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Active vs Passive Investor

I know that there’s been a lot of discussion over the 18 years that I have been investing in real estate around how people describe real estate investing. Oftentimes we […]

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Beware – Dangerous Leverage Can Cause Bankruptcy

One of the power tools of Real Estate Investors is Leverage. This power tool can be used to create wealth quickly, but if used inappropriately, it can cause you to […]

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Just Say No

The great thing about investing in real estate for a long time and having a good reputation is that you are presented with many different opportunities. One of the things […]

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Ontario Real Estate Investors Focusing on the USA

With the state of the Ontario landlord tenant board bureaucracy as laughable, and the challenges that investors face trying to purchase properties with a huge lack of supply, and governments […]

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Social Media and the Tip of the Iceberg

The tip of the iceberg is when you see the photo at the finish or the picture of the building after it was purchased. Whether running a race or buying […]

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Mom and Pop Small Apartment Owners

I get asked all the time what the difference between buying 1-4 unit properties and buying apartment buildings.  There are quite a few differences but I thought I would help […]

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Have Backup Funding

One of the things that I have tried to drill into all of the people that I coached on investing in real estate was to ensure that there was plan […]

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Are You an Accreditted Investor?

An accredited investor is a person or entity that has special financial status that enables them to invest in opportunities that are not available to ordinary investors. These investment opportunties […]

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Are You Ready For a Mentor?

I’ve been working with mentors all my life, in lots of different areas of my business and in my personal life.  But I wanted to talk a little bit about […]

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How to Lose Big Money in Real Estate?

There is really only two ways that you lose money in real estate the first is being greedy and the second is not doing your due diligence. That usually accounts […]

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