I grabbed a coffee the other day with one of my old hockey coaches, whom I had reconnected recently with, after almost 20 years, as he had just finished writing a book, just like myself (well, almost finished), so it was great for me to learn how the process works. Anyways, the real reason he wanted to sit down, like most people whom invite me for a coffee, was to learn how to invest in real estate. As usual, there is only so much I can tell him because there are so many thin

So, you’ve began the process of learning how to invest in real estate, obviously, since your watching this video. You’ve been looking around on realtor.ca or realtor.com. seeing whats available in this market, that market. But you’re still wondering where to invest in real estate? There are just so many properties available and so many cities or towns to invest in. Don’t worry, because if you watch until this end of this video, I’ll share with you the main factor that you nee

Good ol' Banks! They think they run the show. That you'll just agree to whatever they tell you to. That was the case for me over the past couple of weeks as I was trying to refinance my 3 commercial, 2 residential multi-use building! On three different occasions, I didn't like their answer, which was NO. First no was regarding the valuation they were giving me on the building. It was about $30K less then even I had anticipated with conservative numbers. I immediately fired of

In last week’s video, and the one before that, I shared with you the best property to invest in, my favourite, the duplex, as well as how to calculate a properties cap rate, and cash on cash return. In this video, I’m going bring it all together and show you the one calculation you need to know when analyzing real estate.... Return on Investment (ROI). So if you're not sure how to determine a properties return on investment, watch until the end of this video and you will get

Of course I'm biased and this is going to be about investing in real estate. However, not entirely. My point is, don't just invest where you're told to invest. I had a beer with a friend this Tuesday, and he was very excited because he had just sold his starter home and upgraded to a much larger, more expensive home. He took the $100K in equity he made, and just put it into this more expensive home (Don't get me started on this gameplan again)! I get it, this is what the Amer

In last week’s video, I shared with you the best property to invest in, the duplex. But why a duplex? And more importantly, why invest in real estate at all? Well, for the amazing returns that you can achieve, and the wealth that can be made. But how do you know if the property you’re looking to invest in is going to make a good return. Well stay tuned to find out. In today’s video, I’m going to talking about 2 financial calculations you can use to determine if the property y

I don’t miss it! Yesterday we celebrated thanksgiving with a dinner at my wife’s Baba and Dedo’s home. Yes in Canada our Thanksgiving is earlier then the US Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! But this isn’t why I’m emailing you, I'm emailing you to tell you about my Thanksgiving dinner. You see, my wife’s sister was there yesterday, showing up late because she had to work. And the whole time she was there, she was working, phone call after phone call. That's because s

Got a message from a friend the other day, asking if I could send him the spreadsheet I use when analyzing properties. He wanted to confirm if his spreadsheet had all the same calculations as mine. Confirm that he was analyzing a property the right way. My response though surely opened his eyes as I asked him "which spreadsheet do you want"? It turned out, he only uses one generic spreadsheet when analyzing any property he was looking to purchase. So he was using that one spr

I was with some people whom I hadn't seen in almost 6 years last night whom stopped by our house with my Aunt and Uncle whom they were visiting. The topic as always quickly switched to investing in real estate as they knew I owned a bunch of properties. They told me how there son wants to take the next step with investing in real estate, as currently he owns a small property that he had purchased couple years ago, and could just afford, and to put some extra money in his pock