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The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians

337 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratings

The 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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Episodes

How A Former Barista Found a Passive 30% Cash Return With Just $10,000 With Joel Arndt

July 27, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 82.9 MB

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 update and Joel, our millennial, former barista is back to share about his investment journey, t...

How To Cash Flow $400 Per Month With $10,000 to Invest With Joel Ardnt

July 19, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 76.9 MB

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 to cash flow 30% over 12 months using strategies learnt from attending Stock Hacker Academy wi...

How a Certified Financial Planner Personally Invests, 5 Questions to Ask a Financial Planner w Kathleen Van Den Berg

July 10, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 85.3 MB

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 her stock hacking account. FYI the really good financial planners charge a lot of money for ...

The Mothers of Real Estate (M.O.R.E.) With Monika, Gillian and Rachel

July 03, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 115 MB

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 have hat head lol. Gillian Irving shouldn’t need any introduction, she’s returning now for th...

Lessons From 200 Episodes With The iWIN Real Estate Team

June 26, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 101 MB

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 have: Tammy “the Duplex Queen” Ditomaso James “Money Baggs” Maggs Tim “Clap Back” Hong.  ...

How To Invest in Laneway Housing With Lanescape.ca

June 19, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 79.1 MB

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 on a laneway behind the house.  The progressive Toronto government makes laneway housing attr...

50/50 Joint Venture With Dad, 12 Properties in 15 Years, 21% ROI in 5 Months Stock Hacking With Matt Spada

June 12, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MB

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 tripled in value.  Funny how investing in real estate can change lives. 11 Years later, Mat...

Investing in Insurance To Buy More Real Estate With Jayson Lowe

June 05, 2021 16:00 - 41 minutes - 49 MB

Today we have my friend Jayson Lowe of Ascendent Financial who is kind enough to provide Cherry and I whole life insurance. If you never heard of whole life insurance and how it fits into the Infinite Banking concept, that’s ok. Like learning how to invest in real estate, it wasn’t anyone's job to teach you and I only got first interested when several of my wealthy real estate investor friends shared with me, whole life insurance was their path to more mortgages.  There is a right and wr...

How To Small Scale Develop A Property Using Free Land With the Infill Boys: Andy, Charles & Steve

May 29, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 93.5 MB

On to this week’s show! How To Small Scale Develop A Property Using Free Land With the Infill Boys Before I introduce the guys, we are quickly approaching our two hundredth episode and I want to thank all 16-17 of you listeners for being a part of this journey for us.  This all started as a weekly blog in 2010 (and it’s still going) then we started this podcast in 2016 to discuss the realities and learning lessons of real estate investing.   Including how not to lose money, which is a gr...

The Path To $1M Per Year with Corrie George

May 22, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 133 MB

This week we have my controversial friend Corrie George Elief and just a heads up, while Corrie has invested in real estate, done a flip, plans to invest in apartment buildings, that’s not why he’s here today and we barely talk about real estate. Why Corrie is here is because the truth about real estate is, the majority of real estate investors have great paying day jobs. That’s how they can convince the bank to lend them hundreds of thousands of dollars.  But first, having a six figure in...

Investing in Student Rentals, A Trampoline Park, & Crytocurrencies w Gillian Irving

May 15, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 94 MB

Today, I got to podcast with my real estate client Gillian Irving and because we are working, as in helping her maximize her return while listing a couple of her investment properties, I hope it’s legal that we also had lunch together to catch up then record this podcast where we got to talk about several of my favourite subjects. We talk about hacking fitness and exercise, investing in real estate, specifically student rentals, the methodical journey to success, stock hacking, investing i...

The Land Banking Real Estate Lawyer w Hussein Kudrati

May 08, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 121 MB

One of my real estate lawyers Hussein Kudrati is here today to share his own experiences in the family business where among many things, they invest in real estate with the long term in mind including what’s called land banking.  Hussein and family have benefitted from generations of entrepreneurship and he’s here to share what it’s like and even though he was born into privilege, how he was raised to be humble and hustle. Hussein has a ton of experience which comes in handy when they brin...

