Here’s a quick update from these parts, my stock option selling is going great, my realized return is $550 and I’ve collected $1,100 in cash. 

In bigger news, my AirBnb is now sold, fully furnished, and we close in just a few days! I can’t wait to have that capital back so I can trade more stock options!  The plan is to increase my bank roll into six figures and take it from there. The last six weeks have been amazing for myself and our group of 70 stock hackers. With each day that passes, we have more investors reporting in their first thousand dollars in profits. Several have a couple thousand, my friend Monica reported 10% in returns in just six weeks. That’s a high number for the group thus far and, just to clarify, those are absolute numbers not annualized and the last few weeks have been quite good for the market… let’s see how long the stock market holds up.

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In even bigger news, we’re about to pass 1,200 in ticket sales for our Wealth Hacker Conference. I’m realizing I don’t often mention how many tickets we’ve sold, but for everyone involved, this is the biggest audience we’ve ever spoken to. Grant Cardone, our keynote, has done several talks to much bigger audiences, but this is yet another step out of my personal comfort zone.

Get comfortable being uncomfortable, I always say.  If you’ve followed my story of always trying out new things: AirBnb, private lending, stock option selling… and stuff in my personal life. I’m a weak swimmer but I got my SCUBA license and have done at least ten dives. Crossfit, Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, facing my fear of heights, etc…. I’m no one special, but I’m determined to just show up, go through the process, give my best on a daily basis, and results tend to show up. 

For my fellow introverts, this may shock you… I prepared and delivered a presentation in Toronto last week, I went through my slides once in preparation to a room of 50-60 of mostly strangers. I’ve never given a talk on joint venture investing in real estate before, but it was well received. Just like this podcast, I think people enjoy the no agenda, no-holding-back sharing we do on this show. One thing I don’t like to do on this show is to NOT scare the listener. As I produce this episode, Halloween is only days away but I’m talking about much scarier things, such as a recession.

Recession, recession, recession.  There I said it. I hear it often, I don’t know when it’s going to happen. My crystal ball is no better than yours, but what I know is my portfolio is designed for said occurrence because it pays for itself. My portfolio mix is almost entirely duplexes and student rentals in areas with very little vacancy.  

The great things about recessions is the opportunity to buy the bottom and retire shortly after, like this week’s guest Brian Zammit.

How An Investor Retired Him And His Wife With Dividends in 2011 With Brian Zammit

I’ve known Brian for a couple years.  He’s extremely successful with his eCommerce business of buying goods from the far east to market and sell to the west, some on Amazon too. Brian has been doing it very successfully for years.

Brian is also a real estate investor, but he didn’t retire off of his real estate. Regardless, he invests in real estate, which qualifies him to be on the show. However, I wanted this specific part of his story, so you the listener may benefit and hopefully retire shortly after the next recession like Brian and his wife did.  

Brian retired him and his wife off of the stocks he bought in 2008 and 2009, after learning how to sell stock options by reading Canadian author Derek Foster’s book “Money for Nothing.”  The same book we’ve mentioned on this show a couple times.

Brian timed a once in a lifetime opportunity and nailed it. He doesn’t think so, and I’ll let him explain, but if you can make an investment and retire off of it, I’m all ears because when the next correction comes, I want to be ready for it.  

Brian shares how he timed the market, the plethora of books he’s read, what he really thinks of Omar and Matthew’s Stock Hacker Academy, the same program him, myself and a couple other past guests are taking.

Brian is a good guy, really sharp, and I’m really glad we had someone like him in the first group through the Stock Hacker Academy to validate that the strategy works.

To follow Brian:

Web: ecommvip.com/register

Books:

• Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham
• The Investment Zoo: Taming the Bulls and the Bears, Stephen A. Jarislowsky
• Beating the Street: Peter lynch
• Bull in China: Jim Rogers
• Thomas Connolly: www.DividendGrowth.ca

Are you interested in learning more about selling stock options?  Our expert teachers Omar and Matthew’s next talk is at the Wealth Hacker Conference in Toronto on November 9th. 

For anyone interested, the presentation that opened our eyes to selling stock options, you can see that exact presentation if you use the promo code stock when purchasing your tickets to the Wealth Hacker Conference.

All you need to do is go to www.wealthhacker.ca and just before selecting what level ticket you want, click on the promo code blue hyperlink and enter stock.

Or use the direct link in the show notes: 

Link: https://wealthhacker.eventbrite.ca?discount=stock 

For anyone interested in taking the same Stock Hacker Course Habib did then save the dates Saturday and Sunday Nov 30th-December 1st for the in class portion of the next Stock Hacker Academy.  We will announce full details on November 9th at the Wealth Hacker Conference. See you there!!

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Hello and welcome to the Oliver Manalese show with your guest Erwin Szeto. LOL.

This episode is something different.  My old friend, Oliver Manalese, one of the most successful rent to own investors I know, asked me to be his first return guest on his show.  Oliver is a good guy. His business is to coach people through their problems, many self inflicted. I joked with Oliver when booking our interview,  “You’d be losing you S&$% with me if I was your client!” I know my coach already is. LOL.

Anyway, the tables are turned today. Oliver has known me for years, since 2008’ish, so it’s cool to be interviewed by an old friend who will ask those next level deep questions.

Without further ado, I give you some guy. He’s a husband and dad trying to figure out the most efficient path to financial peace and to make his kids proud.

Website: https://olivermanalese.com/2019/10/09/wealth-hacker/?fbclid=IwAR0aQqSU-zVVRnnsnAp6eW9irCLGDPLsHOckWVMIFlcOXHMx6sagG9VjhUk

To follow Erwin:

Website: http://www.wealthhacker.ca promo code for 10% off thetruth

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto

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

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erwinszeto/

Charity: https://www.hamiltonbasketbrigade.com

Are you newer to real estate investing or unsure of what to invest in next?

Would you like to know where the best areas to invest are near the GTA for the best return on investment?

Then you’ve found the right place as we’re here to help everyone from new investors to seasoned professionals. We have helped 100’s of everyday men and women buy their first investment property to their tenth property. It’s easier than you think.

My name is Erwin and you may know me as the host of this podcast and I’m also the owner of the iWIN Real Estate Team, the four time Realtor of the Year to Investors per the Real Estate Investment Network, and Canadian Real Estate Wealth Magazine.

My team of investor coaches are licensed real estate professionals who help everyday, hardworking men and women from the GTA grow their real estate portfolio in the most efficient way possible.  You are welcome to use any professionals and contractors you want but you’re welcome to our personal rolodex of professionals, the same people I use to become a successful real estate investor.

If you’re too busy, we understand. You have better things to do, have dinner with the family, watch the kids play sports. What we do differently is we will preview properties on your behalf to pre-screen only the ones that are ideal investment properties. Many of our clients features on this podcast will even make an offer conditional on a home inspection so they can both beat the competition and have a chance to view the property before making a final decision during a professional home inspection.

After the purchase, we can refer you to our favourite property manager who is a former police officer with 20 year experience with the local police department. He also happens to be well over six feet tall and 220 pounds with a keen eye for finding you great, worry free tenants so tenants never call you and you can go on enjoying life knowing your investment is taken care of.  As an added bonus of being our client, he only takes referrals from our team. This property manager is the most well reviewed property manager I’ve ever seen in my city.

You can’t get financing? You’re in luck.  My personal mortgage broker is the best I’ve ever seen in my investing career. You may just be talking to the wrong people about a mortgage whereas my guy has more relationships with various banks and lenders others just don’t and often they’re less expensive.

For any of the above, go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/contact, fill out the form and one of the coaches I’ve personally trained will get back to you.

You don’t have enough down payment or earn enough income? On my first properties I partnered with my ex in-laws.  If you don’t have family to partner with, then I would suggest you learn how to hack stocks like my past podcast guests Omar Khan and Matthew Todman.  They both earn a mid-six figure income in only 30 minutes a day by getting paid to own blue chip stocks at prices they want anyways. It’s almost money for nothing and as Robert Kiyosaki says, a must for the professional investor.

If this interests you, go to www.wealthhacker.ca/stock

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Hello Wealth Hackers!!

This is the truth about real estate show and our show title couldn’t explain better what it is we do here.

Thank you listeners and thank you guests of this show, September is a new personal best for us in downloads and our top episode is not what one would expect.  The episode with stock hacker Matthew Todman is already one of our most downloaded episodes ever and we did not spend much time talking about real estate.

Matthew is a serious real estate investor having 10 investment properties. To give that number of properties context, past guest of this show, Dion Beg, who is a mortgage specialist to investors, told me around 10% of his clientele achieve 10 or more properties. This coming from someone who only works with investors. What’s interesting is how he raised the funds for his down payments: selling stock options on safe stocks. Have a listen, as he explains it much better than I do.

Update on my Airbnb, as explained last episode, my September rents were projected to fall under that of a single family home.  Like many investors, we have lots of equity as we’ve been investing for quite some time with ten properties, so selling one in the pursuit of more cash flow is not the end of the world.

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Once in a while I get offended. Good friend Susan White Livermore only brought @millionaire_mom_enterprises shirts for the ladies of our mastermind so we piped up “where’s ours?? We look great in VNecks thank you very much!” Guys can be investor babes too!!

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I’ve shared this story to my mastermind group with some of the top investors in Canada and at the KWCREI meetup up. Thank you Doug and Anna for having me out to share. Surprisingly, no one disagreed with my decision. Well, one friend did, but when I clarified there was not an affordable option to legalize the basement into an apartment, she agreed and now she too wants to learn more about stock hacking. LOL.

Speaking of learning, to quote Warren Buffet, the most successful investor in the world, “the more you learn, the more you earn.”  My wife, Cherry, discovered Warren’s cartoon series for kids and it’s awesome! We don’t let our kids watch much TV. It’s not the easiest, as we have to then be more active parents, but when we discovered this cartoon series by the Oracle of Omaha, we had to give it a try.

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Now this is screen time my kids can watch! @officialwarrenbuffett Secret Millionaires Club!! My youngest already said it’s awesome!! . Credit to @realestatetaxtips for finding the show.

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The show is called Warren Buffet’s Secret Millionaire Club and it’s all free on YouTube or its website. Link: https://www.smckids.com/ The challenge with the website is I can’t get it to broadcast from my phone to TV. How lazy does that sound?? I’ll plug in my laptop next time, as some of the ads YouTube was showing before a children’s cartoon were quite questionable: ads for upcoming horror movies… smh.

In the show, Warren leads a small group of three young people as they figure through business challenges faced by young people. The first episode is about an unsuccessful lemonade stand. Warren runs down a checklist to figure out the problem and, spoiler alert, the lemonade stand is located on a low traffic street. Warren explains why a high traffic street would produce better results.

Each episode is short. We plowed through about seven episodes, and by the time we shut off the TV, my kids were repeating the “more you learn, the more you earn” catch phrase. Most of the time, the youngest mixes it up and says the, “more you earn, the more you learn”. 🙂

Quick update from my own investing, my ugly house that I bought without seeing that got Cherry really pissed at me: today the basement is being spray foamed, so we asked the tenants to not come back until after dinner. We also had a delivery of two brand new stainless steel fridges. The delivery folks will take the doors off the fridge, but I didn’t have anyone attend the delivery to take the front door off it’s hinges. Sigh. It is what it is, so I hired my property manager to take care of the property while it’s partly vacant.

