All posts by Quentin DSouza
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 hear the word passive income and mistakenly assume that it does not require any time at all, particularly when you’re talking about renting out a […]
Continue readingBeware – 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 lose wealth quickly. I’m going to keep the numbers simple throughout this article and avoid any complicated formulas to understand this. When you take out […]
Continue readingJust 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 that I have gotten better at over the years is how often I say no to different opportunities that are presented to me. In the […]
Continue readingOntario 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 who seem to only enact policies to suppress demand. It is no wonder that many Ontario investors seek to put their dollars to work in […]
Continue readingSocial 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 an apartment building oftentimes you will see in social media a picture of the apartment building.. What you are not seeing is the work that […]
Continue readingMom 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 outline a few of them when it came up again recently. When you are dealing with the one to four unit property you are usually […]
Continue readingHave 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 A, plan B, and plan C on every deal that you do, sometimes even a plan D. That is also something that I do with […]
Continue readingAre 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 could be private placements in companies, invest venture capital into startups, angel investing, or real estate deals. There are many ways to be considered accredited […]
Continue readingAre 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 what a good mentorship looks like and who would make a good mentor. Depending on what you want to do, you can use mentors to […]
Continue readingHow 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 for 97% of the errors that happened. I constantly hear and read about people giving advice around what to purchase and what they should be […]
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