Lessons In Commercial R.E. Through Crashes, Why Focus on Industrial & Nursing Facilities w. Shane Melanson

May 01, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 83.4 MB

This week we have returning guest Shane Melanson who is one of the most active commercial real estate investors I know. He’s pretty big time having bought 100’s of units, he’s developed tens of thousands of square feet of commercial/industrial properties and now he’s involved in skilled nursing facilities which is kind of like less urgent hospitals so the operating costs are much less than hospitals.  Shane is here today to share lessons from investing during a crash and the time it took t...

How The Armchair Investor Achieved Financial Freedom By Age 55 With Michael Dom

April 24, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 75 MB

This week we have my old friend Michael Dominguez as our guest here to share about his journey and lessons to accumulate 11 duplexes and a couple apartment buildings.  I know we’ve had some past guests share aggressive, full time, active investing strategies so it’s a nice change to hear from someone who relied on investing smart and letting time invested in the market do all the heavy lifting for him.   Michael is here to share how he obtained financial freedom, and not so fun experienc...

Scaling Up From Single Family Houses to 150 Unit Buildings in the US, Hosting a MultiFam Conference w/ Seth Ferguson

April 19, 2021 01:50 - 1 hour - 91.1 MB

On to this week’s show! This week we have real estate influencer and multifamily/apartment building investor Seth Ferguson. Seth shares lessons from his nightmare joint venture, his journey from local, small residential investor to apartment buildings in the 150 unit range in the US. The structure of these types of private equity investments and how even passive investors may participate. Seth also shares his motivations for hosting a multi family investor conference in 2022, you can find ...

How to Smith Maneuver, Tax Advantages of Owning a Tesla, Personal Real Estate Corporations with Cherry Chan

April 10, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 86.7 MB

Now on to this week’s guest, my wife, Real Estate Accountant Cherry Chan, CPA, CA and we covered a wide range of topics, eg. what investments work based on the tax returns her team is preparing, how to maximize tax savings on mortgage interest on your home, why buying an electric vehicle like a Tesla makes financial sense from a tax standpoint, what’s it’s like being a crazy entrepreneur married to a crazy entrepreneur and so much more. FYI Cherry will be our May iWIN Meeting keynote speak...

How To Buy A Condo for 2.5% Down, Democratizing Real Estate w/ Former AirBnb Executive Daniel Dubois

April 03, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 87 MB

On to this week’s show!! This week we have a former AirBnb Executive who was responsible for much the North East of North America but he left his dream job to start Life at Key where he is making a difference by making real estate, specifically condos available to folks with as little as 2.5% down.  This is not the traditional rent to own investor strategy either.  I’ve never heard anything like this before so for you social capitalists like me, I hope you enjoy this show. Daniel Dubois ...

4 Flips in 2021, Changing Diet, 51% ROI Stock Hacking, Investing Must Be FUN with Susan White Livermore

March 27, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 76.8 MB

On to this week’s show! This week we have my friend the lovely Susan White Livermore who’s here share about her upcoming book, how she changed her eating to get back to her high school weight, the homework she gives her coaching clients so they feel comfortable investing other people’s money, how she’s stock hacking to a 50% return, doing four real estate deals in the first 9 weeks of 2021 while sticking to a 15 hour work week. And for fun, I asked Susan what dating apps she’s using… P...

From Not Knowing One's Own Parents To Immigrating from Scotland, to China, to Canada, Leaving Corporate and Buying Duplexes with Tony Cheung

March 20, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 100 MB

This week we have one of our clients, Tony Cheung who just recently moved to Canada from China so his two young kids may have more opportunity. Tony’s journey to here has not been the smoothest: from being just born then being raised by his grandmother while his parents moved without Tony to a different country for opportunity.  To growing up working in the family chinese take out restaurant in small town Scotland, to working a difficult corporate job with long hours to investing in houses w...

