
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.
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Jun 19, 2026
Multifamily Real Estate Investing in 2026: Value-Add Deals, Rent Control & Long-Term Wealth
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Mike HambrightHOST
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.

Dakota BarkerGUEST
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.

Dakota BarkerGUEST
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.

Dakota BarkerGUEST
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.

Dakota BarkerGUEST
Because a lot of these people, if they're paying $1,000 a month in rent, market is $2,000.
Dakota Barker: Physician Assistant to Entrepreneur and Real Estate Investor
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Raymond LeeHOST
And so I just wonder, what was it specifically that drove you to want to move into another career direction?

Dakota BarkerGUEST
If you look back to when I left, you'll realize that it was right in the middle of COVID.

Dakota BarkerGUEST
So pre-COVID, we already have too few people doing the jobs that they should be doing.
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Raymond LeeHOST
But what have you learned about this transition and this new career that you're in today that you can share?