He’s also the same person leasing out the remainder of the home as a student rental, so fingers crossed we can get it fully rented to cover those steep, B lender mortgage rates! Ironically enough, Warren Buffet is a mortgage share owner of the mortgagee.

My AirBnb is being listed this week. I had two of the coaches on my team provide me what they think I should list for and, not surprisingly, they independently came up with the same number. I’m selling it furnished, which is uncommon, and I am sending in Jacqueline, the same stager who furnished the house, to add some final touches for staging.

Even I learn something new everyday. Even the nicest furnished homes require some staging, Jacqueline tells me she’ll add around 12 items: plants and decorations. I put books and plates and cups on my coffee table at home. Most people keep those spaces clear when selling, but when staging, she will decorate working surfaces. I’m such a nerd, I find this stuff fascinating. The path to success is measured in inches, not miles.

Continue to be open minded and willing to learn everyday. Having Jacqueline, my stager, go also saves me a trip :). She has a detailed eye and will let my handman know to take care of anything touch ups necessary.

Update from the stock hacker world: as my wife always tells me, I’m over thinking it. LOL. My trades continue to be good ones as I continue on a positive trend with 6% returns in about five weeks and my cash flow is now $921. I have to be assigned shares as my low risk strategy is working out. Much credit goes to my friends who are experts: Omar, Matthew and Shawn who have all been trading for 12 years. Disclaimer time: I’m not recommending, only sharing what I do. If you want advice, please seek the advice of a licensed professional.

Just yesterday, I was on a guest of a podcast showing officer Dave Knight of the 911 Wealth Network how I do a trade. From my smart phone, I sold a put on Enbridge and was paid $84 to do so. The $84 is deposited to my account, then I put my phone away. It took me less than 15 minutes. I’ll check in again in the afternoon but just to see how the market is doing, and put my phone away again.

Needless to say that’s the easiest $84 I’ve ever made in my life, and I can not wait to scale my portfolio up to earn more passive income. As an added benefit, I consulted my Accountant for the tax handling of options income and I’m quite happy with it. Please check with your Accountant. 🙂

For anyone interested in learning more about stock hacking, my expert friends Omar and Mattew and sharing this little known secret on November 9th at the www.wealthhacker.ca conference. As an added bonus, if you use the promo code “stock” we will send you an exclusive video of a private presentation Omar and Matthew did for my members only iWIN group. All you need to do is go to www.wealthhacker.ca and just before selecting what level ticket you want, click on the promo code blue hyperlink and enter “stock”.

Or use the direct link in the show notes:
Link: https://wealthhacker.eventbrite.ca?discount=stock

If you don’t like stock hacking, well, I was the same. Then my friend Shawn sent me a YouTube video from 2014 of Robert Kiyosaki, author of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, explaining how every professional investor needs to know how to sell stock options along with investing in real estate.

Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfM_wKZ15dI

Selling My AirBnb To Fund My Stock Hacking & the Rent to Own Queen Rachel Oliver

On to this week’s show which has been a year in the making!

Rachel Oliver is an award-winning investor and co-host of Mothers of Real Estate TV Show. After 20 years in the corporate world, Rachel retired from the rat race to spend more time with her family and to invest in Rent to Own properties. Today, she is affectionately known as the “cashflow queen” because she helps investors profit with Rent to Own properties — without the headaches of being a landlord. She is also the author of an Amazon best-selling book, Rent to Own Essential Guide for Homebuyers. Together with her husband (Mr. No), Rachel owns and operates Clover Properties, one of the most reputable Rent to Own companies in Ontario. Connect with Rachel at Rachel@RethinkRentals.com

Host notes: pay special attention to husband Mr. NO, Neil Oliver’s, role and how Rachel gets her leads, and their qualifying criteria. The Oliver’s are extremely good at what they do.

Are you newer to real estate investing or unsure of what to invest in next?

Would you like to know where the best areas to invest are near the GTA for the best return on investment?

Then you’ve found the right place as we’re here to help everyone from new investors to seasoned professionals. We have helped 100’s of everyday men and women buy their first investment property to their tenth property. It’s easier than you think.

My name is Erwin and you may know me as the host of this podcast and I’m also the owner of the iWIN Real Estate Team, the four time Realtor of the Year to Investors per the Real Estate Investment Network, and Canadian Real Estate Wealth Magazine.

My team of investor coaches are licensed real estate professionals who help everyday, hardworking men and women from the GTA grow their real estate portfolio in the most efficient way possible.  You are welcome to use any professionals and contractors you want but you’re welcome to our personal rolodex of professionals, the same people I use to become a successful real estate investor.

If you’re too busy, we understand. You have better things to do, have dinner with the family, watch the kids play sports. What we do differently is we will preview properties on your behalf to pre-screen only the ones that are ideal investment properties. Many of our clients features on this podcast will even make an offer conditional on a home inspection so they can both beat the competition and have a chance to view the property before making a final decision during a professional home inspection.

After the purchase, we can refer you to our favourite property manager who is a former police officer with 20 year experience with the local police department. He also happens to be well over six feet tall and 220 pounds with a keen eye for finding you great, worry free tenants so tenants never call you and you can go on enjoying life knowing your investment is taken care of.  As an added bonus of being our client, he only takes referrals from our team. This property manager is the most well reviewed property manager I’ve ever seen in my city. 

You can’t get financing? You’re in luck.  My personal mortgage broker is the best I’ve ever seen in my investing career. You may just be talking to the wrong people about a mortgage whereas my guy has more relationships with various banks and lenders others just don’t and often they’re less expensive.

For any of the above, go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/contact, fill out the form and one of the coaches I’ve personally trained will get back to you.

You don’t have enough down payment or earn enough income? On my first properties I partnered with my ex in-laws.  If you don’t have family to partner with, then I would suggest you learn how to hack stocks like my past podcast guests Omar Khan and Matthew Todman.  They both earn a mid-six figure income in only 30 minutes a day by getting paid to own blue chip stocks at prices they want anyways. It’s almost money for nothing and as Robert Kiyosaki says, a must for the professional investor. 

If this interests you, go to www.wealthhacker.ca/stock 

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Hello Wealth Hackers!!

I hope you are all healthy and wealthy, growing and taking care of all aspects of your lives. It’s great so many of you are looking to 10X your businesses and investments, but don’t forget to 10X your relationships and personal life.  Eat well, exercise regularly, because being rich doesn’t mean anything without friends and family to enjoy it with. That is what being a wealth hacker is all about. That and taking the most efficient path as possible towards your goals.  

Thank for you all for sending in messages about how much you’re enjoying the podcast!! My favourite place to read your positive comments is as a five star review on iTunes. As we approach being eight weeks out from the Nov 9th Wealth Hacker Conference we are experiencing what is called crunch time. All the comments about how much the podcast has helped listeners improve their lives is very heartening during this stressful period.

What has also come with receiving all this attention is requests for my help either via my time, mentorship, free passes to the Wealth Hacker Conference, etc….

More than ever I’m receiving requests. Just recently a gentlemen reached out, out of the blue, and asked for free passes as they don’t have the money. I get not having money, like many of you I graduated university with $30,000 of student debt. I would have never thought of spending more money I didn’t have for an event.  In hindsight, I wish I did. I could have just borrowed from my dad and I could have 10X-ed my progress, but that’s how hindsight goes.

I feel bad for the guy as I have a lot of empathy for people, but for anyone who’s read the book “Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie, one does not immediately go in for “the sale.”  Instead one should provide assistance to the person whose attention you seek. With the internet and social media these days, one doesn’t have to do much.

Why not share my ads on Facebook or Instagram? Why not email one’s friends telling them they should go to my event? Why not even participate in one of the promotions I have in giving away a VIP ticket that includes a private and exclusive lunch, plus a separate meet and greet with Grant Cardone?  How about just liking one of my posts?

Nope, nothing. I even gave the gentleman a promo code to sell ten tickets and I’d give him one for free.  His reply was “thank you”, and that’s all I’ve heard or seen.

I recently read an article that interviewed a financial planner for wealthy families who specifically dealt with young people ages 15-25.  In her experience, if the parents paid for all their university, the kids would perform very poorly compared to kids who had to shoulder some of the financial responsibility.  Her suggestion was the child pay for year 1, parents cover the rest.

Same idea here, I don’t believe in giving things away for free. Those who pay, pay attention. The more skin one has in the game, the more serious they will be. Even for an event where we are attempting to change peoples’ lives.  

For anyone who hasn’t bought their ticket yet, come to learn strategies from the most successful wealth builders that will guarantee you to 10x your wealth, 10x your income, and 10x your life.  We have a jammed packed lineup of world class speakers who have already 10X-ed and want the same for you. Seats are extremely limited and this event will sell out.

As an added bonus, 10% of profits from the event go to support the Basket Brigade Charity, providing the most vulnerable local families warm clothing, daily essentials, and food. “Be the change you want to see in the world” ~Mahatma Gandhi

If you need more convincing, use my promo code thetruth to save 10% off.

www.wealthhacker.ca 

Nov 9th. Toronto Congress Center

The networking alone will be worth with folks like this week’s guest who bought a premium ticket and is coming all the way from Ottawa Ontario.

Investing In Multi Family Residential Without Competition Because No One Else Wants It with Christian Szpilfogel

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https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto/posts/10162284775485313

“Christian Szpilfogel started as a hobby investor in 2005 in the Ottawa area and, with Chaunei Chan, converted the hobby into a full time business in 2017. Originally they would acquire cash-flowing Multi Unit Residential (MUR) buildings and ride the market, but this has been refined into a more focused forced-appreciation strategy, including MUR renovations, expansions and new builds. Their early days taught them the basics of property management and as their portfolio grew they have become much more sophisticated in the management of their properties and the more intricate aspects of tenant management, especially when they pick up distressed assets with troubled tenancies. They have applied a number sophisticated methods in property acquisition, advanced financing and credit techniques, property management and tenant management. While they predominantly focus on MURs they also have about 25% of their holdings in commercial units. Christian enjoys giving back to the community and is an active participant in various landlord support and networking groups.”

To connect with Christian:

Web: http://www.aliferous.ca

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

Do you have questions on wealth hacking? The shortest path to financial success or questions on investing in: houses, basement suites, coach houses, syndicated mortgages, private equities, public equities, sandwich leases, lease to own, student rentals, AirBnb, wholesaling, off market deals, house construction.  I’ll admit when I don’t know and will dial a friend for an answer.  

If you have a question, we don’t have any fancy means to receive questions, so if you enjoy the show and want to leave a five star review on iTunes, your question will definitely make its way to me and I’ll answer your question on a future episode of this podcast.

I’m also grateful for all your positive comments and fans of this show. It is my view that life would be a bit better for everyone if we all could make and save a bit more money at the end of the month and if you make a lot more then your family and community would benefit even more and nothing would make me happier.  Until next time, my name is Erwin and I am a wealth hacker bringing you the truth about real estate investing for Canadians.

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

My apologies in advance for how many times I say the word “fascinating” in chatting with Ryan Poole who’s company, Real Trade, is coming out with a real estate listings service like MLS on a Blockchain platform.

But before I go there, for those following my story, I made it back in one piece from a bachelor party in Cancun, Mexico. I signed a non disclosure agreement, so not much to share, but I will share how I was getting home sick by the 4-5th day. I’ve been seeing all this talk on the social media about not buying one’s home, which only makes sense in select cases.  In Canada, the homeowner capital gains tax exemption is one of the biggest tax breaks we as Canadians will ever get, so that has to play into your consideration.

