The Truth About Financial Independence for Canadians

Onto this week’s guest, MCW, Michael Collins Williams he is a professional planner and the CEO of the West End Builders Association and previous to that spend 17 years at the Ontario Home Builders Association. He is of course an expert in Planning and Policy and he is here today to share several facts and figures to what is causing the housing crisis and where the challenges and opportunities are...

We have some super successful real estate investors with us today in Stuart and Denise MacPherson.  They’re self-described “Zoomers” as in boomers with a lot of zip.  When you hear about their journey as real estate investors you’ll know how much zip they have. From starting with limited resources at retirement age including Stuart asking his dad for money for a downpayment on a home to becoming e...

On to this week’s show!! My friend Elizabeth Kelly is joining us to share what’s she’s been up to the last two years since she was last on the show. Elizabeth was a paid instructor of real estate training and has trained hundreds if not thousands of investors in rent to own, wholesaling, buy and hold, etc… many of the influencers today have been her students. Elizabeth has done over 100 rent to ow...

On to this week’s show! We have Nick Peitsch, he’s a young, 25 year old hustler making his way investing in stocks, making 500-$1,000 per month by creating educational videos on YouTube and house hacking in Northern Alberta.   Nick shares how he was able to learn from entrepreneurial parents and grandparents to start his wealth hacking journey without fear. His favourite stock picks (his opinion,...

We have one of our real estate clients in Mike Ferreira, an admitted introvert, shy guy.  He’s full time truck driver for the Beer Store but one day something switched and Mike started making educational videos on real estate and posted regularly to his Instagram.   Then what do you know, someone approached Mike at a party, asked him for a meeting and was ready to be his joint venture, silent inve...

On today’s show, Anderson shares about his humble beginnings, immigrating to Canada (no one told him how much it snows here when he was recruited), how he underemployed as a Chef thanks to the pandemic but pivoted starting new businesses, the side hustle that earns him $25,000/year after expenses to fund his investing, how Anderson explains Stock Hacking to his friends and how he spends his profit...

When we first met Joe, he was 24 years old and had saved $80,000 from holding down multiple jobs at the same time since he was 16. A month later, Joe had his first investment property and one day Joe was complaining to me how expensive properties are these days.  It was then I asked him to review for me what his net worth is today vs. what it was when we first met.  From $80,000 to over $1,000,000...

We have a special treat in my old friend Mike Desormeaux who I met back in 2010 when I joined Rock Star Real Estate.  Mike is modest but from my recollection, he’s been the top agent and coach at Rock Star in terms of unit volume and his clients love him. Mike wasn’t always successful though, he comes from some serious humble beginnings, from living across from the train junction yard to living ou...

On to this week’s show! Today we have my old friend Rachel Oliver who has achieved massive success via an investment strategy called rent to own having executed 500+ deals on said strategy. As always with this show, we look to bring you the leading subject matter experts and without a doubt we have one today in Rachel Oliver of Clover Properties. On this show Rachel pulls back the curtain on how s...

On to this week’s show! Tim Tsai is a full time real estate professional investor and for Tim that means only working 20 hours a week. After achieving financial freedom in his late 20’s after 25 months of hustle, he took on a contract to teach what he’s learnt for almost seven years. Tim and I have a pretty open conversation on today’s show.  He shares how he’s had several heart attacks before the...

On to this week’s show! This week we have the lovely Kayla Andrade, hopefully by now all you real estate investors know who Kayla is. She’s been running a not for profit, grass roots organization called Ontario Landlord Watch to bring us landlords together to support one another and mobilize politically, inform the powers that be the challenges we small, private investors face in creating more hou...

On to this week’s show! This is how well planned some of our shows are, George and Jessie were on their way through town for a wedding so they stopped in for a podcast.  George’s story I know, he’s a pharmacist, lives and invests in big cash flow properties in Belleville, Ontario, two hours east of Toronto. Jessie who I’m meeting for the first time, shares with me that she started an online busine...

