The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians
326 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians is by Canadians for Canadians eh? The show is exactly that, we speaks truths, no get rich quick schemes, investing is a marathon, if you're looking to get rich quick this is not the place for you. Instead, we invest based on economic fundamentals using tried and true best practices that generate wealth for the long term.
The Show is hosted by Erwin Szeto aka Mr. Hamilton. Erwin is a professional real estate investor, Realtor at Rock Star Brokerage Inc., 2015 winner of Realtor of the year by the Real Estate Investment Network AND the Canadian Real Estate Wealth Magazine. He is an expert in his field and knows his business like no other.
In this show, he deconstructs world class investors, digging deep to find the tools, tactics, and lessons that all investors can use.
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Unfiltered: The Real Challenges and Triumphs of a Full-Time Investor with Adam Kitchener
April 17, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 94.3 MBWe have my friend Adam Kitchener back on the show as we get along because he keeps it so real. No pictures of him on a private plane, or luxury vehicle or luxury watches. Well he does actually but they’re obviously photoshopped as he’s poking fun at the phonies out there. Don’t get me wrong, luxury stuffs great. I personally luv it when folks celebrate their success and reward themselves. Keep in mind, most successful people in my experience don’t brag about their wealth, read “the Mil...
Cash Flowing $10k USD Per Month on 20 Houses He’s Never Seen With Andrew Kim
April 10, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 73 MBReturning to the show is Andrew Kim from Brampton who identifies as American. He used to invest locally, the return on time wasn’t there so he bought 20 houses in landlord friendly USA ten years ago now he cash flows over ten thousand US dollars per month. His Accountant Carmen was the one who guided Andrew to invest in the USA along with several of her Accounting and Financial Planning Clients since 2008. Since then they’ve combined forces to make the same opportunities available to every...
Multifamily Conference is Coming May 24-26th With Seth Ferguson
April 03, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBWe have returning to the show my friend Seth Ferguson and I want to thank him for hosting the biggest real estate event of the year May 24-26th. The Friday is a 101 for beginners then the main course is the Saturday and Sunday and I’m excited to see all my friends from the community, hopefully our 17 listeners and Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort. I don’t know his full story outside of the Leonardo Dicaprio movie, he did go to jail for doing awful things with peoples’ money but I know h...
Mastering Real Estate Cycles: Insights from CEO of REIN, Patrick Francey
March 28, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBThis week we have a very special guest in Patrick Francey, CEO of the Real Estate Investment Network (REIN for short). What makes REIN special in my experience is they’ve always been affordable, REIN has been around longer than pretty much all the other real estate education or networking organizations. They focus on economic fundamentals and cash flow, they literally teach both subjects extensively once per year in each of the cities they operate. As such, their members are among the m...
Tom Karadza, co-founder of Rock Star R.E. on Coaching 1000+ members to Success
March 19, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 99.3 MBOn today’s show, we have one of my mentors and brokers in Tom Karadza, co-founder of Rock Star Real Estate Brokerage, Inc who in my experience is one of the best leaders and influencers in our community. If results are what matters to you like they do for me, Rock Star’s 1000+ members are well educated in investing and are among the most successful especially after you adjust for risk. No get rich quick schemes at Rock Star. On today’s show Tom and discuss how Rock Star members have weat...
Navigating US Mortgages As A Canadian With Scott Dillingham
March 05, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 99.1 MBOn to this week’s show! Today we have my Mortgage Broker Scott Dillingham from Windsor Ontario who as far as I know is the only investor specialist who can help Canadians with mortgages in both Canada and the USA. Scott while he was the #1 mortgage broker at one of Canada’s biggest banks got my clients and I many mortgages at cheap rates and I’m now selling one of them. Scott has since opened his own mortgage brokerage called Lendcity, he shares how American debt service coverage ratio ...
50 Strategic Flips: Navigating Market Shifts with Luc Boiron
February 28, 2024 18:00 - 54 minutes - 64.8 MBOn to this week’s show, someone polar opposite to my strategy of lazy investing: fully involved and active investing including having executed on 150 or some deals in 2023 including 50 flips. While Luc Boiron lives in Ottawa, he has flips are far as Vancouver and while flips are sexy as people love to watch them on tv or take courses on flipping… well I’m sorry, not sorry we have Luc here to share a behind the scenes look at why he’s flipping and it’s not what you’d expect. Luc is the fou...