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Another simple one is, how much would it matter to you to have to move at the landlord’s whim? Like any other investor, I don’t like risk and I don’t like the risk of having a landlord or their family member wanting to move back and displacing me and my family from our home.

All you parents out there know how we will do anything for our kids, and I am extremely worried for young people with the state of our housing market. Too much demand from immigration, not enough supply with all the rising costs to build, combined with anti densification sentiment among municipal governments.

Is it out of the question for the cost of a house to double between now and 18 years from now? My real estate investing is not just for investment, but as a hedge in case housing prices get out of control, and I definitely think there is a chance of that happening.

We have hundreds of investor clients whose homes in the GTA worked out as great investments, and then they turned their home equity into 1-5 investment properties and from there, those original investments grew in equity for downpayments for even more investment properties. It’s tough to argue with that track record. Plus, if you own your home, you get to put down roots and enjoy it at the same time.

One still needs to wear their investor hat when choosing a home. I’ve told many not to buy where they want to live. Eg. condos without great transit in Toronto. Instead rent and buy a house just outside the GTA.  I have a family member who did just that. They rent on the east side of Toronto where the landlord deals with negative cash flow while my family member owns two investment properties just outside the city that do cash flow. It’s tough to argue with that logic too.

So remember, buy smart, even for your own home. Consider, would you have any problem renting out your home to pay the bills or part of your home on AirBnb? Vacancy rates are at historic lows where we invest and rents are up 10% over last year. 

Finally, my wife and I plan on leaving our current home to our kids, should they want to live there, and start a family with no mortgage payments. If I were a tenant, I guess I could sublet to my kids so they could take advantage of rent control, but it’s not quite the same. Plus my house could easily have a basement apartment, which was a major consideration when we bought it. In my opinion, your home is an investment if you make it one.

On a side note, I did something on social media that you’re not supposed to do. I replied to a hater’s comment. LOL.

He wrote on my facebook, “Dude my parents did not have as much money as you to give me for Real Estate investing 

Sorry dude I ain’t a rich cbc.”

CBC is short for Canadian born Chinese.

My reply was “dude, my dad came to Canada at 18, youngest of six kids, barely spoke english, my parents had three mortgages on one house, my mom rented out rooms and cooked for people in our home to make ends meet. I graduated university 30k in debt. We started from the bottom now we’re here. 

Your parents might not have been rich so it’s on you if you want your kids to come from a rich family.”

He goes to accuse me to teaching get rich quick schemes. We go on and exchange for a bit, then I click to add him as a friend. He accepts and is of course bewildered, asking if i’m trying to kill a hater with kindness. 

We get chatting, he’s a recent grad living in a small bachelor apartment with precarious income and $45,000 of student debt. I let him know, this is why I worry for my kids, to which he completely agrees. Our first agreement, he actually writes “kids without money are F*&#ed”, hence the reasons I’m trying to get the message out there via this podcast, my email list, my social media, our iWIN membership, and of course the Nov 9th Wealth Hacker Conference.

The hater asks if I have it good now to which I reply, “not when I was your age. lived at home with $30,000 in debt. unemployed for almost 12 months. first job was 35k salary.”

Now I have his respect that I wasn’t handed anything. Then I invited him to this month’s iWIN meeting as my guest, because I think he needs help and a change of scenery. He suggests I give the ticket to someone who could actually be our real estate client as he can’t. I explain that I’m in this business to help people. Don’t care about your net worth. I only care that you leave that meeting having learnt one thing or making one contact that moves you forward.

At the Wealth Hacker Conference on Nov 9th in Toronto, considering the line up of experts we have, I would expect all attendees to have more than one takeaway and one connection made.  If you’re looking to start or build a business, you need to be here. If you want to level up your real estate investing or buy your first investment, you need to be here. If you want to learn how to hack stock investing buy selling options to make six figures in 30 minutes per day, you need to be at the Wealth Hacker Conference.

Even all you haters out there. LOL.

www.wealthhacker.ca

As a listener of this show I have a discount code for you for 10% off. Code is thetruth – that’s it. One word. Do note, prices are going up immediately following labour day weekend and we are almost sold out of the coveted VIP tickets that include a meet and greet with Grant Cardone.

Speaking of Grant, here he is speaking of one of the truths about money..

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On to this week’s guest!

Just wow, my mind is blown. I was introduced to Ryan Poole, Founder of Real Trade, after I posted on Facebook in search of an expert on BlockChain and real estate. And what do you know, Ryan’s Major Goal: To combine blockchain technology with real estate to revolutionize the real estate industry for the better. He’s rolling it out in phases, including a globalized version of the MLS using Blockchain technology, and a later phase for a Blockchain based currency called The Real to buy and sell real estate, including fractional ownership of real estate. I’m probably not explaining it right, so listen closely to how Ryan explains it.

This is a very fascinating conversation, I promise you.  Ryan is also a friend to Canadians, as he helps Canadians buy real estate in Florida. We even chat about the best places for a vacation home, and how to finance it as I know you big time listeners can afford vacation property either now or in the near future. 🙂

To follow Ryan:

Real Trade (start by reading the one pager): http://realtrade.io/
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/ryan-poole-0b50b9162
FB https://www.facebook.com/RyanPooleFCL/
If you’re interested in Florida Real Estate: https://rsiasset.com/team/ryan-poole/

Do you have questions on wealth hacking? The shortest path to financial success or questions on investing in: houses, basement suites, coach houses, syndicated mortgages, private equities, public equities, sandwich leases, lease to own, student rentals, AirBnb, wholesaling, off market deals, house construction.  I’ll admit when I don’t know and will dial a friend for an answer.  

If you have a question, we don’t have any fancy means to receive questions so if you enjoy the show and want to leave a five star review on iTunes, your question will definitely make its way to me and I’ll answer your question on a future episode of this podcast.

I’m also grateful for all your positive comments and fans of this show. It is my view that life would be a bit better for everyone if we all could make and save a bit more money at the end of the month and if you make a lot more then your family and community would benefit even more and nothing would make me happier.  Till next time, my name is Erwin and I am a wealth hacker bringing you the truth about real estate investing for Canadians.

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Hello Wealth Hackers and welcome to another episode of the truth about real estate investing.

Happy birthday to my partner in business and life Cherry Chan!! She’s a Super Woman in how she raises our kids, keeps me and my businesses in order and has her own thriving practice.

Quick funny story about Cherry: While she was still working in the corporate world, we were dating then, and she would surf the MLS at work when bored (which was often) looking for investment properties, but she only owned her own home. After getting to know my business, we discussed investing in a student rental near Brock University in St. Catharines. My credit wasn’t great at the time as I was a new agent, so the house would be in Cherry’s name.

I called Cherry while she was at work after I found a house in my target location, next to the only major mall in St. Catharines that doubles as a major public transit hub. I gave some vague details about the property to Cherry over the phone and we wrote the offer. We paid the owner exactly her asking as she was already discussing listing the house with a Realtor. The location and condition was A++ and any investor would want the same house because the annual rent would be over 1% of the after-renovation value.

Cherry didn’t see the house until after we took possession and was happy with our purchase. A year later we were reminiscing about how Cherry joint ventured on a property without even seeing it, with her boyfriend she only knew less than a year, but she wasn’t concerned at all. Her contingency was that if things didn’t work out between us… she technically owned the house 🤣.

That was seven years ago. There were bumps. That basement flooded, a student snowboarded off the roof (he was on ODSP nonetheless), but otherwise it’s been an excellent investment having doubled in value and the rents have gone up and there’s been zero vacancy the whole time.

Happy birthday again to my wealth hacker wife, to infinity and beyond. Together. 😘🥰😍

On the subject of real estate…

A kind gentleman who left a 5 star review on itunes asked me this: “My commute is 2 hours and I am taking courses to become a licensed real estate professional, what audio books would you recommend?”

My two cents: “If you’re not first, you’re last” by Grant Cardone. The very same book, forms the teachings presented in part of Cardone University that he sells for a lot of money, hence there is a lot of value in the book.  I generally find we can all improve our sales skills. Sales is not what most think. The vast majority of sales people don’t take the profession as seriously as folks like yourselves do.  

No different than how the amateur invests in real estate vs. how a professional does. If you’ve ever been a secret shopper as a tenant viewing properties for rent or for sale vs. toured our clients’ properties, you would see a big difference. Professionals invest more in their properties to attract the best tenants who pay the best rents knowing tenants all want clean and safe.  Investing more includes time and effort in marketing and screening tenants. If you read about tenant nightmare stories in the news, you’ll note the landlords never ran credit checks or a Naborly report on the prospective tenant.

You all know the hoops we must jump through to get a mortgage. It would be advisable to screen tenants similarly, as a bad tenant is a very expensive mistake when you are trusting them with a half a million dollar asset.

If you’re looking to get started in becoming a wealth hacker, someone on the most efficient path to building wealth, let us know.  We offer property tours in each of the top towns around the GTA which upcoming tours in Collingwood.

We have the Wealth Hacker conference on Nov 9th, a master class on the most efficient paths to success in small business, real estate and stock options.  Go to www.wealthhacker.ca for details, discount code: iamawealthhacker 

For those who are very serious about their success, we have my membership group called iWIN, short for the Infinity Wealth Investment Network.  We are a close knit group that meets monthly to share best practices on investing in real estate, staying up on the latest strategies. We meet up quarterly for a mastermind, iWIN style. We do something fun together then we mastermind over a meal. So far this summer we did a Niagara Wine Tour on bike and a separate event on powerboats on a lake up north.  Both were followed by lunch and everyone had an amazing time networking with like minded people and coming away with actionable advice. For details, go to www.infinitywealth.ca 

Ex Financial Planner Now Multifamily Investing East of Toronto, Off Market Deals, Cap Rates and JV Structures with Sarah Coupland

On to this week’s guest, my friend, who is a member of my mastermind group, Sarah Coupland of Tag Properties (www.tagproperties.ca) 

Sarah is a successful, multifamily real estate investor and one of the nicest people you will ever meet. In this interview, she took our virtual meeting from her cottage, afforded to her by her real estate businesses.

Sarah invests mostly where she lives, in Cobourg, Ontario where she owns several small multifamily properties. Sarah shares how she got started and how her boyfriend, now husband, had to help her renovate her house if he wanted to see her (yay free labour!). She shares how she sources properties off market, often buying the properties no one else wants. For the best value-add strategies, some crazy stories of police raiding one of her rental properties, her cap rates and how she structures the financials for joint venture partners – have a listen!

To follow Sarah:

Website: www.tagproperties.ca
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/couplandsarah
Sarah in CREW Magazine: https://www.canadianrealestatemagazine.ca/features/something-from-nothing-232912.aspx

Do you have questions on wealth hacking? The shortest path to financial success or questions on investing in: houses, basement suites, coach houses, syndicated mortgages, private equities, public equities, sandwich leases, lease to own, student rentals, AirBnb, wholesaling, off market deals, house construction.  I’ll admit when I don’t know and will dial a friend for an answer.  

If you have a question, we don’t have any fancy means to receive questions so if you enjoy the show and want to leave a five star review on iTunes, your question will definitely make its way to me and I’ll answer your question on a future episode of this podcast.

I’m also grateful for all your positive comments and fans of this show. It is my view that life would be a bit better for everyone if we all could make and save a bit more money at the end of the month and if you make a lot more then your family and community would benefit even more and nothing would make me happier.  Till next time, my name is Erwin and I am a wealth hacker bringing you the truth about real estate investing for Canadians.

