Hello Fellow Real Estate Investors! Don’t you love summer vacation?

70+ Properties In Only 15 Hours Per Week With Susan White-Livermore

To Listen:

On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/truth-about-real-estate-investing…/id1100488294

Google Play: http://goo.gl/CAM5Mn

On Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=87335&refid=stpr

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Sponsored by:

TitanInvestmentRealEstate.com – would you like to know how our investors returned 341.8% on positive cash flowing real estate over the last five years? On average, that was 68.4% per year, just imagine what winning in real estate could do for you. If you would like to know how we did it, ask us how by calling 289-288-5019 or email us at admin@mrhamilton.ca. Don’t delay, the top markets we focus in are trending upward in price, so you can pay today’s price or tomorrow’s price.

HaltonREI.ca – This episode is brought to you by my networking group, the Halton REI. We meet in Oakville (part of the Halton Region), but mainly invest in the top investment towns west of Halton: Brantford, Hamilton, Niagara Region.

We regularly feature the top speakers from our industry. The vast majority of our attendees are seasoned investors, so you will want to spend more time around these folks, as you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Your net worth is your network, so choose how you spend your time wisely.

Knowledge is power. Every meeting we share the latest in market rents, prices in the top neighbourhoods, and strategies for investment. We share the best property available as our Best Buy Property of the Month. We share the best tips and tricks for you to implement immediately to your investment businesses to fast track YOU on your journey to financial freedom. It’s up to you if you’d like to be on said journey.

To get on the invite list please register at https://www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/meeting/ and you will receive an invite to the next Halton REI meeting once announced.

But don’t listen to me, here’s what members of our community are saying about the Halton REI!!

Show Notes:

The Science 
Of 
Getting Rich Kindle Edition by Wallace Wattles

YOU, TOO, CAN BE PROSPEROUS by ROBERT RUSSELL

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

WORKING WITH THE LAW by RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

To reach out to Susan:

Thank you real estate investors, readers, listeners and clients for your kind words and nominations!!

This past week, the Real Estate Investment Network bestowed upon myself and my team at Titan Investment Real Estate, the winners of 2018’s Realtor of the Year. We are now two-time winners. We last won in 2015, along with our wins as Agent of the Year by Canadian Real Estate Wealth Magazine’s in 2016 and 2017.

Thank you Denise and Stuart for the epic photo!!

Our efforts are proof that the good people doing good things in Business and in the community can excel in the investment real estate industry. Thank you to the Real Estate Investment Network for this award. To be honest, I didn’t think we would win considering the very steep competition. All four finalists had all previously won the award and are doing wonderful things for their own respective clients and communities.

I’d like to thank our clients for believing in us to follow our advice in their pursuit of financial freedom and security for themselves and their families. I’d like to thank the OG’s of REIN – original gangsters Don R Campbell, Russell Westcott, and Melanie Tenant-Reuter, plus the current leadership team Patrick, Richard, and Jennifer.

Thank you again to my team: Tammy, Meaghan, James, Han, Koukun, Maria, John, Charles, and Tim. Thank you to my broker owners and mentors in Tom and Nick Karadza. Thank you coach Mary-Anne Gillespie.

I’d like to thank my wife and kids for putting up with my attempts at a work/life balance, without their support and inspiration, this would not be possible.

Finally I would like to thank my parents for uprooting their lives to move half way around the world for a better opportunity for themselves and their children and grandchildren.

Thanks listeners and readers for being part of my community and this is only the beginning, we have big and better things planned for our clients and the Hamilton Basket Brigade in 2018.

Stay awesome everyone and just do it because I believe in you!

And if you wonder why we won the award? Just have a listen to this week’s guest, the legendary John Roumanis, my friend and client who is doing quite well with his real estate investments.

7 Years Part Time and $800K in Returns

John Roumanis is back again and upon his insistence we opened a 2009 Italian bottle of Chianti (I can’t help but think of Hannibal Lector’s line how he ate liver and kidney beans with a nice Chianti…) and chatted about real estate, mindset for success, challenges and successes, stock investing and so much more.  I know it’s a long episode, but do listen to the end to hear what motivates John. It wasn’t what I expected.

John is my friend and client, he holds a CPA, MBA, and he’s a part time instructor at Sheridan College to round out his busy life as an executive at a major coffee company and new father.

To follow or contact John:

on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/john_roumanis/

on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnroumanis/

To Listen:

On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/truth-about-real-estate-investing…/id1100488294

Google Play: http://goo.gl/CAM5Mn

On Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=87335&refid=stpr

Download as an MP3 by right clicking here and choosing “save as”

Hello Real Estate Investors!!

Along with all you do-gooders and entrepreneurs; parents who are hustling hard for a brighter future for your families!!!

Last week was a great week because of how my less conventional diet changes have worked out.

About 2.5 months ago, I started intermittent fasting and time restricted eating: basically instead of breakfast, I have half a cup of coffee with a tablespoon each of grass fed butter and organic coconut oil. That’s it until I eat a bit before my noon time workouts: usually a banana and protein shake with a bunch of amino acids. Lunch and dinner are bigger meals and I do my best to eat healthy, I rarely drink but I’m hardly perfect. I just ate a slice of birthday cake while writing this post. 🙂

@suite_additions is over for breakfast. I ask how he takes his coffee and this is what I get #bpcoffee #bulletproof

A post shared by Erwin Szeto (@erwinszeto) on May 26, 2018 at 4:23am PDT

Note that I’ve done this all under the watchful eye of my doctor, so don’t try this at home, but I did try this twice before, suggesting to my doctor we try this out more regularly.

