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Clockwise: Hand Stand Push Ups, Dave & Busters, Hamilton Basket Brigade, what 39 looks like.
Tony in the Sun Media: http://ottawasun.com/tag/tony-miller
Supporting Locke St and Donut Monster post ANTIFA Vandalism
I’m also going to intermittent fast. I have a couple friends who had success fasting in the morning by just having a Bullet Proof coffee (organic coffee with grass fed butter and organic coconut oil, that’s how I take it at least) and I’ve been successful testing this out. It’s now one week of this new diet and my digestion has never been better.
photo credit: https://www.thevoid.com/locations/toronto Highly recommended for something fun to do.
Hello Real Estate Investors in Toronto, Hamilton, Brantford, Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, St Catharines, Niagara!
Everyone over their ACRE weekend hangover?? I had to take a two hour nap on Monday after the information overload that is ACRE and all the “networking” over food and drink after the meetings.
Thank you for the kind words to everyone who came by to say, “Hello!” On Friday, I had a discussion with one gentleman about new construction condos in Hamilton. He came back to my booth on Sunday to say thank you for the podcast. Silly me, I forgot my Tiger Cats jersey at home on Friday.
I hope everyone enjoyed my talk on ACRE Sunday. Even though I speak in front of groups regularly, 500+ audiences are a different challenge with such a large stage and wide room.
I wasn’t thrilled with my performance, but like any challenge and experience, I will grow from it.
Speaking of challenges, this month’s guest on the podcast has undergone many challenges and over come them all so I hope you enjoy it and come away motivated!!
Do you know how to invest in real estate with other peoples money (and credit)? Well our March and April speakers do!!
Mandy Branham has completed 35 deals in the last two years, while our own Coach, Erika Spencer, has completed 21 deals in the same time. Both are past guests of this show, so you may want to listen to their interviews.
Mandy is creative in how she structures her deals in order to attract more business, and she will be sharing how at our March meeting.
What happens after you have your joint venture partner? Erika Spencer will be sharing how she manages the process of acquiring properties with the partner, post-sale client management or renos, and ongoing management reporting to keep partners happy and buying more property.
You do not want to miss this two part series!!!
Make sure to register at www.HaltonREI.ca/signup ASAP as seats are limited and we have had to waitlist folks in the past.
“I like your podcast, I think it’s real, it’s fresh, you have got good guests that are real life guests, it’s awesome” ~ Don R Campbell; All Time, Best Selling, Canadian Real Estate Author
If you would like to learn from Don and attend ACRE (short for Authentic Canadian Real Estate), just north of Toronto on March 2-4th here is the link:
Thank you to Andy Tran and SuiteAdditions.Com for dinner on Saturday!! He’s been a great help in getting me
It was necessary to order tons of food on Andy’s dime to prevent the table from flying away 😉
permits on three legal basement apartments. We have completed two so far. I am grateful to have Andy Tran on my team and for how accommodating the City of Hamilton is regarding basement apartments.
What a great weekend, and I didn’t even watch the Super Bowl. Congratulations to the Eagles and, more importantly, the creators of all the awesome commercials! Here’s my favourite. Peter Dlinkage went all in with his performance:
Neil Oliver, the newest member of the Rock Star Inner Circle. If you too would like to join, go here: https://rockstarinnercircle.com/erwin/
Continue to strive for better so you too may be the New England Patriots of real estate or, as I like to say to my team, the Navy Seals of real estate. 😃
Hello Everyone with Real Estate Investments!!
We are BAAACKKK! And we survived FOUR days and three nights in Las Vegas!!! LOL
On the Left, that’s ‘Doc’ and ex Green Beret, who has fought terrorists, and our guide through the zombie apocalypse. To quote Doc, “I’ve never seen a group shoot each other so much!” HAHAHA #friendlyfire
If you want the full ACRE experience, I recommend you plan to attend the informal evening festivities to network with the other attendees. To me, it’s a great time to reconnect with my out of town real estate friends who don’t make it to all the events but they make the time for ACRE because it’s such a great event.
