Dakota Barker

Canadian real estate investor and former pediatric physician assistant who left healthcare after COVID-era burnout to pursue multifamily investing in Ontario with Jeff Barker.

Jun 19, 2026

14:03
And then also, too, you might have to get a feel for, well, what's the demographic of our tenants? Are these folks who are planning on staying here long term or maybe they're more transient? Yeah.
14:14
It's important to understand who – because if you have a student rental, that's going to be very different than if you have a unit that is more tailored to families, right? A family with kids is less likely to move around because that's a lot more work.
14:29
So you really have to look at the demographics of your building.
14:33
And again, this is going back to our – Our strategy is, you know, you could go in and try cash for keys and try to turn like turn tenants over.
14:42
But that's not really something that we like to do because we don't want our value add to come from purely displacing people out of.
14:50
their homes.
14:51
Because a lot of these people, if they're paying $1,000 a month in rent, market is $2,000.
19:09
Well, so does the type of investment strategy that you can implement.
22:03
And so I just wonder, what was it specifically that drove you to want to move into another career direction?
22:14
There were a lot of things that happened at once.
22:18
If you look back to when I left, you'll realize that it was right in the middle of COVID.
22:23
So that was a big player in the reason for leaving.
22:30
The Canadian health system is already... we already have a lot of shortages.
22:39
So pre-COVID, we already have too few people doing the jobs that they should be doing.
22:47
We don't have enough staff to begin with.

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44:15
But what have you learned about this transition and this new career that you're in today that you can share?

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