2024 Tax Update, How Many USA Houses We’re Buying With Cherry Chan, CPA
February 20, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBOur guest should need no introduction, it’s my lovely wife the Real Estate Accountant Cherry Chan! Cherry Chan is here to share about the convoluted changes by our Federal government who seem to know more about what real estate we own, they keep coming out with half baked ideas only to delay, delay, make us all jump through hoops, make busy work. It’s really complicated stuff but Cherry is a talented messenger who can explain what the Trudeau, Liberal government is doing. We also...
From Florida Fixer-Uppers to Muskoka Vacation Resort for 70 With Rachel Holden
February 14, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBIn this enlightening episode, Rachel, with a background in advertising managing a $65 budget and a significant journey in real estate investment from growing up in a duplex to owning investment properties in Florida, investing in duplexes and garden suites in Barrie, Ontario to now full blown cottages resort business owner and operator in Muskoka. Rachel's story of strategic investment and personal growth. Our conversation touches on the challenges of property management, the insights gaine...
Epic Fail II $144M In Debt, $54M Unsecured Seeking Bankruptcy Protection
February 07, 2024 18:00 - 57 minutes - 67.8 MBOn today’s show I invited my good friend Christian Szpilfogel to discuss the sad truth about real estate in managing and recovering distressed assets, understanding the root causes and having proactive strategies. We discussed the risks of private lending, the responsibilities of the borrowers. Christian has the unique perspective of having worked in a heavily securities regulated environment of Mergers and Acquisitions when he was a general manager under one of Canada’s richest Canadian...
From $9K To Invest, To $20M Portfolio, Exiting Niagara Falls for USA With Jeffrey Woods
January 31, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBReal Estate Journey: Woods started with a $69,000 property, gradually moving to multi-family properties, mixed-use, and commercial buildings. Market Shifts: Discussion on the changing real estate market dynamics, particularly in Ontario, Canada, and his strategies in response to these changes. Personal Strategy and Lifestyle: Woods talks about his transition to investing in the Dominican Republic and the U.S., focusing on lifestyle alongside investment returns. He stresses the importance...
Mastering US Real Estate Investments While Working From Home With Canadian Glen Sutherland
January 24, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 98.8 MBWe have podcast host of A Canadian Investing in the US, Glen Sutherland, hey’s a nice, sharing guy, a seasoned real estate investor, and he’s here to share his own journey of how he ran into a wall investing in Ontario then pivoted to the USA in 2017 and never looked back. Glen shares insights from his experience, including strategies for finding and managing properties, navigating different market conditions, and the importance of building a reliable team all from the comfort of his home...
Investing Pre Foreclosure: Local Canadian Flips US Mortgages With Chad Urbshott
January 16, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBThis week we have professional, full time investor Chad Urbshott who lives in near me in Oakille, Ontario but he’s been investing in the US since 2013 and doing so remotely from Canada. He’s tried pretty much all the small residential investing strategies, fix and flip, wholesale but found his niche by specializing in U.S. mortgage notes Chad discusses his journey and strategies in the complex field of note investing. He emphasizes the importance of thorough due diligence, explains various...
$7Billion or 20K AUM in Landlord Friendly USA with Dmitri Bourchtein
January 10, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBDmitri Bourchtein (CIO & Co-Founder of SHARE) was formerly an Executive Director of Investments at Starlight U.S. Residential, with direct involvement in over $7B of U.S. residential real estate transactions. Dmitri is a seasoned institutional investor with experience in all aspects of the real estate value-chain and is passionate about levelling the playing field for retail investors in the competitive landscape of U.S. SFRs and enabling everyday landlords to maximize their returns. By th...
Cross-Border Investment, Tax, Planning Mastery to Financial Balance Point With Carmen Da Silva
January 03, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBThis week’s guest Carmen Da Silva, a Canadian who lives full time in Florida who knows a lot about investing for cash flow in the USA. Carmen Da Silva (CFO & Co-Founder of SHARE) is a CPA in both Canada and the USA. She articled with Price Waterhouse Cooper specializing in corporate and cross-border tax. Carmen built an insurance platform that allows boutique investment brokers to sell tax-sheltered insurance using Family Office Teams. She generated in excess of 500M AUM in just 5 years, s...
Best Developer Investment, CEO WEHBA, Planner Mike Collins-Williams
December 18, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBI’d like to take a moment to reflect on the human beings negatively affected by investing on pre-construction or speculation. There have been many and will be many more people losing their 15% deposits on pre-construction condos and houses and they’re on the hook for any costs and losses incurred by the builder when they resell the property. In combination with a slowing economy and job losses it’s just awful out there. In a country with massive affordability issues someone was going t...