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Hello Wealth Hackers and welcome to another episode of the truth about real estate investing.

You may already know this about me, I’m not the most eloquent or well spoken person. It’s always hard for me to explain what it is I do.

Then yesterday, a gentleman messaged me and told me his story how his family is in debt from his wife losing her job when she was pregnant with their son and how he’s on a mission to learn about investing in real estate. 

His question is, how does he come up with a downpayment for an investment property? 

To many of you, this is a no brainer. Almost everyone I know I using a home equity line of credit, or they’ve refinanced their home for their first down payment or more. After they ran out of equity in their homes for down payments, they either went the joint venture route, partnering with friends or family. Or they waited for the market to do its thing, tenants to pay down mortgages and, voila, more equity to refinance for more down payments and more investment properties.

If this is not an option for you, then invest in yourself and look for opportunities in your current employment to add value. For me personally, I studied sales because that is the easiest way to create value. If you are revenue generating in your business, you are invaluable. Same if you save your company money or you can raise money, hence why you see many company CFO’s as the 2nd highest paid. What also happens is the company’s top sales people make more money than the president does.

In my last job, my boss was a workaholic and a genius, so no way I could fill her shoes. I focused on Sales training and investing in real estate when I was not working my day job. 

On to my unwanted tenant… No, not the one who vandalized my AirBnb house before it became an AirBnb – but skunks!

Yes, the black furred rodents with the white stripe down their back.

My nanny alerted me to seeing five of them in our backyard. They were likely attracted to my vegetable garden and kick ass sweet peppers. I sprinted to the backyard only to see a tail disappear under my shed. I’ve been documenting what I call, Skunk vs DIY Skunk removal. Thank you to all who have sent me home remedies. So far I have filled the space under my shed with water. I have played for the skunks “Old Macdonald Had a Farm” on loop with my old iPhone to annoy the crap out of them, because I know it works on me when taking the kids on road trips. I’ve dusted the area at the opening of their hole with flour to track if they are in there or not, then it immediately rained.

I’ve even gone on to mark the territory, but didn’t record that video.

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Anyways, the video is all there on my instagram @erwinszeto for you to laugh at me.

Yes, I know I should just hire a pest relocation professional, and I would for any of my tenants, but this is my home and as of right now it gets the least $$ allocated to it because it’s not an asset! It’s a liability!! All you fellow, wealth hacking, frugal investors know what I’m talking about.

Haste & Hustle: Making Entrepreneurship Accessible Via Events and Living Like a Rock Star w/ Shauna Arnott

On to this week’s guest!!

She is not a real estate investor yet, but she really wants to be, so please don’t hate on her or my podcast. She has many dynamo investors as best friends, such as guests of this show Ian Szabo and Dion Beg, and maybe one day guest Brian Scrone, who is a what I call a centurian investor, having owned over 100 investment properties in Florida.  

Why I brought Shauna on this show is because she is one of the most fascinating people I’ve ever met. It is my belief that life is all about experiences, and Shauna at whatever her age she is, has 10X the life experiences of most.

One week she’s having lunch and planning a women’s conference with the Dutchess of York, the next week she flies to California for a meeting and charity concert with Maclemore, then it’s off to India for another major event planning session. Shauna has hosted Gary V in front of 3,000 in Toronto, she’s hosting Sir Richard Branson in the next 12 months, and expanding her events to Californation. But even more crazy, Shauna is going to 10X as she plans my event to host Grant Cardone! 🙂

Funny enough, we investors all hustle and grind so we may one day travel more. Shauna’s Haste and Hustle is so she can one day afford a down payment on an investment property and here is her story.

To follow up Shauna:

Website: https://www.hasteandhustle.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hasteandhustle
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/hasteandhustlers/

Do you have questions on wealth hacking? The shortest path to financial success or questions on investing in: houses, basement suites, coach houses, syndicated mortgages, private equities, public equities, sandwich leases, lease to own, student rentals, AirBnb, wholesaling, off market deals, house construction.  I’ll admit when I don’t know and will dial a friend for an answer.  

If you have a question, we don’t have any fancy means to receive questions so if you enjoy the show and want to leave a five star review on iTunes, your question will definitely make its way to me and I’ll answer your question on a future episode of this podcast.

I’m also grateful for all your positive comments and fans of this show. It is my view that life would be a bit better for everyone if we all could make and save a bit more money at the end of the month and if you make a lot more then your family and community would benefit even more and nothing would make me happier.  Till next time, my name is Erwin and I am a wealth hacker bringing you the truth about real estate investing for Canadians.

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Happy Canada Day and hope you had a great long weekend as the summer kicks off!!

Are your summer BBQ’s like mine? We had a bunch of friends and family over Sunday and Monday and the conversation was about the Leafs, Raptors, and of course real estate, but it wasn’t initiated by me!! It seems more and more real estate is becoming a more and more popular asset class. Note these are friends and family, not from my real estate world, but what surprised me was how bullish everyone was thinking. The worst from the spring of 2017 Housing Fairness Plan correction is past us and my friends and family are all looking to increase their real estate for either where they live or for investment.

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Scenes from our backyard combo birthday for our youngest and Canada Day. I can’t wait for my retirement to just do this all the time and I selfishly want everyone else to retire fast and rich so we can all hang out and do awesome stuff together.

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I’m hoping it’s the right decision. My wife and I are having one ugly property renovated and we recently had one of our existing rental houses switch to AirBnb. I’ll detail some of our own investing in a separate episode, or else this one will be a really long one.

On a sad note, as the child of Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong, the civil unrest and protests back home are the worst it’s been from my recollection. Yet another reminder how grateful my family is to live in the greatest country in the world. Canada is not perfect by any means, but look at our freedoms, low crime, opportunity, clean environment and quality education system. It’s good to call this place home and to own property here. Is it any surprise Canada remains a top destination for immigration?? Immigration to Canada looks to stay strong. If you have developer friends like I do, developing is getting more restrictive and more expensive, which puts upward pressure on housing prices.

Owning property or more appropriately, positive cash flow income properties whichever way your prefer: Airbnb, basement suited houses, apartment buildings, developing land, student rentals.  It’s all great and area dependent. For the Wealth Hacker, I can’t recommend enough that you learn about each strategy to have the skills and knowledge to make a decision. For example, one investor I know switched up his strategy from student rental to AirBnb back to student rental as the service levels required for AirBnb proved to be too much for this investor.  

Wealth Hacking update on my part, I am committed to learn how to sell stock options. I’ve ignored my friend Omar Khan for too long, who’s been encouraging me to learn and implement the strategy he’s used for over ten years to earn himself six figures selling stock options on blue chip stocks that pay dividends. This isn’t a get rich quick thing and Omar is going to show me how, after he’s already taught over 50 of his friends how to, including my electrician. Omar and I have the same electrician, he re-wired the upstairs of my house that I’m AirBnb’ing. Our electrician has made around six figures in the last 18 months using this little known strategy. There are books on this strategy e.g. “Get Rich With Options” by Lee Lowell, but no different than any subject you plan on mastering, some hands on learning with ongoing coaching from an expert goes a long way.

Omar is our keynote speaker at our next iWIN members’ meeting as a warm up for the big stage at iWIN’s Wealth Hacker Conference on Nov 9th, for which you can get your tickets at wealthhacker.ca.  This is an all day event bringing together all the greatest wealth hackers I know who have taken the shortest path to financial success: investing in real estate with other people’s money for 100+ properties, Airbnb, stock options with Omar, making money like the bank, start a small business from zero to $100,000 and from $100,000 to $500,000.

Everything I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial and investor journey, the best subject matter experts, the best lessons from my own investing and business building. We are bringing you all my bests for one day, November 9th, including the most in demand business trainer in the world in Grant Cardone in Toronto. The networking alone is worth the price of admission. My friend Susan White did multiple joint venture real estate deals from people she met in the VIP at a similar event. It was an event similar to the Wealth Hacker Conference that was the catalyst for myself to go from amateur to professional Wealth Hacker. This will arm you with the tools to take a shorter and faster path to financial freedom. Tickets at WealthHacker.ca 

7-8 Figure Commercial Developments with Shane Melanson

On to this week’s guest!

For those with sights on bigger projects, Shane Melanson does exactly that! Shane started like many investors do with single family homes, did a few flips, progressed to commercial real estate including trailer parks, developing industrial condos, and retail plazas.

Other than tackling these very large and complex 7-8 figure projects, we discuss Shane’s path to becoming a commercial expert. He’s here to share what triggered his investing, his career path before his first commercial investment, and the mentorship he received along the way. 

Also fascinating is how Shane structures joint venture investments with these large-scale, capital-intensive projects and % splits via general partner and limited partnerships. Have a listen!

To connect with Shane:

Website: http://shanemelanson.com
Podcast (iTunes): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-investing-advantage-podcast/id1465519313
Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/shane-melanson/the-investing-advantage?refid=asa
Shane’s book: https://www.clubsyndication.com/book1

If you enjoyed the show and would like to learn more about investing in real estate then you do not want to miss my Top 10 Tips On Real Estate. It’s FREE to Download!!

I’ve interviewed many of the leading authorities in real estate, including Best Selling Authors like Julie Broad, Don R Campbell, Russell Westcott, and Tom Karadza. My super star investors include folks who acquire two properties per month or have transacted on over 100 properties. I have learned a thing or two in my own investing and distilled it down to 10, you-can-not-ignore, tips if you want to be a successful investor.

To download the report go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/book

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Congratulations Toronto and Canada, we are the champions!! We did it!!

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🎉Party on the Gardiner on our way to the party 🦖🦖. Our first stop was in China town for Oysters because we were hungry, then to a private after party for more 🍸🍺🍻refreshments then finally to Dundas Square to party like it’s been 26 years since we won a 🏆🏆🏆. . 📈Started from the bottom now we’re here. . Parade is over, best fans on the planet and now back to the grind of bringing 🔟❌ and @grantcardone to 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦. . 🎥 @charleswah

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History was made, so I may have taken more liberties than I normally do in my conservative, boring life. I like boring. I like being at home and going to bed early, and I’m glad life can finally get back to normal with less late nights and stress replaced by more family time, more sleep, more martials arts and Crossfit. Life isn’t always boring though, I’m getting a new car next week, my challenge to my mastermind group was to CN Tower Edgewalk (that’s walking around the outside of CN Tower at 1,168 feet high or 116 storeys). Nothing beats a low risk thrill for team building, followed by a mastermind lunch in the 360 Restaurant for blue sky dreaming ideas of wealth hacking.

Speaking of Wealth Hacking, while I scroll through the pictures on my phone from the last week, its been busy:

• • Our AirBnb is rocking – a single family home we would normally rent for $2,000/mo has booked $4,600 on AirBnb for June only. We are 77% booked, so we can definitely break $5,000. I’m preparing a presentation right now actually, for iWIN members tomorrow night, to share how we arrived at this point with all the automation, apps, technology, hardware etc… as I didn’t lift a finger.

• • Cherry and I attend an Entrepreneur Bootcamp for two whole days and I have many takeaways around apps, scheduling, and scaling businesses

• • Sadly, I missed a few hours of the 2nd day, as we were out late the night before celebrating history as our Toronto Raptors won the championship. We sent a video of apology to our hosts as we were cheers-ing tequila shots. They understand. This is history and life is all about experiences. We didn’t get in till the sun was coming up and I won’t be doing that again for a while.