How To Score 100% On A Personal Finance University Assignment

March 13, 2021 17:00 - 35 minutes - 42.1 MB

A young man, Adnan, a university student from the University of Western Ontario, my alma mater reached out asking me if I would be his subject for a school project on personal finance.  I’m not a great educator nor story tell but I can share my experience on what has worked for me so that’s what this episode is.  The tables are turned and Adnan asks the questions. Maybe this episode isn’t for you but maybe it would help someone on the younger side. Please enjoy!

Lessons Investing In The Pandemic, Misfiring on US Investments, Building Houses for Investment With Andrew Hines

March 06, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 82.9 MB

On to this week’s guest Andrew Hines! Andrew is a builder, invests in student rentals, he has his own podcast the Andrew Hines Real Estate Investing Podcast. Andrew is on the show today sharing how he started investing in real estate including the time he went to the US to invest, how that experience didn’t go so well but Andrew took responsibility to learn from that experience to become a better investor and how he’s become an indemand builder of investment properties. On the show, Andr...

Building a Brand of Influence, Alberta Market Update with Best Selling Author Russell Westcott

February 27, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 77 MB

Speaking of my favourite hedge against inflation, real estate, I don’t know many people who own more real estate than today’s guest in Russell Westcott. He’s been through a lot of economic cycles being an Edmonton, Alberta real estate investor.  Russell is an old and good friend of mine so it’s always great to catch up on what he’s up to to help people out.  He’s possibly the top real estate investor coach out there and it helps that he’s owned over 100 properties and co-authored the best se...

The Nice Wholesaler Who Did 26 Deals Plus 10 Flips in 2020 with Aaron Moore

February 20, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 74.3 MB

I’ve been friends with Aaron Moore for quite some time. What most don’t know is he’s very successful and an even nicer guy.  Most don’t know who he is because he doesn’t have a huge social media presence, he’s quietly doing deals and crushing it. In 2020 alone, Aaron did 36 deals including 10 flips. In this episode Aaron is kind enough to share some tips for those new to wholesaling and his path to build out his team. I know I took a ton of notes and I hope you do too.

Retiring From A Government Job To Full Time Invest in Windsor and Stock Hack with Joe Morden

February 13, 2021 05:00 - 51 minutes - 59.5 MB

This week we have Joe Morden who recently retired from his sweet paying government/union job to invest in Windsor real estate and Stock Hacking to make a living, but more importantly to spend a lot more time with his wife and three children. Joe shares the networks he belongs to help him on his journey, some of his numbers for his flips and duplex conversions and what life is like retiring from the career he’s had for over a decade.

Investing In Apartment Buildings Across Canada with Michael Ponte

February 06, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 84 MB

On this week’s guest, we have nationwide apartment building investors Michael Ponte! I first met Michael at a real estate conference many years ago where he was collecting his award as apartment building investor of the year. Michael invests all across Canada and more recently in the maritimes provinces and he has a unique strategy, one I can’t recall I’ve heard of before in the multifamily space. Michael also shares some tips on how he’s able to invest in real estate on the other side of ...

From Top Real Estate Coach in Canada To Launching New Authors From California

January 30, 2021 17:00 - 52 minutes - 61.4 MB

On to this week’s returning guest and it’s only been a five short years since episode 1 featuring Julie Broad. Well she’s back and not much has changed!! Except she left her dominant position in the real estate influencer space in Canada to move to California and open a new business. She still invests in real estate in Nanaimo, BC but she’s here today to share about her new book coming out, share why everyone needs to write a book and a few how to’s to make your book a good one. She’s th...