Converting 1 House Into 8 Units in Calgary and Tenant Screening with Mackenzie Wilson
December 13, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 86.5 MBOn to this week’s show! MacKenzie Wilson is a risk adverse, smart guy as he got into investing in Calgary real estate and wisely knew that screening for the right tenant was absolutely key and that the wrong tenant would lead to a living nightmare. This coming from a Calgarian! Ask him what he thinks about the investing in BC or Ontario!! MacKenzie Wilson is an advocate for affordable housing and reduces the risk for landlords and tenants across Canada. With this MacKenzie has created a...
Investor Buys A Canada Post Franchise with Tim Hong
December 06, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBOn to this week’s show! We have my old friend Tim Hong, we’ve been associates at Rock Star Real Estate and coaching investors since 2011. Tim has done several joint ventures in rent to owns, an apartment building, student rentals. Tim has his own property management company for condos to duplexes from Toronto to Hamilton to Kitchener-Waterloo. In his newest venture, a cash flow play, Tim acquired a private, off market Canada Post franchise and he is approaching one year of ownership and ...
Five Figures Per Quarter, Feel Good Motel Investing With Victoria Cluney
November 28, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBOn with the show! This week we have the lovely Victoria Cluney who has a different journey than most… well at least she is the first career Canadian Armed Forces personnel to be a guest of this show. Victoria shares her journey of how she stumbled into being a landlord by renting out her home when she was transferred by work to different bases, which made great money but it wasn’t until she developed her cottage property for short term rental income did she realise what she enjoyed most. ...
How and Where Canadians May Invest in Florida with Ryan Poole
November 20, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 95.8 MBOn to this week’s show! Our guest is basically a Canadian as he grew up in Minnesota near the border. Ryan grew up further north that the vast majority of Ontarians so he knows snow, hockey, black flies and cold winters. Then he smartened up and moved to Florida and participated in some roller coaster markets including the financial crisis and housing market crash of 2007-2009. Ryan will share his experience on how they made a killing back then. Ryan is well beyond just being a Realto...
Why I'm Investing In US Real Estate
November 14, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBInvesting for positive cash flow, areas of job growth and warm weather, regaining control of the retirement investment plan and legacy portfolio; all this and more on today’s episode of the Truth About Real Estate Investing Show for Canadians. I’m your host Erwin Szeto, landlord since 2005, Realtor and Coach to investors since 2010, 4X Realtor of the year, $400,000,000+ in client transactions, and host of this little podcast that could that is ranked #81 Business podcasts per Apple iTunes....
Major Announcement. How We are Making Real Estate Great Again
November 07, 2023 18:00 - 19 minutes - 24.2 MBHello and welcome to the Truth About Real Estate Investing for Canadians, my name is Erwin Szeto, residential real estate investor since 2005, and in my experience, the investment that has gotten my over 350 clients ahead in life is direct ownership of real estate as they own the property, manage it themselves or hire a property manager, and grow their portfolios by borrowing cheap mortgage money. My team here at iWIN real estate has been coaching clients to do so since 2010 and it’s been a ...
Global Real Estate Maverick: How Francois Lanthier Is Redefining Investment Norms from Costa Rica
October 30, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBOn to this week’s guest Francois Lanthier has already exited his long-term rentals in Ontario a while ago and now lives in Costa Rica with his wife and teenage kids. Francois has investments in New Brunswick, Alberta, Michigan, Florida, Dominican Republic, Dubai, with plans to find more investments in Eastern Europe and Panama. It’s like he trying to buy up all the spaces on a Monopoly board! On this show Francois details what he thinks is an ideal investment in Costa Rica and a three da...
Alternative Borrowing for Flippers and BRRR Investors with Calvert Home Mortgage Investment Corporation
October 24, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBWe have Calvert Home Mortgage Investment Corporation in the house! OR Calvert for short. The specialise in short-term financing for flippers, BRRRR investors, even pre-construction investors who need short term financing to close a property so they may immediately sell said property. As a real estate geek, I enjoy learning about what’s going on the in market, where investors are putting their money and borrowed money from Calvert to work. Where do they find deals? What cities, provinces, o...