• • Saturday was another loaded day, as the kids had the day off from Chinese School and I was teaching my oldest to ride a bigger bike.  It’s really interesting to practice influence skills on a five year old. She resisted and wanted her old bike but she’s a champ and now only wants her new bike.

• • From there it was my clients’ open house of their new build, two semi detached houses, each with basement apartments. I’ll have Steve Ford, one of the investors on this project, on this podcast shortly to explain the ins and outs of new construction. He’s a project manager for a major builder and an expert in construction. As always, we will bring you experts on this show. There is nothing wrong with just starting out, but those starting out should not be offering coaching services. Just saying.
  • For some background on these new builds, my clients bought two houses: one a single family, the other a duplex, severed the backyards and built two more houses, each with a basement suite. Each new build is rented for $3,400 plus utilities and over $10,000 in rent for these now-seven units. This is next level investing, so stay tuned for Steve Ford!

This episode is brought to you by iWIN’s Wealth Hacker Conference:

On November 9th, 2019 at the Toronto Congress Center, we will be sharing the best secrets of the rich including:

• • 10X mindset

• • Six figure income, 15 mins per day, options trading from your phone

• • Earning income like the bank passively, better returns and more stable than the stock market by private lending

• • Investing in real estate: apartment buildings, raising capital, AirBnb, student rentals, accessory apartments, land development

• And so much more as we confirm more Wealth Hacker experts who do, no theory BS

Tickets are on sale now at: www.wealthhacker.ca and don’t delay, prices are going up and if you want VIP, we only have 100 of them and they will sell out first.

www.wealthhacker.ca if you’re interested in the best side hustle and income replacement opportunities.

November 9th we have the rich and successful sharing their secrets on how they became rich and successful. You don’t want to miss this event.

Police Officer Dave Knight Says You Have The Right, No, A Duty To Build Your Wealth

On to this week’s show!

Officer Dave Knight is a friend, an investor, client of ours, fellow podcaster of the First Responder Wealth Network spreading the word how even for those with a pension, people need more. Especially for those who risk their personal safety everyday to protect all of us.

Dave is also a big fan and student of Grant Cardone, having taken some of his masterminds and apartment building investing mastery classes, delivered by Grant himself. Dave also has insights into Grant’s strategy and lessons as to what goes into his over $1 billion dollar assets under management portfolio. This was totally not what I expected.

Have a listen, buy a timmies for a first responder when you see them in line, and I proudly give you officer Dave Knight.

To connect with Dave:

Web & ebook: https://www.911wealthnetwork.com/freebook
Email Address: info@911wealthnetwork.com

If you enjoyed the show and would like to learn more about investing in real estate then you do not want to miss my Top 10 Tips On Real Estate. It’s FREE to Download!!

I’ve interviewed many of the leading authorities in real estate, including Best Selling Authors like Julie Broad, Don R Campbell, Russell Westcott, and Tom Karadza. My super star investors include folks who acquire two properties per month or have transacted on over 100 properties. I have learned a thing or two in my own investing and distilled it down to 10, you-can-not-ignore, tips if you want to be a successful investor.

To download the report go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/book

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Hello wealth hacker nation!

As our regulars know, I converted one of my single family homes from being rented to students to AirBnb after an awful experience with one tenant and then dealing with the pro-tenant, Landlord Tenant Board Tribunal.

Good friends of mine who have much experience with short term rentals told me how great the tenant profile is vs. long term tenants. Guests of short term rentals, or STR’s for short, are happy because they are on vacation and they have budget, otherwise they wouldn’t be taking vacation. My property is inspected more frequently, as my cleaners are there every week to inspect for maintenance and damage issues. Plus damages are paid for by the guest via their damage deposit vs. a long term rental landlord has to collect themselves, it comes out of pocket, possibly goes to small claims court, which can put the tenant into collections, and you’ll possibly not get paid, etc…

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🥇First look at our post renovated and furnished new Airbnb. Honestly, it was pretty easy when you have a great team. Just hard on the pocket book to get to this point 🤣. Thank you to my wife Cherry Chan who lets me experiment and writes the cheques, furnishing by Jacqueline Paradisi, my PM Bryan Kirow. My Realtor: me 🤣 couldn’t have done it without my Realtor. My mastermind friends Tasha Monaghan and Michelle Gauthier who convinced me STRs are the way to go. No auto accept customers right Michelle 😉 Hopefully the PGA Canadian Championship allows us to charge some stupid rents to recoup some of these costs!! 🙏🙏🙏

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So is the grass greener on the other side? We will see, but so far in less than 72 hours we have $3,500 expected revenue for the month of June. Note, that’s inclusive of HST. Our first guests arrived yesterday and we had our first complaint already, LOL. Our grass is too long, as the grass growing conditions have been perfect and as a student rental, we had the house mowed every two weeks.

Note, I raised the rent for this weekend from $250/night to $850/night because the Canadian Golf Championship is in town, so the rent is high but the lesson is to be aware of your market!! Many of my friends with STR’s did not adjust their rents as they weren’t aware of this major tourist event. Fun, useless fact of the day, my guests who booked golf week are from Florida.

Also to note – the upfront investment is significant for time and capital to prepare a house for short-term renting, but I outsourced it all from renovations, cleaners, Property Management, and furnishing the house. I’ll be sharing how we did things from beginning to end at a future iWIN members meeting, plus all the technology involved to make the process completely automated.

This episode is sponsored by our Wealth Hacker Conference on November 9th, and we just announced is our venue: the Toronto Congress Center – North Building next to Pearson Airport in Toronto. We also announced Pierre Paul Turgeon as one of our many Wealth Hacking Speakers. Pierre Paul is an old friend, the best teacher of apartment building investing, and he grew his own portfolio from zero to 22 million in only a few years.  He walks the walk and talks the talk and he’s a good person as he donated several of his apartments to those who lost their homes in the Fort McMurray Fires in Alberta just a few years ago.

Our keynote speaker is none other than New York Times Best Selling Author and leader of the 10X movement, owner of Cardone Capital with over $1 billion in real estate under management, our #1 pick and ultimate Wealth Hacker, Grant Cardone.

To register go to www.wealthhacker.ca, the sooner you register the better the tickets and better the prices, so please don’t delay. Like many iWIN events, this one will sell out too.

Ask Erwin Anything EP1 with Joel Arndt

On to this week’s guest who is less experienced to investing. This all started when I posted on Facebook that we can make any investor who is ready and willing successful, as we have 15 millionaire clients who we directly assisted with their investments. They seriously come from all walks of life. I’ll detail in a future episode some interesting statistics and observations of these millionaires.

Anyway, Joel Arndt sent me a direct message, or as the young people call them, DM’s. He asked if my statement was true and if he could ask me some questions. He shared his back story. Joel actually goes to Church with one of our super star clients and past guest of this show, Evelyn, and though they knew each other they have taken completely different paths.

I asked Joel if we could record our Ask Erwin Anything session to share, as I know we have many young listeners and folks looking to switch careers or learn about investing for a side hustle. He agreed, and here is the interview.

I give you, Joel Arndt.

If you enjoyed the show and would like to learn more about investing in real estate then you do not want to miss my Top 10 Tips On Real Estate. It’s FREE to Download!!

I’ve interviewed many of the leading authorities in real estate, including Best Selling Authors like Julie Broad, Don R Campbell, Russell Westcott, and Tom Karadza. My super star investors include folks who acquire two properties per month or have transacted on over 100 properties. I have learned a thing or two in my own investing and distilled it down to 10, you-can-not-ignore, tips if you want to be a successful investor.

To download the report go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/book

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Did you hear about the major happenings this week?  The Toronto Raptors won back to back home games in the NBA Playoffs vs. the Goliath like Milwaukee Bucks.  My wife got us tickets and took me out for date night and it was awesome.

In other big awesome news, I was finally allowed to share our big fat secret I’ve been dying to share for the last three weeks.  That’s when we signed our keynote speaker for Nov 9th’s iWIN Wealth Hacker Conference. He is none other than New York Times Best Seller, the man who sells out stadiums of over 30,000, the top sales trainer and real estate investor whose company owns over 1 billion dollars worth of real estate, Mr 10X himself, Grant Cardone.

Which brings us to this month’s sponsor of the show: iWIN’s Wealth Hacker Conference.

This all started with me putting on a free training event. I told Cherry and she wasn’t impressed. Free stuff is not appreciated nor valued. As the saying goes, “those who pay, pay attention.”

Next iteration was a 30 person event in a library or something, but then we applied 10X thinking. How about a 200+ person paid event, and I’ll reach out to some of my expert friends.

Then we had an idea to hire a celebrity keynote speaker, someone from my favourite CBC business reality show. Around this time, we hired an event planner. Then our thinking grew another 10X. Together we did some blue sky brainstorming. Who is the most in demand speaker in the world of entrepreneurship?

And we got him. Uncle G, Mr 10X, Grant Cardone is our keynote speaker for iWIN’s Wealth Hacker Conference this November 9th in Toronto.

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When @grantcardone Management shares your event 🙏🙏🙏🔥🔥🔥🔟❌. Thank you @stevespray !!! . November 9th, we host Uncle G. . www.wealthhacker.ca to register.

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Our objective for the attendees is for them to walk away knowing they can take control of their financial future, and we will give them the tools to become a wealth hacker: investors who can profit and thrive in any market, and not just in real estate. We will have experts share about blockchain/cryptocurrency, cannabis and options trading as well.

As always, with iIWN events, the networking alone will be worth the price of admission.

We are still working out details for the event, including venue and ticket prices, but we have opened a waitlist at www.wealthhacker.ca. Friends on the waitlist will have first dibs on tickets at early bird pricing, including VIP tickets for the best seats and the opportunity to meet my friend Grant and have your picture taken with him.

Again that’s www.wealthhacker.ca to register for access to early bird pricing and availability of tickets before the public, plus we will announce speakers to the waitlist first.

Active Investing Vs Pre-Construction Investing, Doubling Investments Before Closing with Todor Yordanov

On to this week’s guest, my old friend Todor Yordanov, he’s the first REIN member I ever met.

I first met Todor at a meetup at a Tim Horton’s back in 2008, before anyone knew what a meetup was. This was back in day when email distribution lists were how we communicated. A bunch of Hamilton investors organizing and communicating over an email list of like 50 people.

When I met Todor, he was investing in condos: specifically townhouse condos in Hamilton, because they suit this 8-12% rule: the annual rent had to be 8-12% of the purchase price plus improvements. Todor wasn’t the only one following this strategy, as this was what we were taught. These houses cash flowed, but in hindsight, the tenant profile was not a good one and the condo fees were inflating at about 15% per year. The truth about real estate is that when condo fees go up out of control, it negatively affects affordability and in turn, the resale price.

Anyway, Todor next invested in student rentals, but now his focus is on condos in Toronto. Especially condos known as pre-construction, meaning builders selling apartments in a high rise building before they are built. The strategy works for Todor as it suits his lifestyle and passive investment preference.

To connect with Todor:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/todor.yordanov.real.estate/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/todoryordanov/

If you enjoyed the show and would like to learn more about investing in real estate then you do not want to miss my Top 10 Tips On Real Estate. It’s FREE to Download!!

I’ve interviewed many of the leading authorities in real estate, including Best Selling Authors like Julie Broad, Don R Campbell, Russell Westcott, and Tom Karadza. My super star investors include folks who acquire two properties per month or have transacted on over 100 properties. I have learned a thing or two in my own investing and distilled it down to 10, you-can-not-ignore, tips if you want to be a successful investor.