On to this week’s guest, my very own coach for the last seven years Mary-Anne Gillespie.  She’s a business coach, a Realtor, real estate investor, cancer survivor, orphaned and homeless at the age of 16, and more recently and insanely, an Iron Man Triathlete.  An Iron Man Triathlon is a mere 2.4 mile open water swim, 112 mile bike ride, and finally a marathon run of 26 miles.  And she trained and...

This week we have YouTuber, real estate and stock investor Griffin Milks on the show. He’s only 24 years old, for many he was set with a government job that came with a pension, his whole family works for the government and he quit. Griffin quit to focus on real estate and creating videos.  Today he has four small multifamily properties in Gatineau, Quebec that cash flow quite nicely plus he’s ear...

On to this week’s show! We have a special guest in Kevin Hyunh of Empire Mortgages.  He’s special as he’s a friend and one of my trusted mortgage brokers to find me inexpensive mortgages so I may continue to invest in real estate.  Two weeks ago, we closed with a mortgage brokered by Kevin and team and we have another duplex expected to close in about a month from now requiring Kevin’s magic as we...

We have one of our real estate clients on the show today to share expertise and experience as always to grow our mastermind. If you don’t know what a mastermind is, it’s a group of like minded people who share and support one another and today’s guest recently wrote a book on titled “The Indispensable Survival Guide to Ontario’s Long-Term Care System” The question is what are your plans when you’r...

Today’s guest Michael Ras happens to be both our real estate investor client and graduate of the Stock Hacker Academy. Michael is successful in both having flipped a couple houses and holds a couple houses in Brantford and the Niagara Region and cash flowing $750-1,000 per month with a $30,000 account. That’s all par for the course for guests of this show and what’s really interested in Michael ha...

Here is my cousin’s story: he’s a professional musician and like many, he doesn’t make a ton of money, no pension but he does have supportive parents, he’s invested in real estate and he knows how to research and grind. Chubby’s story is no different than many millennials, he doesn’t have huge savings for down payments for real estate but he’s managed to cash flow $57,000 in 18 months with a less...

One of my favourite things to do in the world is to make a difference in people’s lives but not just anyone, those who put in the effort to get ahead in life. That brings us to Joel Arndt who reached out to me over direct message on Facebook a while ago followed by an ask me anything on my podcast.  Then six months ago Joel was on to share his investing success, now six months later I wanted an up...

This episode is actually a re-release of last year’s #1 downloaded episode recorded in October 2020. Joel Arndt is a young guy, single dad, from North Bay, Ontario millennial who like many wanted to get into real estate but the capital required to invest in a house can be steep for those without help from parents and other relatives but with his newly learnt skill of stock hacking, he’s been able...

Kathleen shares a lot of things in common with you the audience and myself. She doesn’t do mutual funds even though she would get paid to. She’s not a fan of RRSP’s and prefers cash-flowing real estate, Stock Hacking, her small business as a Financial Planner, and whole life insurance, more importantly how she borrows from her life insurance for the capital to invest in three houses plus bankroll...

On to this week’s show!! Fresh off the golf course from a lesson, we have the mothers of real estate.  For those watching on YouTube, our Truth About Real Estate Investing channel, please pardon our attire as these moms are busy having ten kids in total between the three of them and real estate empires to manage. We came directly from golf to record this episode so we’re dressed casually and I hav...

To celebrate 200 episodes, I have my real estate team here today because they’re the ones who got us here today to share some lessons from the last five years and 200 episodes.  Five years is a milestone as we all have five year goals and the team is here to share some investor stories from the last five years. So today we have our biggest podcast in history in terms of people on the show and we h...

On to this week’s show!! We have architects and innovators of laneway housing Ryan Fernandes and Craig Race from www. Lanescape.ca Young Ryan reached out via my website to let me know he’s been a long time listener, more recently investor and what he’s going going on workwise with Landscape designing laneway homes which are like laneway garages repurposed into apartments or a new build tiny house...

Soon after they shot out of a cannon buying a lot of property over a short period of time. I remember meeting Matt at a Rock Star VIP dinner event (remember having dinner in a restaurant with friends?) and I remember him sharing how he was concerned about paying the double land transfer tax for a house in north Toronto. That was 11 years ago, thankfully they did the deal and I’m sure the house has...