Systemized Management of 168 Units All Over Ontario and Cleveland with Lena Gurgis
October 18, 2023 17:00 - 43 minutes - 52.6 MBOn to this week’s show! We have the lovely Lena Guirguis on the show! Her Asset Management company NV Property Management since 2005 manages 168 units including 32 of her own. Her portfolio is incredibly diversified from owning a commercial flex space in Richmond, residential properties around the GTA and apartment buildings in Cleveland, Ohio. Lena is the founder of Stilettos and Hammers, a networking and educational real estate investment network for investors at every stage. They’re...
30 AirBnbs: Lessons as Full Time Managers With Mai and Jonathan
October 10, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBOn to this week’s show we have my old friends Mai Nguyen and Jonathan Lim who’s travel agency business was hit hard by Covid but thanks to their experience as early adopter AirBnb hosts were able to successfully pivot into short term rentals, specifically AirBnb and now own a couple and manage a total of 30 Airbnb properties. From Muskoka Cottages two hours north of Toronto, to downtown condominiums, to recreational properties in Niagara Falls they have quite a bit of experience on what wo...
20 Houses in USA, Looking South For Affordability & Cash Flow With Andrew Kim
October 02, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBOur guest today is Andrew Kim, with ten years of real estate experience starting in the GTA, before building a portfolio of 20, fully managed properties in the state of New York, Florida, Atlanta and Dallas. He’s a serial tech entrepreneur who’s worked in Silicon Valley startups and is now combining his passion for real estate investing with his technology. Andrew’s company combines the expertise to handpick quality investment properties for Canadians in the US., writing offers to arrang...
Starting a Private Housing Task Force With Kayla Andrade
September 25, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBWe have a long-time friend of the show Kayla Andrade, President of Ontario Landlords Watch, a grass roots, not for profit organisation, there’s almost 10,000 Facebook group members. Kayla has been advocating for landlords ever since her local city passed a by-law that if a tenant doesn’t pay their water bill, said debt gets applied to the landlord’s property tax. Got to love how landlords are expected to back stop the tenant’s debt. Kay is here to share about best practices and how we ma...
Pivoting to Find Cash Flow, Exiting New Brunswick, ONT With Elizabeth Kelly
September 18, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 94.6 MBIf you need help improving your record, myself and my lovely friend, today’s guest Elizabeth Kelly loves to help too. It’s why we get along so well. Hopefully Elizabeth Kelly does not need an introduction. She tells it like it is. Elizabeth was a paid, professional educator for Rich Dad Canada since 2012 and taught a couple thousand investors, including many of today’s influencers, coaches, full time real estate operators. She has own property management, Sandstone Property Managemen...
Bank of Canada Hold Rates | Economic Slowdown | Recession Inevitable
September 08, 2023 05:43 - 14 minutes - 17.9 MBIn this episode, I am breaking down the newest updates from the Bank of Canada on what's happening with interest rates. There’s talk of a possible recession and the economy slowing down, and we're here to get to the bottom of it all. Using fresh info from Stats Canada and the Bank of Canada, I look at how the continuous increase in interest rates is affecting not just the big picture, but our day-to-day lives too. From what we are spending at home to what's happening in the housing mar...
$100M Commercial Portfolio to Microdosing With Greg Habstritt
September 06, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBOn to this week’s show! As always, I look to bring you a variety of guests to share their unique experiences and journeys. Today we have old friend Greg Habstritt back on the show to share what he’s up after dominating the influencer scene, owning a $100 million dollar real estate portfolio, going through dark times both economically and personally. He invests in Calgary Alberta afterall. To his current personal interest and finally aligning his personal passion with curing mental healt...
30+ Year Mortgage Veteran is Angry. Very Angry! And Why With Ron Butler
August 28, 2023 17:00 - 49 minutes - 58.7 MBIf you follow the real estate news in Canada as much as I do on paid and free sources as much as I do then you will have already heard of my guest this week in Ron Butler who started in the Mortgage Brokering business just after the housing crash happened in the late 1980s and his business Butler Mortgage is one of the largest Mortgage Brokerages in Canada. Ron is known as the Angry Mortgage guy. His podcast is literally called Angry Mortgage where he rips on all the things wrong about rea...