To download the report go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/book

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

How is your perspective on life?

I generally prefer to keep things light on this show, but I’m going to take some liberties this week and stray from the normal.

A very good friend was participating in a charity 50km bike ride on Sunday and his friend suddenly passed while on the ride, likely due to heart attack. My friend was the last person to see him alive and he’s obviously upset by this.

In times like these, life is put into perspective. I question what I’m doing all the time and today I ask, is what I’m doing right now what I want to be doing? Do I spend enough time with the people I care about? How do I improve how I spend my time? I know for you listeners who are commuting while you listen, many would like to commute a little less. My commute was over an hour each way on a train to work downtown and it drove me nuts every evening when all I wanted to do was get home.  

Please do make sure you design a life you want and don’t wait for something terrible to happen to get started, like Tom Sullivan shared on his show. He didn’t get started building his retirement fund of ten investment properties until he got cancer. Our award winning joint venturer of the year client, Justin Chung, didn’t start building his empire until his dad was really sick.

If you were to pass today, is your family set up in a position to continue without you financially? I had a client pass just two years ago, leaving behind his wife and two kids, the elder of which just graduated university with plans to go to Dentistry school. When I first learned of his passing (now don’t judge me, I have a personality of a critical thinker), my first thought was, “thank God they have real estate.” Two investment properties that had appreciated significantly, over six figures of equity each, and return cash flow over $1,000 each house, each month.  It’s not an enormous sum of money, but those are quality assets that give the family one less thing to worry about as they attract great tenants and the rents keep going up. Give it another five to ten years and this widow will be a real estate millionaire and will be better off than most widows.

What is the lesson?  I ask myself that question every time something bad happens. In times of sudden passing like a heart attack, I ask myself if I lead a lifestyle conducive to someone living a long and healthy life. To share in my learnings from being the son of a doctor and the patient of a high performance Naturopath, I limit my salt and sugar intake, I don’t eat much fast or processed food, I have 4 or 5 workouts planned this week and I sweat a lot in those workouts. My workouts are so hard, I have doubts every time if I can finish.  I’m lucky as I’ve found exercise that I enjoy doing for fun in Brazillian Jiu Jitsu and Crossfit. I get plenty of sleep most nights.

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It’s looking like a four workout kinda week plus a round of golf (golf is not working out). This is the fourth and last set of 215 lbs x 8.. . We are redefining dad bod! my buddy Mike D @mike.desormeaux especially as a dad of two. He can bench press what I squat 🤣 . Wealth is nothing without health. Get out there and be active. Be awesome

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I’ll also take a moment to constructively criticize the celebration and acceptance of dad bod, how being overweight is socially acceptable.  It is socially acceptable, no one is judging, I’ll just counter with a question, “Is the lifestyle and diet that leads to being overweight the one that provides one with high energy to conquer the day’s work and workouts? Does having a dad bod predict a long and healthy life?” You all know the answer. I’m no health or nutrition expert, so I’ll leave it there. I do have the occasional glass of wine or dessert, but my body fat % is well under 10%, I have visible abs and have for over four years. I am 40 years old. This is my dad bod and this will be my kids’ context for a lifestyle to follow.

Speaking of stuff I’m no expert at, as a critical review of this show informed me, and I quote: “Erwin does not know the nuances of RESP’s”, and it’s true, I don’t. I chase enough shiny stuff already as I’m preparing to start option trading in the near future and I’m car shopping for a new BMW today.  That’s not the important work I do… the work I pride myself on is helping everyday, local investors become millionaires and multi millionaires and learning from multi-multi millionaires. Fun fact for the day is none of them told me RESP’s was the key to their success.

Quick side note: if you have criticisms or there is a gap in wealth building knowledge you would like filled by an expert, please drop me an email.  I have an extensive network of the best of the best experts who I can request a favour to have on the show.

Financial Planning Wealth Hacker Style with Kathleen van den Berg, MBA, CFP, CLU

Back to the show 🙂 To be clear, my financial position and goals are different than most. I’m looking for 30% returns from my investments. My overriding principle is the investment you do is better than the investment you don’t. If I never lost 40-60% of my stock portfolio during the last major recession, I would never have given my full focus to real estate and the money I lost in stocks is pennies compared to the money I’ve made as a real estate investor.

Anyways, enough from me.

As someone not qualified to speak to RESP’s and retirement planning, I had my friend Kathleen van den Berg come on the show, who has a lot of letters behind her name and is qualified. The Truth About Real Estate Investing show continues to bring you experts in investing.

Kathleen has her Masters in Business Administration, her CFP – Certified Financial Planner and CLU – Chartered Life Underwriter, the Canadian wealth transfer and estate planning designation. She also owns 10 investment real estate properties.

Kathleen is here to explain the three buckets of assets everyone needs and which order to fill them, and has even more controversial opinions to share on RESP’s, LOL. Note that Kathleen does fee-based financial planning and is one of the rare CFP’s to do so, to ensure she can provide you unbiased financial advice unlike mutual fund sales people, so we are really lucky to have Kathleen on the show so we may all learn.

If you are already on my email list, you will receive my type notes from the interview. If you would like to receive my personal notes from interviewing guests, simply go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca and enter your name and email on the right.

Without further ado, I give you Kathleen van den Berg, MBA, CFP, CLU and RESP expert. 😉

To follow up with Kathleen:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DurhamMoneyMatters/
Web: http://www.kavwealthstrategies.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-van-den-berg-mba-cfp-clu-7b20b258/

If you enjoyed the show and would like to learn more about investing in real estate then you do not want to miss my Top 10 Tips On Real Estate. It’s FREE to Download!!

I’ve interviewed many of the leading authorities in real estate, including Best Selling Authors like Julie Broad, Don R Campbell, Russell Westcott, and Tom Karadza. My super star investors include folks who acquire two properties per month or have transacted on over 100 properties. I have learned a thing or two in my own investing and distilled it down to 10, you-can-not-ignore, tips if you want to be a successful investor.

To download the report go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/book

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

How goes your balancing act with life, work, investing and charity?

Last week, we definitely pushed our limits to the edge. My wife and I are parents to a three and five year old, Cherry is in her final stretch for tax season doing Accounting for over 100 local real estate investors, our charity (for which Cherry is VP of Finance and I am President) had one of our three major events this past weekend, fulfilling the wish lists of 32 of Hamilton’s poorest families.

Thank you to all our donors and volunteers.  If you see my post on Instagram, you’ll see Batman and Thor, God of Thunder, were in attendance to spread some cheer.

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Another successful Easter edition of the @hamiltonbasketbrigade. We have operating Easter, Thanksgiving, and Xmas since 2014. This day we fulfilled the wishes of over 150 of the poorest moms, dads and kids in #hamont . We may not be able to solve poverty but we will provide relief with durable goods that last beyond a meal. . Already in the plans is to buy in bulk winter clothing and boots for this coming Thanksgiving to 28 families in order to make our budget go even further. . Together, we will be the change we want to see in the world. @kmckone @liveandbreatherealestate @jemaggs @burlingtonbatman @thorandcandy

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On top of all of that, we closed on our newest investment property on Thursday, and it’s one of the worst closings I’ve ever seen. Mostly our own fault, and the general difficulty of the lending market and lots of learning lessons.

The biggest lesson here is to start your financing process earlier than we did. Most of you are on the ball, as you have your financing in order before conditions are lifted. We did not have a financing condition, so we let that deadline slip a bit too far. I do, however, want to thank Butler Mortgages, specifically Dave and Michelle, as they bore the brunt of our challenges, but got it done.

Also, I’d like to thank Crystal at CAP Law for getting our deal closed and doing an excellent job coordinating with the sellers’ lawyers.

Real estate investing can be all things: easy, challenging, fun, challenging, rewarding, challenging – yet worth it.

Tonight is game 7 of my hockey team, the Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Boston. It’s also my favourite team, the Toronto Raptors, game 5 of their playoff series. But guess what I’ll be doing? I’ll be in Hamilton with a wet/dry shop vacuum to get the water out of the basement at our newest property.

This is one of the realities of investing, the best deals are often houses with challenges. This one, the basement is known to leak, but it’s a very easy fix by rerouting the downspout away from the foundation. I’ve already done that, but now I need to get the rain water out of the basement to prevent mold growth in our unfinished basement. I’ve always wanted to own a shop vacuum anyways, and I’ll be home in time to watch the remain two thirds of the game.

If you don’t like doing any work on your properties that’s totally OK. I was just way too slow in booking my handyman to do this job and, again, I’ve always wanted a shop vacuum. 🙂

Ten Houses, Financial Peace, in Only Eight Years with Evelyn Lamarsh

Speaking of investing being challenging and worth it, that brings us to this week’s guest Evelyn Lamarsh, our client since she was 26 years old when we met in 2011. Fast forward to today, she is one of those few investors with 10 properties and living in financial peace.

Evelyn and husband Mike are living the dream. Evelyn has her dream job, Mike retired from his job in his early 30’s, they have two young children they get to spend lots of time with, and they just bought a 30 foot boat to spend family time on and entertain friends and family. A boat paid for by their investments.

Financial peace and living the dream are indeed possible with some early hustle as explained by our client and more importantly friend, Evelyn Lamarsh.

To follow up with Evelyn:

You will find Evelyn at iWIN events and;

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evelyn.difrancesco

If you enjoyed the show and would like to learn more about investing in real estate then you do not want to miss my Top 10 Tips On Real Estate. It’s FREE to Download!!

I’ve interviewed many of the leading authorities in real estate, including Best Selling Authors like Julie Broad, Don R Campbell, Russell Westcott, and Tom Karadza. My super star investors include folks who acquire two properties per month or have transacted on over 100 properties. I have learned a thing or two in my own investing and distilled it down to 10, you-can-not-ignore, tips if you want to be a successful investor.

To download the report go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/book

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/
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Are you ever really sure you know what you’re doing?

I regularly check in with our investment decisions and, more importantly, what my wife and I are doing as parents. No different than investing, a custom approach is best and kids with their personalities are no different.

Admittedly, I’ve taught my kids some controversial things. Today is international bully awareness day, so I thought I would share. My son enjoys hitting and wrestling, my older daughter not so much. So, I’ve told her to tell him to stop and, if he doesn’t, walk away. If he keeps pestering you, then hit him back, just not in the face.

I know many don’t believe in violence, but from everything I’ve read on bullying and from my experience, there are people out there who don’t understand words. So I view this as a learning experience under the safety of our home. My daughter learns to stand up to bullies and my son learns that unacceptable behaviour will result in being hit by the victim.

Even though their fighting drives me bonkers, to see how they are best friends makes it all worth it. Here they are, my daughter riding my son’s bike, because she got tired of riding her scooter. My son is copying me, how I was pushing my daughter when teaching her to ride without training wheels.

My family is my motivation to work hard to afford more financial freedom and financial peace. Financial peace is a term I first heard from this week’s guest, who is mega successful thanks to his TV show, The Everyday Investor. He has peace, as he does very little other work, other than starting his own church. He has peace, as he called his phone company to remove the texting function from his phone and he deleted all of his social media.

Financial Peace with Rav Toor

Rav was a Realtor and owned his own brokerage, plus several investment properties, but the lifestyle of hustle and the demanding schedule did not suit him. So he stopped being a broker and sold all his investment properties. Instead, Rav focuses on producing his show and teaching others how to invest passively in land developments. However, by far the majority of his time is spent with his wife and two teenagers. Financial Peace indeed, as Rav is rich, yet his favourite store is Old Navy and the only car they own is not fancy and over ten years old.