From Pumping Gas for a Living in Ontario to Moving to Edmonton as a Full Time Investor and Opening a Bank With Wayne Hillier

January 23, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MB

Now we recorded this interview almost a month ago so I’ve asked Wayne for a quote on the pending Keystone pipeline cancellation.  He says it sucks. LOL.  Another good friend of mine tells me Alberta invests heavily into renewable energy so do your own research and decide for yourself. Wayne Hillier has been investing in Edmonton and Leduc since 2015.  He’s a dad, husband, landlord. He’s the host of his own podcast the Real Estate Investor Dad Podcast. He’s starting his own bank, I think th...

Financial Lessons of 2020 from the Wealth Hacking CFP With 14 Properties and 1-2% Cash Flow Per Week With Kathleen Van Den Berg

January 16, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MB

On to this week’s show, we have old friend Kathleen Van Den Berg Kathleen van den Berg, MBA, CLU, CFP. I think she’s great because she’s one of the few Certified Financial Planners who recommends owning real estate and she owns a fair amount of real estate too.  I invited Kathleen to return to the show asking her to share what lessons she’s sharing with her financial planning clients. Kathleen’s bio: I have the best job in the world ... and I have a ton of fun doing it. I specialize i...

Starting Investing While In School, Growing Portfolio to 10+ Properties, Surviving the Lockdown, 57% ROI Stock Hacking With John Beddome

January 09, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 83.8 MB

John owns over 10 investment properties including single family duplex conversions, small apartment buildings, he’s well known in the investment real estate community as a Realtor in Barrie, Ontario and surrounding areas.  I first met John at a real estate networking group about ten years ago because he loves to learn and network just like I do.   Last year, John took the beta version of Stock Hacker Academy and in 2020, his return at the time of recording was 57%. If you would like to see...

Leaving Corporate By Investing in Condos, Then Duplex Conversions, Then Apartment Building Conversions, Six Figure Side Hustle Stock Hacking With Martin Kuev

January 02, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 66.4 MB

This week we have my old friend Martin Kuev on the show.  Martin like many had a young family, a well paying job in corporate, started a side hustle investing in condos and progressed into renovating single family homes to create basement apartments, then again levelling up into serious apartment building renovations for highest and best values. Definitely innovative stuff so I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did. We talk about life, the challenges of Martin leaving his executiv...

From Immigrant, To Single Mom, To Apartment Building Investor, Award Winning Real Estate Broker, To 6 Figure Stock Hacker With Khatera Osman

December 26, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 71.5 MB

Her story is pretty amazing but she wouldn’t tell you it is. Khatera was born in Afghanistan, a war torn country but thankfully her family was able to immigrate to Germany, from there Khatera moved to the greatest country in the world and became interested in real estate.  She became a real estate agent, then built an award winning team, started investing in condos and graduated to apartment buildings East of Toronto.  As someone who loves to learn, in the fall of 2019, before knowing wh...

How A Former Teacher, Now A Contractor Buys Off Market Houses to Duplexes And His New Found Six Figure Side Hustle With Rene Masse

December 19, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 73.9 MB

Speaking of rich friends, this week our guest is Rene Masse, his parents were school teachers, Rene went to school to become a teacher, didn’t last a week and became a full time contractor and real estate investor.  His focus was largely student rentals and no more on converting single family homes into two family homes. Rene is also a successful graduate of www.stockhackeracademy.ca where he’s achieved over $100,000 in returns this year, his rookie year as a stock hacker and for anyone in...

How Dave Knight Got Started in Real Estate, Graduated to Wholesaling and Flipping, and Giving Back to the First Responder Community

December 12, 2020 17:00 - 49 minutes - 46.5 MB

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 hacking so he may share that with his community as well.  Afterall, everyday heroes need six figure...

3 Side Hustles For Multiple Streams of Income: Real Estate Syndication, Hedge Fund, and Realtor with David Sun

December 05, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 59.2 MB

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 projects such as a student rental residence with hundreds of bedrooms. David is a part time Re...

Raising Capital On Social Media, Flipping, Sourcing Flips, Flip Math, Private Lending With The Fruitful Investor Mat Piche

November 28, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB

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.  If you didn’t already know Mat, he’s very successful and he’s here today sharing a ton of tips,...

