The Truth About Financial Independence for Canadians

Onto this week’s show! I’m getting a lot of emails and seeing it all over the investor Facebook groups folks are experiencing basement leaks so I’ve invited my secret contractor, friend and client Manny Cabral on the show.  Just to warn you, he’s ultra busy and selective of who he works with. He’s earned the right as he’s so busy with his own portfolio and existing referral business. Anyways, Mann...

On to this week’s guest!!   Sadly the truth is there are few people I like in the real estate industry and even fewer in the real estate investment industry.  John Bedomme is not only of the good ones, he’s one of the great ones.   John is a licensed real estate professionals, he listens to what his clients want and get them exactly that.  The job is to guide investors as best as possible with the...

On to this week’s show!! In 1964 a comic strip called “Wizard of Id” was published In the first panel the diminutive tyrannical King character addressed his subjects from the balcony of his castle and emphasized the need for “peace and harmony”. In the second panel the King continued by stating “We must all live by The Golden Rule”. Traditionally, the golden rule is to do unto others as you would...

Do you remember your favourite experience doing charity work? I’ll always remember my favourite moment as a Basket Brigade Volunteer. It was Thanksgiving and jacket weather, the sun was out so it was warm enough that we didn’t need gloves. My brother Tony was driving his company car since it’s an SUV and well, we’re doing god’s work so someone else can pay for the mileage 😛 hahaha He pulled off t...

Every investors greatest fear is buying a lemon of a property. A money pit if you will. I made that mistakes way back when I started, we were offered what every investor wants, an off market deal!  We made an offer well below what the seller’s Realtor thought they could get and boom. We got ourselves a money pit.  The house had a log foundation, the driveway was sloped to direct water into the bas...

What can I say, as any of you regular listeners know I’m far from normal but you know what I’ve learnt about spending time around successful people?  We’re all sort of crazy. Anyways, Cherry had a glass of wine, a shot of tequila, loosened up and felt like asking me whatever she wanted. If you still trust me afterwards to help you build your wealth through real estate, I’ll be at the next monthly...

I get this question a lot from recent graduates and folks switching careers. “I want to be an investors, should I become a Realtor?” I get it so often, I invited a young gentleman named Tim to ask me his questions and record it so I may share this for anyone in the same boat as Tim. For those wanted to get a real estate license to get access to the data available to Realtors, over 50% of agents do...

This week’s guest is excellent as always, he’s a coach, a real estate business owner with both property management, home construction businesses with 18 staff, and he’s transacted on over 200+ properties since 2003.  His name is Jared Hope of Tilt Property Group and he’s seen it all, from boom, to bust and 18.5% vacancy rates in the Alberta real estate market. Jared even shares the moment where he...

On to this week’s guest who is NOT a real estate investor but a remarkable human being nonetheless. Not all lessons are learnt in the world of investing and my conversation with Dan Thiessen, owner of RAdix Performance Centre in Oakville, Ontario, my Crossfit gym has parallels to the business/investing world. You want to be elite? The path is quite similar in athletics when compared to investing a...

Before our interview, I invited Steve to lunch at a fabulous restaurant on King William St, they just so happen to be one of Steve’s tenants. I also invited along with Luke Wywrot who is building a 30 storey apartment building around the corner as Luke and Steve have never met before.  Luke will be by the show when’s he’s less busy. We had an awesome lunch, I was the old guy among the three of us,...

I first met Anna after seeing a piece by CTV Barrie on how an area student landlord was switching gears and renting to seniors instead, link below.  Anna has been in the student rental business for 25 years and after the straw that broke the camel’s back, another abused rental property by the student tenants and thousands of repairs and clean up bills, she switched gears in renting to seniors. As...

Craig Ballantyne is the first influencer I followed back in early 2000’s before influencer was a term to describe some with a significant following. I knew Craig, he didn’t know me from his highly successful online fitness training program.  Craig’s clients would sign up online to learn how to exercise and diet to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle. Craig also taught his business and marke...

