Try this website its american but some princples stay the same, http://www.dividendmantra.com/
I quite like Dividend Mantra, and think Jason is a great guy and excellent writer, but his investments have done worse than the S&P 500 over time, so he would actually be wealthier now without putting in all that effort... The same holds true for Donald Trump. Apparently if he invested his inheritance in the S&P500 and sat home watching Jerry Springer he'd be twice as wealthy as he is now! But yeah, great blog, and a great way of thinking about building wealth.
As far as I understand only ETFs are allowed in TFSAs. So what you can do is buy into the PTXTEN or the PTXSPY. Both those ETFs are only invested in REITs but their dividend yields are not much to write home about.
Don't buy PTXSPY, it's got a TER of 0.58% when you can get the Stanlib SA property index which does exactly the same thing and has a TER of 0.36%. The difference in fees gets taken off the dividend payout, so the stanlib sapy will pay you more.
Problems like this really interest me Ron. I've seen too many people I know get retrenched and end up literally having to beg at their families door for a place to sleep and some food to eat. So for the last 10 years or so, I've often played a game of what if I lost my job now.
My retiring at 40 blog post is pretty much the way I would handle it if I was in your situation:
http://investorchallenge.co.za/can-you-retire-by-40/I would try and do is reduce costs though. Housing is probably sucking up the most of your cash, would you consider taking a housemate, or renting a room somewhere? Depending on the circumstances, I'd even live on a cheap boat, or even in a van, but I'm extreme that way.
If I wasn't sure my money would last forever I'd also pick up an easy, fun job. I used to be a barman when I was a student, and even then I could make R5k a month, and that was 15 years+ ago.