Admittedly, I don’t know the science but again, my doctor recommended intermittent fasting and time restricted eating after I learned UFC world champion Georges St. Pierre was doing the same to treat his colitis. We’re not on the same level, but I’m naturally high stress and I train a bit: 4 times per week (twice Crossfit and two or more Brazilian Jiu Jitsu).

Knowing the science or not, last week was test week at our Crossfit gym, we tested: front squat, push press, strict hand stand pushups and strict pull ups.  I set personal all time bests in each movement.

My previous best front squat was 265 pounds, test results = 300 pounds. Hand stand push ups, five weeks ago I did 13, last week 18 (one lower than the gym record and tying gym owner, Dan, who is one of the best athletes I’ve ever met), push press 205 pounds and 16 strict pull ups. Also I had some great sessions at Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, I still lose (quite badly) to the better practitioners, but I scored two submissions.

Overall, I am the strongest I’ve ever been while only doing Crossfit twice per week, I’m only one pound heavier and I appear to have less fat. I may not understand the science, but I’m more than happy with the results.

At my next appointment with my doctor, I’ll be asking if we can increase the fasting periods, as the schedule I currently follow is considered one of the easiest.

Starting an Amazon Business

Does is seem like Amazon is everywhere? They sure seem to be creating jobs in the thousands each time they are in the news: 3,000 jobs in Vancouver and, more recently, announced another 1,000 in Ottawa.

I’m fasting on Amazon, along with breakfast, but I can’t help but buy lots of books on my kindle, as I love reading it to fall asleep each night. But our household still buys tons off Amazon: phone cases, organic coconut milk, belts, hard drives, nail clippers, web cam, microphones (I simply look around my desk and sadly see hundreds of dollars spent buying off Amazon! LOL).

The Amazon marketplace is often the first place I look to shop, for convenience and home delivery. That’s where this week’s episode comes in as my friend and client, Kensen Wah, took the deep plunge to leave his successful career at a big bank to start his Amazon business and he’s here on the show to share how he started and his progress.

Show Notes:

Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&me=A383GP6YI87PZY&page=1

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenduranceclub/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheEnduranceClub/

Kensen on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kensen-wah-5736b619/?locale=de_DE

Hello Real Estate Investors!!

My Mother In Law visited us from Hong Kong this week, so I took some time off to do family stuff and my wife, Cherry, coming off tax season, needed some rest and relaxation too. Cherry Chan, CPA, CA will be sharing at the next Halton REI meeting the winning and losing investments from 2017, after preparing hundreds of tax returns for investors. The results may surprise you, they certainly surprised me! Hence, I asked her to share at our upcoming meeting on May 26th at Sheridan College.

Anyways, back to family stuff 😃

We did the local touristy thing 😃

On Thursday we visited Niagara Falls for the Bird Kingdom, the ferris wheel, the Falls of course (for only a few moments to take pictures for Instagram as the weather was cool), and finally buffet dinner at the Sheridan Hotel. The day was fantastic, as it rained earlier in the day and was a weekday, so the attractions were at a fraction of their capacity. No traffic, no line ups, we got an extra revolution on the ferris wheel, and we got the best table at the restaurant. A corner table with views of both falls, while enjoying a very nice meal.  I highly recommend anyone take this same fun day with the family or when entertaining guests.

Friday, was a PD day for our kids’ school and we made the drive into the urban jungle that is Toronto for the Ripley’s Aquarium. The kids loved it. One of my favourite things in the world is to watch my son do his happy dance and I caught him doing it twice. 😃

Sunday was a Piratelife.ca, a live interactive, theatre cruise around Toronto Harbour on a pirate ship, staffed by pirates who all gave great performances. Cherry booked this activity after our kids came home from school talking like pirates. We all dressed up with face paintings for tattoos. Again, I recommend for the kids or if you are young at heart.

For Mother’s Day dinner, Cherry’s family all got together for a feast, plus custom made-to-order birthday cakes for my cousin in law’s birthday. Needless to say, I ate until it hurt and brought home piles of loaded takeout containers, as I do like to eat and this week I’ll pay for it at the gym. 😛

Investing in Rural Real Estate Outside Winnipeg, MB with Candice Bakx-Friesen

I was talking to my friend, Stephen Jones, at the May REIN meeting about the affordability crisis in the Golden Horseshoe’s real estate market. Stephen lives in the East, I live in the West, but the challenges are no different, where will the next generation live?

Stephen theorized that if our kids did not have investor parents, they would have to move to Winnipeg for affordability reasons.  I countered, “No, they will be living with you!” to which we both laughed, could you imagine? He’s got four kids too. Imagine if all the kids got married and moved back home with their spouses and started having kids.

Speaking of Winnipeg, this week’s guest on the show is Candice Bakx-Friesen, a rural investor since 2001, Realtor, Trainer to Realtors, Coach to investors, speaker, mother and wife.

If you’ve never been exposed to investing in rural real estate investing, you are in for a treat, as we have a professional in guest Candice. On this episode we talk about speculative investing, as in she developed a lot of land, built a house, and put it up for sale. What separates mature investors from amateurs. Kids stealing rent cash, what training looks like for Realtors, the challenges of working with investors, and general lessons in business, investing, and raising kids.

So without further ado I present to you Candice Bakx-Friesen

To connect with Candice

204-392-6406 or email candice@cbfteam.ca

http://www.candicebakxfriesen.com/

http://www.investorsmarts.ca/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/CandiceBakxFriesen