Here I am as a guest on Rav’s Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzRuyalspiY

If you’re interested in learning more about investing in real estate, we have upcoming Street Smart tours of two of the elite 8 towns: Brantford and Barrie.

Saturday morning of April 27th, we have the former Economic Development Officer of Brantford leading our tour of potential investment properties. One property will be ideal for the recreational investor and another for more intermediate to advanced. The tour will be followed by a mastermind lunch with fellow local investors, including experts from the iWIN community.

To get your tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/iwin-april-27-brantford-street-smart-tour-tickets-59267081436

Save the date: Saturday morning of May 18th, same idea for Barrie: a street smart tour led by award winning Realtor and investor of 10+ properties, John Beddome. He was a guest on this podcast just two weeks ago, and has been investing in Barrie since 2007.  John will be hosting a tour of properties, followed by a mastermind lunch with fellow local investors, including experts from the iWIN community.

Save the date for now and stay tuned for how to buy tickets which will be in the show notes at the https://www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca, or get on the email list so you are emailed when new episodes are released and informed when we host events.

To follow Rav, again he doesn’t have social media:

Everyday Investor with Rav Toor: https://everydayinvestor.com/
Simple Church: https://simplechurch.ca/

If you enjoyed the show and would like to learn more about investing in real estate then you do not want to miss my Top 10 Tips On Real Estate. It’s FREE to Download!!

I’ve interviewed many of the leading authorities in real estate, including Best Selling Authors like Julie Broad, Don R Campbell, Russell Westcott, and Tom Karadza. My super star investors include folks who acquire two properties per month or have transacted on over 100 properties. I have learned a thing or two in my own investing and distilled it down to 10, you-can-not-ignore, tips if you want to be a successful investor.

To download the report go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/book

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/
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Is it weird to work on your birthday?

I kind of enjoy working, and our events allow me to see our clients and friends in person. This past Saturday, our team hosted 50+ investor on the iWIN Flip Tour in Hamilton. Our friend, client and iWIN member, Manny Cabral, is in the middle of flipping two properties so we could get the inside view. Literally, as some walls were not just closed, and Manny explained how the deal went down and planned renovations to maximize returns. Both houses were bought off-market, but will be sold on the market via our top Real Estate Agent team who has been working with investors for last four consecutive years.

One of the key factors of a successful flip is to purchase the property at a price below what it would sell for on the market. Often times the property is so unmarketable, and sometimes dangerous, that some owners prefer to sell off market. When selling a fully renovated, turn key property, the best practice in my experience is to sell it on market. Those who buy off market want a discount. If you’re looking to sell and maximize sale price, then you want to market the property to as many buyers are possible to be in a position of strength when negotiating, as our client and iWIN member Manny Cabral is doing when his flips are done renovating.  

As I’ve mentioned on this show, the market is often irrational in how it behaves. I once had two offers on one of my listings, one was our offer, at asking with conditions; the second was $80,000 higher without conditions. If the property was not listed, I would not have received that 2nd offer for $80,000 more. But do know that communication and positioning had to be executed perfectly to generate that crazy aggressive 2nd offer.

As is goes with my networking group, the Infinity Wealth Investment Network (iWIN for short), we will continue to teach about flipping and off market deals and wholesaling, along with our full suite of investment hacker strategies. Our guest speakers last Thursday, Ryan Carr and Susan White, have done it all: tiny houses, vertical splits, horizontal splits, storage rentals, rent to own. They know and have done it all, they are investment hackers which enables them to maximize returns on any given property.

Why is that important? Sometimes, a great deal will come across your desk and the amateur might think, “This is a great buy and hold” or worse, “I’ll pass”. Whereas an investment hacker would look at the same property and think, “This would be a great property for a coach house addition for short-term furnished rental to someone waiting for the insurance claim to come in and rebuild their home and we can 3x the rents of a single family buy and hold.”

Which investor do you think will come out of the next recession in the best shape?

Such is why we will continue to teach the latest and greatest at iWIN events:

As for our upcoming event:

April 13: [iWIN All Day Meeting] in Partnership with Russell Westcott: 7 Steps to Raise $100K+ Real Estate Raising Capital Academy-LIVE

VENUE – Sheridan College Conference Centre – we’re back!!

• • For iWIN members, this is included in your Membership. Tickets are available to purchase for non-members as this is a special event. Members, not sure if you’re registered? Email maria@mrhamilton.ca !

• • Russell Westcott, best selling author, expert instructor on the subject of raising capital for real estate investors is back to take an all day deeper dive on the subject of joint venturing where YOU the real estate expert will learn the expert secrets to attract capital partners for your real estate co ventures.

• • Getting mortgages is tougher than ever, the ability to raise capital for any business or investment is key to continuing the growth of your portfolio.
  • If you have a friend who’d like to attend, early bird pricing ends April 5th: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/7-steps-to-raise-100k-real-estate-raising-capital-academy-live-tickets-58641284661

How to Invest In Barrie Easily And With Stable Cash Flow with John Beddome

On to this week’s guest!!

Sadly, the truth is there are few people I like in the real estate industry and even fewer in the real estate investment industry.  John Beddome is not only of the good ones, he’s one of the great ones.

John is a licensed real estate professional, he listens to what his clients want and gets them exactly that. The job is to guide investors as best as possible with the highest possible return on time and investment, and John delivers exactly that.

When I was checking John’s references (I check references for guests of the show 🙂 I was informed this client was showed seven properties by John, and the investor bought five of them because John listened and found them exactly what they wanted.

John is also an investor, a top 10% investor, as one of the few who achieve double digit investment properties at 12, having started in 2007.  Even more important is what a good man, husband and father he is, but I won’t spoil it for you here, but around the midpoint of the interview he had me choked up.

Finally, John is an original member of iWIN and member of the League of Extraordinary Real Estate Professionals that I personally endorse.  After you have a listen, you will understand how John qualifies.

Without further ado, John Beddome

To reach out to John:

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/beddome
Web:http://investedinyou.ca/

If you enjoyed the show and would like to learn more about investing in real estate then you do not want to miss my Top 10 Tips On Real Estate. It’s FREE to Download!!

I’ve interviewed many of the leading authorities in real estate, including Best Selling Authors like Julie Broad, Don R Campbell, Russell Westcott, and Tom Karadza. My super star investors include folks who acquire two properties per month or have transacted on over 100 properties. I have learned a thing or two in my own investing and distilled it down to 10, you-can-not-ignore, tips if you want to be a successful investor.

To download the report go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/book

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/
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What can I say? As any of you regular listeners know, I’m far from normal… but you know what I’ve learnt about spending time around successful people?  We’re all sort of crazy.

Anyway, Cherry had a glass of wine, a shot of tequila, loosened up, and felt like asking me whatever she wanted.

If you still trust me afterwards to help you build your wealth through real estate, I’ll be at the next monthly #iWIN meeting on March 28th.

At our last event, we had two of the nicest people in Stuart and Denise MacPherson come all the way from Ottawa to share how to raise money with RSP’s. We also had master of raising capital, Russell Westcott, in the house answering your toughest questions on the subject.

Russell walks the walk too, having raised 7 figures just last week. That’s capital, not mortgage money, as some people on the social media are including in their definition of other people’s money. We only bring the best of the best guest speakers to #iWIN and Russell qualifies as the best selling co-author of Real Estate Joint Ventures: The Canadian Investors’ Guide to Raising Money and Getting Deals Done.

These are the things you CAN’T learn in a book or podcast . . . These are the things we bring to the table for our Freedom 45 people. My goal for our clients is not to teach them more stuff… it’s to make them more wealth. Anyway, if you’ve had an interest in real estate, let me know. I’ve got a killer Freedom by 45 blueprint.

Don’t worry if you’re over age 45 or close to 45, our blueprint works for anyone looking to make more money and build wealth. Even if you think it’s too late for you, we can help you help your children and grandchildren in building more wealth.

Our next Infinity Wealth Investment Network, or iWIN for short, meeting is here in Toronto on March 28th. If you’d like to come, you have to act fast as these events sell out.

You can grab your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/iwin-march-meeting-with-susan-white-livermore-tickets-57126023474

But before that, we have our Kitchener-Waterloo Street Smart Tour this Saturday on March 9th with Tim Hong! You can find out more information and grab your FREE ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/iwin-kitchener-waterloo-investment-tour-march-9-tickets-57141131663

Without further ado, I give you my lovely wife, Cherry Chan of www.realestatetaxtips.ca, asking me crazy questions.

Show notes:

Cherry on the web
To register for iWIN’s monthly meetings
Russell Westcott’s best selling book
Erwin on the web

If you enjoyed the show and would like to learn more about investing in real estate then you do not want to miss my Top 10 Tips On Real Estate. It’s FREE to Download!!

I’ve interviewed many of the leading authorities in real estate, including Best Selling Authors like Julie Broad, Don R Campbell, Russell Westcott, and Tom Karadza. My super star investors include folks who acquire two properties per month or have transacted on over 100 properties. I have learned a thing or two in my own investing and distilled it down to 10, you-can-not-ignore, tips if you want to be a successful investor.

To download the report go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/book

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Hello Investors!!

Are you surviving the snow, ice and cold?  What better time than now to get away to Florida, no? This time next year I plan on go back stateside for the 10X Growth Conference as I just got back and it was awesome.  Here are my 🚨Top 3 takeaways from the first day and a half at #10xgrowthcon .

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📐1. More attention to digital assets, specifically websites, thanks to how tos by @tailopez. Check out his website if you want a great example.

🌟📈2. Scaling up is actually a way to reduce competition. Many have yet to learn the skills or raise the capital to do so, so scale up.

🎥3. Share more via video what I’m doing to help clients, members of #iWIN and, most importantly, my charity the @hamiltonbasketbrigade, because this isn’t about me. It’s about providing 1,000 families each year their best holiday ever.

Bonus takeaway: Likes are votes in a democracy, if this video helps you, please like. 🙏🙏🙏

How To Build a Portfolio of Over 200 Properties and Lessons Learned Surviving An Economic Downturn with Jared Hope

This week’s guest is excellent, as always. He’s a coach, a real estate business owner with property management and home construction businesses with 18 staff, and he’s transacted on over 200 properties since 2003. His name is Jared Hope of Tilt Property Group and he’s seen it all, from boom, to bust and 18.5% vacancy rates in the Alberta real estate market.

Jared even shares the moment where he almost lost it all to bankruptcy, having to rely on a stranger to pay for his family’s grocery bill.

Listeners, especially those in Ontario and BC, we’ve been on a very good run since 2008. There will be a downturn and Jared is here to share lessons on where he went wrong in the early days building a massive portfolio, what he would do different to insulate himself from six figure cash calls, and what experts to listen to… I have five pages of notes and know I would have 10X that if I were listening and not interviewing.

Enough from me, I give you Jared Hope.

How to Connect with Jared:

We’re already discussing to have Jared as our May speaker at iWIN. Stay tuned!

Web: https://www.tiltgroup.ca/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/tiltgroup
Twitter: @thejaredhope and @tiltproperties

If you enjoyed the show and would like to learn more about investing in real estate then you do not want to miss my Top 10 Tips On Real Estate. It’s FREE to Download!!

