The Truth About Financial Independence for Canadians

Dave Knight is a full time Police Officer who outside the workplace has been able to grow a multi-million dollar rental income portfolio who has since written a book, audio book and created a course intended for first responders to expose to the many possibilities to invest in real estate. Full disclosure, Dave is a past client of ours, a friend and like all my friends I’m teaching him stock hacki...

Our guest this week is David Sun, who is a Princeton graduate, yes he’s American, an engineer who does engineering type stuffs for his day job and he has three serious side hustles, four if you count that he owns a single rental property… I guess that counts. Four side hustles. David is a general partner in an investment real estate syndicate, a structure required for multiple investors and large...

On to this week’s guest in Mat Piche, he’s a normal guy, third generation carpenter.  He used to have a job renovating houses, then he started his own business renovating investment properties for investors.  Investors ask Mat if he knew any great investment specialist realtors, he didn’t so he became it.  Mat started sharing on YouTube back when fire was invented in 2012 and the rest is history. ...

Pascale is a mom and wife living in Ottawa, Ontario. As a young mom and school teacher, the pandemic hit her pretty hard with the decision to keep teaching in a changing environment and sending her young son back to daycare. My kids were forever sick while in daycare and preschool pre covid. I can only empathize with parents in this environment. Pascale decided to pivot this past summer to work on...

I first met Joe Costanza 20 months ago when he was a starry eyed 24 year old who had been hustling since a teenager, working several jobs, living at home to save up down payments for real estate.  An architect by trade and having tried several side hustles less than successfully, Joe settled on real estate without much support from his parents. Fast forward to today, Joe owns three properties, two...

On to this week’s guest, an award winning investor, Kris Lewis Kris is a dad, husband, multiple business owner who is really into spreadsheets, while grinding through to earn his ‘luck’. His current priorities include reverse engineering a life he thought was impossible only a few years earlier.  His goal from an investment perspective, which massively goes against his personality, is to make his...

Andy is a former Home Inspector, he’s a registered House and Small Buildings designer, real estate investor, developer. Andy has a degree in Architectural Science and he’s best known as the leading authority on accessory dwelling units design. In plain english that’s legal basement apartments or garden suites or the million other names for a self contained apartment. Why you need to know about acc...

Hello my fellow wealth hackers!! Who says you can’t mix business with pleasure?? This past Friday, I hosted Canada’s youngest retiree to come into the iWIN Hub (my office) to record a podcast, show him Stock Hacking, and shot virtual zombies in virtual reality. This episode was inspired by Mike going on a rant on his Instagram account about his frustration with his real estate: tenant related prob...

This week’s guest is a returning interviewee in Joel Arndt, when he was on last year, he out of the blue challenged me in my ability to make an investor successful so I had him ask me his questions on the podcast.  Some time has since passed and I thought it a good time to check in with Joel on his progress. Full disclosure, Joel now works with Cherry and I in our businesses and like all employees...

On to this week’s show, we have Seth Ferguson, a real estate TV Show Host, Podcast Host, author, soon to be second time author, apartment building investor and Stock Hacker. I first met Seth a year ago when he invited me to his podcast, it’s one of my favourite interviews. Not only is Seth a great producer and great dresser, he came prepared like none other for our interview. Here’s the link in ca...

This week’s guest is the lovely Kayla Andrade, founder of the Ontario Landlords Watch, a grassroot advocacy group for good landlords and good tenants.  If the environment is good for landlords that only benefits good tenants.  Kayla also has her own investment properties in Cambridge, Ontario, her own property management business Boardwalk Property Management. She's the mother of four and she’s ou...

This week’s guest has some crazy awesome advice on how to use technology in his sizeable real estate portfolio to save himself time, money, grief, and it even got rid of a drug dealing tenant who assaulted another tenant out of his property.  Some of Christians’ technology even makes him money.  Needless to say, this is an excellent interview.   This is a long episode as Christian was generous wit...