Replacing Teacher Income With MLM and Real Estate and $200,000 On A Duplex Conversion with Pascale Brisson

November 21, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB

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 online in multi level marketing. I’ve invited Pascale on this show because multi level marke...

Age 26, Making $300,000 in 20 Months On Cash Flowing Duplexes and 70 Hour Weeks With Joe Costanza

November 14, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MB

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 he’s already duplexed and the third to be duplexed house with a joint venture partner.  This ...

10 Duplexes In Five Years, 100% Committing to Wealth Hacking, Cash Flowing 1-2% per WEEK with Kris Lewis

November 07, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 66.3 MB

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 income streams extremely boring. Kris is a real estate investor focusing on the Durham reg...

Free Land to Build, Basement and Garden Suites To Maximize Cash Flow With Andy Tran

October 31, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 69.1 MB

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 accessory dwelling units is they are the best way to maximize your cash flow and overall returns ...

Lazy Investing To 17 Properties in 10 Years, Tripling Salary, Condo in Costa Rica, $4,000 per month Stock Hacking, Retiring the Wife With James "Money Baggs" Maggs

October 24, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 76.9 MB

James MBM or Money Baggs Maggs, left his corporate job for a major telecom company, purchased 17 investment properties, retired his wife, tripled his work income in real estate by helping everyday folks invest in real estate, learnt to stock hack for $4,000 cash per month, and improved his health and spends more time than ever with his friends and family in just ten years.  This is his story.   To Follow James: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jemaggs/?hl=en

Landlord of 75 Properties Retiring From Landlording With Mike Rosehart

October 17, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 84.9 MB

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 problems, day to day management of a sizeable portfolio and all its moving parts including pro...

The Worst JV Divorce I've Ever Seen With Seth Ferguson

October 03, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB

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 case you’ve missed it:  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYzZrt9Zipc Web: https://se...

Fighting For Landlord Rights, Cambridge Market Update With Kayla Andrade

September 26, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 73.1 MB

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 our guest speaker for the next iWIN Meeting on Saturday morning of Oct 24th.  We have very limit...

How A Former Technology Executive Automates His Real Estate For Mega Savings and Profits w Christian Szpilfogel

September 19, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 102 MB

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 with his time, he is a former executive at one of Canada’s most well known technology companies i...

Commercial Investing for 160 Units Locally and in Curaçao. Plus How They Paid For Their Trip Around the World With Leslie and Jamie Collard

September 12, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 74 MB

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 make sure to have your pen and paper ready. They’re even hosting a commercial real estate confere...

Personal Growth Of A Single Parent From Selling Tupperware To Real Estate To Investing for 50% Returns and Stock Hacking with Lynne Tham

September 05, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 68.2 MB

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.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca. It’s a wonderful Canadian success story of a teenager immigrating to Canada, falling in love with the greatest country in the world.  Started a family,...

How To Maximize Returns via Highest And Best Use Real Estate With Ryan Carr

August 29, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 73.7 MB

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 budget… how did it work out? You’ll have to listen to find out. Plus for the first time, Ryan talk...

How To Maximum Returns via Highest And Best Use Real Estate With Ryan Carr

August 29, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 73.7 MB

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 budget… how did it work out? You’ll have to listen to find out. Plus for the first time, Ryan talk...

How A Veterinarian Quit His Job By Investing in Real Estate and Stock Hacking with Michael Bugg

August 22, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 61 MB

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 couple apartment buildings and how he lost money stock hacking during the covid crash and th...

Proving The Husband Wrong, Investing in Cottages, Developments, Retail Commercial, and Stock Hacking for Six Figures with Monica Lee

August 15, 2020 16:00 - 46 minutes - 43.7 MB

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 full time real estate investors. Monica invests in cottages for short term rentals, a couple com...

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Grant Cardone
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