I’ve interviewed many of the leading authorities in real estate, including Best Selling Authors like Julie Broad, Don R Campbell, Russell Westcott, and Tom Karadza. My super star investors include folks who acquire two properties per month or have transacted on over 100 properties. I have learned a thing or two in my own investing and distilled it down to 10, you-can-not-ignore, tips if you want to be a successful investor.

To download the report go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/book

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

I separated my rib just three weeks ago at a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu tournament and this past Friday I was back golfing indoors, taking full swings.  My core strength is not as good as it used to be but it felt good being able to swing as hard as I wanted pain free. I’m also back doing gymnastic movements at Crossfit pain free. The only time I now feel the injury is when doing burpees when my sore rib touches the floor but it’s barely noticeable.

My point is, I’ve had enough people call me insane for fighting other adults and ending up hurt, but what’s the worse thing that could happen? I lost and lost badly yes, I got hurt, but I’m OK.

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Shooting zombies. We pwned them. I personally didn’t die and I think that’s the most important metric lol. Top team score out of 37. Experience was awesome and can’t wait to do it again. I’d recommend doing booking for two games as it goes by fast.

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So the worst case happened, time goes on, and I’m fine and getting ready for my next competitions. 🙂 Am I insane? I know I’m definitely different, and back to investing, what is the worst case investing in real estate? If you do just a little education, get a little good advice, buy a good property in a top ten town, you’re going to be fine. Worst case, you learn from your mistakes on the next one.

Or if you like giving 110% like I do to ensure more predictable results, hire a great coach and surround yourself with successful investors. If you’re looking for a place to meet successful investors, then come to the next Infinity Wealth Investment Network (iWIN for short) meeting where I’ve assembled a large number of the most successful investors I know. Many have been on this podcast and are killing it.  The super cool part is the investor community I know enjoys giving back so if you’re newer, that’s totally cool. You are more than welcome. Go to www.infinitywealth.ca  for more information.

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Hosted 🏠150 investors at our first Infinity Wealth Investment Network meeting. 🙏Thank everyone for the kind words and all those who signed up. You are getting in on the 🏗ground floor of something special and we take your trust in us very seriously. We are the change we want to see in the 🌎world, we are here to help, deliver value and experiences never seen before. . We just gained our first member of the Council of Awesomeness to ensure our members receive the most value, fun, experiences, and gain the 🔨🔧tools to build 💰wealth. . 🍻Cheers to all the action takers. Together, we rewrite our histories as it takes a village to raise a 🙌successful real estate business owner and investor. I am proof of how a network of 🥅goal oriented, sharing individuals can be successful and so can you!

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That brings us to this week’s guest, Steve Kulakowsky.  He’s one of our few returning guests and if you don’t know him, that’s OK.  He’s pretty much the youngest and hottest developer in Hamilton with numerous massive, mid rise, commercial real estate. He owns retail and office space with a little residential. Steve buys them ugly and renovates them into beautiful, interesting rental spaces. Check out their instagram, it’s commercial real estate porn https://www.instagram.com/coreurbaninc/ including nine of the hottest restaurants in Hamilton.

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August 31, 2016, we began welcoming our first residential tenants to Templar Flats. Two years has flown by! Our tenants bring our spaces to life, and we are thrilled they have chosen to call the Flats their home. #hamont

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Buying Ugly Commercial Buildings, a Combined 300,000 Square Feet, Renovating on Speculation and Changing Hamilton with Steve Kulakowsky

Before our interview, I invited Steve to lunch at a fabulous restaurant on King William St, and they just so happen to be one of Steve’s tenants. I also invited Luke Wywrot, who is building a 30 storey apartment building around the corner, as Luke and Steve have never met before. Luke will be by the show when’s he’s less busy. We had an awesome lunch, I was the old guy among the three of us. Lots of ideas were shared on advanced real estate topics, and that’s what cool about so many investors I know. Many are open to sharing how-to.

Just like this episode, Steve shares what motivates him, tips and strategies to attract commercial tenants, a Field of Dreams strategy in a market with double digit commercial vacancy and low rents, going from residential to commercial, and on and on. Hopefully we can get Steve to give a talk at the April iWIN Meeting.

To follow Steve:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreurbaninc/
Website: http://www.coreurban.ca/

If you’d like an introduction to Steve and you’re a friend, please let me know.

If you need a friend defined please read How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegi

If you enjoyed the show and would like to learn more about investing in real estate, then you do not want to miss my Top 10 Tips On Real Estate. It’s FREE to Download!!

I’ve interviewed many of the leading authorities in real estate, including Best Selling Authors like Julie Broad, Don R Campbell, Russell Westcott, and Tom Karadza. My super star investors include folks who acquire two properties per month or have transacted on over 100 properties. I have learned a thing or two in my own investing and distilled it down to 10, you-can-not-ignore, tips if you want to be a successful investor.

To download the report go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/book

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Hello Investor!!

How goes those new year’s resolutions? I personally do not make resolutions as my goals are being revised a couple times per year as priorities change and my goals for 2019 were set this past November.  If you don’t have goals… well my mentor Brian Tracy says “Goals are everything, everything else is commentary.”

One of my 2019 goals was to compete in one of my first Brazilian Jiu Jitsu tournaments on Jan 5th.  The decision was made to compete only 3.5 weeks in advance which was great – less time to stress about the competition.  I changed my schedule with my wife’s support and this definitely one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.

Preparing to fight other men is nerve wracking. I have to eat properly during the holidays, I had a total of three glasses of wine in December, made the time to train and, lucky me, I caught a cold a week before the event and couldn’t practice.

The day of the event, I lost my first match quite badly. I haven’t had the strength to watch the recording 🎥but I will eventually to show my coaches so they can tell me where I went wrong so I can learn from my mistakes. I was also injured in the process, my rib separated, so that was painful and I was scared but the quick turnaround between my early matches allowed my adrenaline 💉 to keep me in the fight.

This video is of my second and final match of the day. I forfeited the rest due to injury. I sped up the boring parts and my embarrassingly bad pulling of guard.

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Definitely one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. My first 🇧🇷Brazilian Jiu Jitsu tournament 🤼‍♂️. Preparing to fight other grown men is nerve wracking. I have to eat🍽🍴🥗 properly during the holidays, make time to train 🏋️‍♀️, I caught a 🥶😷 cold a week out so couldn’t practice. . 🤦‍♂️I lost my first match quite badly, I haven’t had the strength to watch the recording 🎥but I will eventually to show my coaches where I went wrong to learn from my ❌ mistakes ❌. I was also injured in the process so that stings but the quick turnaround between my early matches allowed my adrenaline 💉 to keep me in the fight. . 📽This video is of my second and final match of the day. I forfeited the rest due to injury. I sped up the boring parts and my embarrassingly bad pulling of guard 🤣 . 🤙What am I doing? I am pushing my limits. Entrepreneurs look to push themselves in areas outside of just business. I got steamrolled in my first match, I had a rough day and that is much worse than anything I’ll face at work this week or this month. As I tell my team, #nopressurenodiamonds 💎 . 🙏I want to thank my team mates and trainers and coaches 🦜 for getting me to through this event. This won’t be my last competition and look forward to healing and fixing the holes in my game. #nevergiveup

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Am I insane for doing this? Well my coach is doing a half iron man and  my old friend Quentin Desousa lost over 100 lbs in 2018 and is running a half marathon this year. One of my Jiu Jitsu coaches at the age of 46 is competing at the world championships in Las Vegas again this year.  

Successful people push their limits in areas outside of just business. I got steamrolled in my first match, I got hurt and submitted, but fought my next match 15 mins later.  It was a rough day and in business, shit happens just the same. Just know you can overcome your challenges, it’s been done before and there is no reason you can not do the same. As I tell my team and clients, no pressure no diamonds 💎.

I want to thank my teammates and trainers and coaches for getting me to through this event. This won’t be my last competition and look forward to healing and fixing the holes in my game. You only truly lose if you give up and I hate losing more than I like winning.

Speaking of successful people, at the time of this posting, I have over 150 of the most successful real estate investors from our community RSVP to my networking event.  The event takes place on January 23rd, which sold out in less than 80hours, and the waitlist now stands at 44. This is the biggest room of successful investors I’ve ever put together, so if you have big plans for 2019, you will want to be at the next meeting.

Our keynote speakers on Jan 23rd are currently building two houses from the ground up on a lot they already own via another investment property and had this lot severed. In simple terms, the land was free, so the returns are quite significant, especially the cash flow once the basements are legally suited.

Two houses >> four units, brand new.

This is an ideal strategy for investors new to developing and building, and we are very lucky to have Charles Wah, Steve Ford, and Andy Tran to share how they are doing it.

From Jason Gaignard, only 3% of the population are entrepreneurs, only 4% of those entrepreneurs have 7 figure businesses. They are rare. I’m one of the many that will be there Jan 23rd in Mississauga, Ontario. To get on the wait-list, please visit www.infinitywealth.ca/join 

You can also register for our next Street Smart Tour of Kitchener-Waterloo on January 26th, 2019 by Clicking Here!

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Craig Ballantyne is the first influencer I followed back in early 2000’s before influencer was a term to describe someone with a significant following.

I knew Craig from his highly successful online fitness training program. Craig’s clients would sign up online to learn how to exercise and diet to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle. Craig also taught his business and marketing methods and produced many other successful online fitness entrepreneurs. He is the real deal.

Fast forward to 2019 and Craig is still crushing it. Two personal friends of mine are enjoying his personal coaching and I’m enjoying Craig’s Perfect Day Formula as seen below. Here’s the link if you want to check it out: https://perfectdayformula.com/

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I interviewed the OG @realcraigballantyne for the podcast about the formula to a perfect morning, perfect day and perfect week so I’m crazy amped to dig into the Perfect Day Formula kit. Just look at all this stuff! Day planner, gratitude journal, work life balance assessment booklet, goal setting booklet. Holy crap this kit is complete!! . Productivity #10X is on its way!!! . 🙏🙏🙏 Craig!! @realcraigballantyne . Look out 2019, you’ve been warned, prepare for crushnihilation!! . #perfectday #perfectdayformula

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Craig is the author of the Perfect Day Formula and his brand new book “Unstoppable”. He’s been viewed on YouTube over 7 million times. Craig is one of the original gangsters, an OG of online direct marketing, and you can tell he’s been successful and around a long time when you read all the folks who wrote forewords for “Perfect Day Formula” – pretty much the who’s who of the entrepreneurship and marketing educators.

He’s also a podcaster at www.earlytorise.com

I ask Craig how to create a perfect morning, perfect day, perfect week, and perfect life. I think that’s something we all want.

I thought it was also pretty cool how we discussed Craig’s biggest fear of regret and what he’s doing to make sure his regret does not become reality.

Craig also shares how he built and organic following of almost 33,000 on Instagram with video.

This is an early favourite episode of mine for 2019.

Check him out on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/realcraigballantyne/

And seriously, you can email Craig at Craig(at)Godfather.com LOL!!

Without further ado….

If you enjoyed the show and would like to learn more about investing in real estate then you do not want to miss my Top 10 Tips On Real Estate. It’s FREE to Download!!

I’ve interviewed many of the leading authorities in real estate, including Best Selling Authors like Julie Broad, Don R Campbell, Russell Westcott, and Tom Karadza. My super star investors include folks who acquire two properties per month or have transacted on over 100 properties. I have learned a thing or two in my own investing and distilled it down to 10, you-can-not-ignore, tips if you want to be a successful investor.

To download the report go to www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/book

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.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, soon to be builder and Real Estate Investor

W: erwinzeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/