What’s A Better Investment? Building an NHL Franchise or $100’s of Millions of Real Estate With Bruce M Firestone
August 21, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBOn to this week’s show! The Ottawa Senators recently dominated the hockey headlines as it’s been reported they sold for around $1 billion dollars US. While Bruce M Firestone is no longer the owner, I’m sure he’s proud that what he started has ballooned to a massive success. Imagine if the Sens had kept future hall of famer, defenceman, Zdeno Chara then the Sens like every NHL team would have a Stanley Cup before the Leafs but I digress. As mentioned before, Bruce has built 1000s of hom...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impact and On Real Estate with Nicholas Ning
August 14, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 90.8 MBOn to this week’s show where we discuss deflation and how to be on the winning side of AI. Our guest Nicholas Ning likes solving complex problems making them easy to understand and creating value. Over the last 10 years, he’s worked for Fortune 500 companies on multi-billion dollar projects around the world in strategy, finance, design, and marketing. He’s also been hired by real estate companies, big time developers to design business models using numerous AI tools to design and market...
Recreational Property Investing: Hundreds of ACRES, RV Sites, Even a Golf Course With Darvin Zurfluh
August 10, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 95.1 MBWe have my friend Darvin Zurfluh who has a huge private equity brokerage called Pinnacle Wealth Brokers. If you’ve been around the investor community, you’ve likely seen them around at events but today we have the founder of the company joining us from Calgary, Alberta. If you’re not familiar with private equities, well you need to be as good as private equities is part of the reason you’ll hear me say, it’s better than ever to be rich as the options for investing have never been so good...
From Sales Exec to Debt-Free Living: Tim JP Collins' Journey to $100k Passive Cash Flow and a Simpler Life
July 31, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 88 MBOn to this week’s show! Tim JP Collins is an old friend of ten years or so, one of our most successful clients and has achieved the cash flow goal almost every new investor has when we first meet with them. $100,000 or more passive cash flow per year so they can vacation more, not worry about money, retire their spouse, etc… Tim is back on the show to update us on his journey from high paid, high stress Tech Sales Executive to being debt free, over $10k cash flow per month from his stock...
Replacing Executive Pay in Tech w/ Mixed Use Commercial/Res with Christian Szpilfogel
July 25, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBOn to this week’s show! Today we have a full time real estate investor who’s really really smart. I’ve known Christian for a couple years but only in this interview do I get a better understanding of how he transitioned out of an executive position in the tech industry into a full time investor. What’s especially interesting is how Christian originally capitalised his investing and how he found a bunch of cash flow, enough to replace his job income in mixed commercial/residential real es...
Cash Flowing Windsor, Sudbury; Arson, Sleepless Nights, Quitting Corporate w/ 27 Y/O Austin Yeh
July 18, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBOn this week’s show we have a very real conversation with full-time, professional investor Austin Yeh who does it all: wholesales, flips, BRRR’s, negotiates his own cash for keys, podcaster, meetup host and it’s not all pretty. Austin shares how he’s had to rebalance his portfolio, wholesaling market slow down, which are short-term problems as he’s successfully transitioned out of his corporate job in Feb 2022 to investing in Windsor, Sudbury, even downtown Toronto. Austin shares how he ...
Private Lending Update, Losses From A Downmarket With Calvert Mortgages
July 10, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 86 MBThis week we have our friends from Calvert Home Mortgage Investment Corporation back to give an update on the private lending/mortgage market including lessons from the downturn: e.g. what did in default real estate investors do wrong have in common so you the listener, my clients and I may avoid the same mistakes. Please keep in mind, real estate investing can easily be done wrong and less right. Ask anyone who speculated on pre-construction and is negative cash flowing or does not have ...
Rental Market Update. How To Find The Best Tenants With Rent Panda
July 03, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 97 MBOn to this week’s show! We have Hart Togman, owner, founder of Rent Panda who’s been helping our clients locate tenants for my clients’ investment properties. How good is Rent Panda? Hart tells me they’ve had one non-payment of rent issue among 900 to 1,000 successful leases. That’s pretty darn amazing so if you want to know how to be a successful landlord with paying tenants you will want to listen to this episode. Rent Panda also now offers Property Management Services and Hart sha...
Investor Impact: Olivia Chow's Victory in Toronto's Mayoral Election
June 29, 2023 17:00 - 18 minutes - 23.9 MBMing is a Toronto Real Estate Expert and head of Volition Properties’ Investment Realty Services having helped clients accumulate $200,000,000 worth of income properties in the City of Toronto from condos to mid size apartment buildings, specialising in small multifamily in top neighborhoods. Ming is here today after Olivia Chow won the Mayoral race of Toronto and vows to build a more affordable city. To follow Ming: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/volitionproperties/?hl=en ...