On to this week’s guest, Tom Sullivan, he is a Cancer survivor and when he learned of his Cancer, it served as a reminder how short and precious life is and went on a tear to acquire over 10 investment properties and earn him the Real Estate Investment Network’s award for Rookie of the Year in 2015. Tom is a smart guy holding his Masters in Business and Chartered Professional Accountant designatio...

Our keynote speakers Andy Tran, Charles Wah and Construction Manager Steve Ford are currently building two houses from the ground up on a lot they already own and had severed. Basically they got free so the returns are quite significant when you have next to zero land acquisition costs, especially the cash flow once the basements are legally suited.  Andy Tran knows a thing or two about that too....

Hello investors!! What a great time it is to be alive!! One of the secrets of happiness is the practice gratitude and I do this a couple times a week in my journal.  One of the secrets of motivation is to have a purpose beyond just you. I bring this up today because I received a rather nasty email from someone I know.  He challenged the purpose of why I post what I do, saying it’s for self affirma...

The DOW plunged 800 points yesterday so I asked Invest Like Mike 's Mike Iuliano what's going on in the markets, how he's investing (since he consistently beats the markets) and how it relates to real estate. I hope you enjoy! If you do, please like and share so I know you want to hear more of these interviews with Mike! To follow Mike, his group on Facebook is here: https://www.facebook.com/group...

I’m back from vacation!! Yes I know, I was back like two weeks ago from Hong Kong, China but this time I’m back from our cruise trip we had booked before our Hong Kong trip!! We took a Norwegian Bliss cruise out of Miami with stops in St. Thomas USVI, Tortola BVI (my personal favourite for the lovely views of rainforest and coast line, and one of the nicest beaches I’ve been too), and Bahamas. We...

While on vacation, I didn’t get much work done, just a little bit of emails and communicating with my team over instant messaging. I’m on vacation with my kids so no hard core work was getting done but I did do some light thinking. Such as how so many people are working for the weekend.  My family and I were in Hong Kong for my brother in law’s wedding so there was sufficient notice to all we were...

I’m back!! My family and I landed back in Canada 12 hours ago after a two week vacation in Hong Kong to witness the marriage of my brother in law Vick to his lovely bride Kitty.  Hong Kong in the real estate world is known as the least affordable real estate in the world and as a real estate nerd, it was fascinating to me to be able to witness it first hand. I know Hong Kong is not Canada but as a...

Driving down country roads near Hamilton Mountain, top down, in a 600 horsepower, v10, 5.something litre engine in a Lamborghini Huracan Spyder.  They cost around $350,000 to own but I’m no investor of cars therefore we rented :P The experience was amazing, the handling, braking and acceleration is unreal.  The experience was made better by sharing it with my fellow real estate entrepreneurs and m...

Never stop learning, you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with so I choose to be with these top real estate entrepreneurs who are all on track to do big things. #mastermind I shared with them my big ideas and they encouraged me to keep going. I’ll of course need their help and I’ll be there for them when they need mine. So many big things coming in 2019 and I can’t wait t...

Every morning the first content I consume is business or self development books. I’m loving the app Blinkist right now (thank you @tashamonaghan71 for the recommedation). Super cheap and summarizes much of the greatest books in history. The screen capture is Eat That Frog by one of my favourites @thebriantracy . Pretty much the perfect book to start the day. I just downloaded “How to Win Friends a...

Ben is among the best natural sales people I’ve met. Sales may sound like a yucky skill or profession but to steal a joke from the legend Brian Tracy, the oldest profession is not what you think it is but rather it is a form of Sales :) Ben will share his lessons from starting out to where he is today.  Ben started out as a new agent like anyone else but he earned $400,000 in commissions in his fi...

Thanksgiving Hamilton Basket Brigade Edition Complete!! 40 underprivileged families have a lot more warm clothing, winter boots, toys, games, food. As the President I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who made this happen.  Our board of governors, our donors and volunteers. The Hamilton elementary public and catholic school boards for your support.  They are the ones who identi...

You as the CEO of your life and business.  If you were to take a third person view, say you’re the chairman and have a look at the CEO you have employed to run your life and business.  Would you want them to have high energy and eat a healthy diet or would you want someone sluggish who considered french fries a vegetable? In masterminding with many entrepreneurs, health and weight are concerns for...