This week’s guests are none other than Leslie and Jamie Collard of Collard Properties and this is their 2nd interview on the Truth About Real Estate Investing.  The Collards did start with smaller residential investments and are now focused on apartment buildings and developing vacation properties internationally. Leslie and Jamie are quite open and sharing about how they find deals as well so mak...

On to this week’s guest, Lynne Tham. She was nervous to come on the show which is not uncommon. Public speaking by some surveys ranks higher on the lists of fears above death it self…. Lynne’s kids including my friend Simon told her to just do it and she did! I’ll post Lynne’s full bio on our website, www.truthabout realestateinvesting.ca . It’s a wonderful Canadian success story of a teenager imm...

Speaking of cash flow we have Ryan Carr of RW Carr Investments as this week’s guest talking about highest and best use and being creative in real estate.  How he groups his real estate investments into buy, renovate and hold, short term renos/developments and flips, and longer term projects including a waterfront 14 unit multifamily he renovated that went hundreds of thousands of dollars over budg...

Meet Michael Bugg, he’s young father, husband and just recently a full time real estate investor out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.  He began buying properties in 2010, specifically new construction and his investing has evolved into small apartment buildings. In July 2018, Michael hung up the stethoscope and quit his job as a veterinarian. On this episode, Michael shares his journey to now owning a...

On to this week's guest, Monica Lee who is like family, she is Cherry’s BFF, godmother to our most prized assets, our son and daughter.  Monica and husband Rich are both second generation Canadians, their parents immigrated to Canada from Korea with not much in search for a brighter future for their kids.  Rich and Monica both became lawyers who eventually quit law and six figure salaries to be fu...

In planning on a future without his wife Kaitlin and mother to one year old son Kingston, Ken Beckendam made the decision to quit his job and double down on his efforts to build his real estate investing business. At the time, half his income was coming from Ken’s investment properties plus the need to build towards the flexibility of schedule being an entrepreneur as Ken is now a single father an...

Cody is a first generation immigrant who came to Canada while still high school age, went to university, got a white collar job but apparently it was good enough as he quit this past January. I learnt of this before we started recording but I assumed he got a new job. What 29 year old doesn’t have a job? This one I guess. Cody is a YouTube influencer, a real estate investor in houses with legal ba...

We have my friend Ron Esteban on, he considers himself an average investor and not a big shot but he’s got a couple properties but what is super cool is he’s teaching students how to invest in both real estate and stock options. That’s right, Ron is a teacher with one of those big fat teacher pensions we’re all jealous about but he received some great advice to invest in real estate from an unlike...

Speaking of Cherry, she is this weeks guest here to share about the latest in Government subsidies, why she got into Stock Hacking when I was already deep into trading, our BHAG, big hairy audacious goal and so much more!

Buying high in demand assets with growing demand makes a lot of sense in hindsight. The business case for Canada to grow the economy via immigration makes a lot of sense financially to attract investment and talent. Unfortunately, many investors heard the same advice I did and instead of investing in Toronto, they invested in Edmonton and Calgary Alberta.  Again, hindsight being 20/20, that was no...

“Deadbeat. Loser. Failure .Criminal. Imagine growing up in a family where those words were meant to be your future. Without loved ones supporting you, would you, too, believe “You’ll never amount to anything?” All around you, right now, there are kids who dream to be great but live without the support or circumstances to do so. Whether you were raised with encouraging parents or you bootstrapped y...

SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR OBSESSED WITH EMPOWERING ENTREPRENEURS AROUND THEIR BUSINESS FINANCES.  Her track record speaks volumes: she has built a highly profitable 7 figure company, been on Dragon's Den (the Canadian version of Shark's Tank), done a successful crowdsourcing campaign and sold two businesses in the e-commerce space.  She now works with a fellow entrepreneur, her husband on FFV Capital an...

We have Victoria Masucci  Very happily married mother of two Self employed for over 20 years and former business owner Voted Insurance Business Canada’s top 10 Women of Distinction Huge life change resulting from the diagnosis of a life threatening illness of a child Became a real estate investor at 53 years of age and a stock hacker at 56 years of age to ensure financial freedom (better late than...