Episode 300: From Flipping 1 House to 1,000+ Membership With Nick Karadza
June 27, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 91.4 MBNick Karadza is a real estate investor who discovered the power of leveraging real estate through "boot camps." Starting at 21, he bought, renovated, and flipped properties for profit but realised it wasn't generating the desired cash flow to replace his job income and it was a lot of work. Nick shifted to rental properties, achieving monthly cash flow and recouping his investment. Nick founded Rock Star Real Estate Brokerage Inc. and the Rock Star Inner Circle with his brother to assist ...
84 Units, Worth $14 million, No Partners, Still Grew Too Fast, Deleveraging With Kellan James
June 20, 2023 17:00 - 56 minutes - 67 MBKellan James was recommended for this podcast by my wife’s team at Real Estate Tax Tips. You see, Accountants know who are actually successful at making money hence Kellen is our guest today. Kellan has successfully transitioned out of his corporate job. His timing for explosive growth was well timed, his deals were profitable and well executed including his more recent deleveraging stage of consolidating his portfolio, paying off more expensive private mortgages to manage cash flow. Ke...
When Private Loans Go Bad & Bailing Them Out. Lessons from Managing $150 Million In a Downturn With Kyle Ford
June 14, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBYou know about the downturn we just experienced and like many of you, I was curious how private mortgage companies fared so I reached out to Kyle Ford whose company manages $150 in private mortgages. Kyle tells it like it is, he shares how many mortgages went sideways, what the lessons were, how Kyle and his staff put time and money into taking over failed BRRR’s and flips to finish projects and sell them off and make his clients whole. Why? Because it’s the right thing to do. Treat othe...
Why Condos Are Bad. Highest and Best Use, Triplex Conversions East of the GTA Are Good
June 06, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBHave you met Steve Phillips? He’s a member of my team, the four time award winning iWIN Real Estate. Right out of school he worked for one of the largest condo management firms in the GTA, he’s a serial entrepreneur, had a construction business, real estate runs in the family as the Mrs. is a designer. Steve is well known in the Durham region as well within the investor community having been coached by, and taken courses by Quentin D’souza. If you know Steve like I do, he doesn’t sleep un...
66 Wholesales/Year, Scammed By Fake Seller, Flipping In A Down Market with Aaron Moore
May 29, 2023 17:00 - 59 minutes - 70.5 MBWe have my old friend Aaron Moore on the show who is an extremely successful real estate investor, wholesaler and flipper. Aaron and I met monthly to mastermind for three years so I know him well and can verify he’s a nice guy and he’s much more successful than many of the real estate influencers on Instagram. Aaron is the only wholesaler I know who guarantees the purchase from the seller including the time he got caught in the downturn, knew he was going to take a loss and did it anyways....
Peak Multifamily Investments W/ $40M AUM & Starting a REIT
May 23, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBWe have great guests who just launched their new apartment building REIT, a real estate investment trust. If you don’t know what that is, it’s like a fund where the underlying is a bunch of apartment buildings and regular investors like you and I can own shares in the fund to participate in the investment. Mike Rockall and Mark Baltazar our guests today are the founders/owners of Peak Multifamily Investments and I’ve known Mike a long time, we met sometime around 2010 as we were members o...
Financial Planning Includes Real Estate Per This CFP/CPA: Dominique Chenard
May 15, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBOn to this week’s guest who’s tired of the real estate craze! At least the craze has died down a little with several education companies and coaches having disappeared. Such is the real estate cycle, weak hands get flushed. We have Dominique Chénard owner of Chenard Wealth who provides managed investments, financial planning, insurance, group benefits, and Accounting Services. She is CFO of her four rental property business to her husband who serves as COO with a plan to stop growing the...
Investsing in Multifamily Downtown Toronto With Volition Properties
May 10, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBWe have Matthew Lee and Ming Lim, the owners of a full service real estate business called Volition Properties who happen to host the largest meetup in Toronto and if you can believe it, them and their community successfully invest in Toronto and we’re not talking about condos, we’re mostly talking about small multifamily including significant renovations to add apartments including laneway suites since 2012. If you’ve been investing the right way in Toronto since 2012, you’re likely rich...
How to Buy Apartment Buildings and Raise Capital With Savvy Investor Michael Ponte
May 02, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBToday’s guest Michael Ponte is an old friend of mine, us old guys who’ve been buying properties and REIN members over ten years ago. We’ve known each other and run in the same circles what feels like forever and forever is the perfect time horizon to own real estate. Michael owns, with partners Apartment buildings across the country: BC, Alberta, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, probably Saskatchewan too. Michael is a Savvy Investor and that’s his social media handle and name of his private ...