Dr. Cowan with UFC Champion Max “Blessed” Holloway
Left to Right: Richard Dolan, President of REIN; Patrick Francey, CEO of REIN; me; Don R Campbell
This week we close on another investment property. It’s our 2nd investment property this year, with plans to buy our third, hopefully in December. Last week was November’s REIN meeting, and I finally remembered to update and submit my list of properties I had purchased as a REIN member. Lucky enough, Don Campbell was in town to present live, and I was awarded my gold pin for 17 properties. Don, and the REIN executives and members, have been a huge part of my journey. REIN just announced ACRE, the best weekend of real estate training, on March 2-3rd. Link: http://info.reincanada.com/toronto-acre-2018. The price is a rock bottom $687 plus tax, but hopefully I can get you listeners a discount code, so hang tight! For those of you who have been around for a while, you know $687 is a great return on investment. Other organizations charge $1,500 for a weekend event and I’ve invested thousands more for other business events.
Fully renovated, turnkey.
Hello Halton, Toronto, Hamilton, Brantford, St. Catharines, Niagara, Welland, Thorold real estate investors!!!
Who doesn’t like live music, especially when they put on THE BEST live performance. My credo is, life is all about experiences. I recommend you catch USS if they’re ever playing a gig near you. At the show in Hamilton, I had a great time with my friends Mike Gillespie, St Catharines investor extraordinaire; John Roumanis, Hamilton investor of $600,000 in 6 Years fame; and Steve.
Here is a youtube video of one of their lives shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT3KZIE27xo
With life being so short and everyone being so busy, I find my social circle continually distills down to just awesome people who are also successful in business, which makes for great conversations. So keeping with living your real estate investor’s life of health, wealth, family and fun; for those who enjoy having fun along side successful real estate investors, a group of us including: Andy Tran (second suite guy), Charles Wah (land developer guy), James Maggs (10 property guy), Roger Auger (property management guy), Zach Twose (contractor guy), John Roumanis ($600k in 6 years guy), me (Chinese guy); we are planning a social get together of fun and adult beverages at Dave and Busters in Oakville, which is basically Chucky Cheese for adults. Since there is no Halton REI Meeting for December, we figured we’d put out an open invite to everyone for an Xmas social. No tickets or passes, just pay your own way.
Welcome ladies and gentlemen investors across the greatest country in the world. My name is Erwin Szeto, aka Mr. Hamilton, and I bring you the Truth About Real Estate Investing show for Canadians, where it is my job to bring you experts in the world of investing. We will learn from their experience, pick out the lessons, tips and tricks, and figure out what makes them tick so you too can replicate their success to enhance your real estate investor’s life of health, wealth, friends, family and fun.
This week we have something different, like we do every week! In last week’s episode, Ryan Carr and I were stumped on the principle residence capital gains exemption Ryan is entitled to after he recently sold his current principle residence. This area of real estate tax is not well known, and I didn’t have the answer, so I did what any investor would do: walk down the hall to my wife’s office and ask her. It just so happens I’m married to the Cherry Chan of www.realestatetaxtips.ca, who this month was published in the CPA Magazine, where she goes on to educate Chartered Professional Accountants on taxation of investment real estate.
So, I walked back to my office, called my wife, clicked record, and asked her how to properly maximize one’s returns by declaring a rental property as one’s principle residence, along with some additional difficult follow-up questions. I hope you all enjoy this as I know how difficult it is to find answers to these very specific questions, without paying Accounting fees. As always, everyone’s situation is different, so do please contact your professional Chartered Accountant specializing in real estate investments.
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To reach out to Cherry:
website: www.realestatetaxtips.ca
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCCPA/
Till next time, just do it, I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto Real Estate, Land Development Investor
“Great experience for my first time and I will definitely be coming out again!” ~ Peter
“I’m not sure I would go again just for the lunch. Sounded like the morning session was informative and interesting. I went to see Cherry and to meet some more people. I was getting too lonely and want to broaden my investor circle. Lunch was great as an after-event of the morning session. :)”
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Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto Real Estate, Land Development Investor
A friend of mine was asking for sponsorship money for the EasterSealsSkate.org where her special needs child will skate with the future 2017/18 Stanley Cup Champions, Toronto Maple Leafs if they meet their donation goal. Sounds like a pretty amazing experience!! 5 minutes and an anonymous donation later, and done, their kid is going to skate with future hall of famers Awesome Matthews, Michal Nylander, Patrick Marleau, Mike Babcock, Morgan Rielly, the list goes on and on…
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Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto Real Estate, Land Development Investor
I don’t know how we did it! Actually, I do. The collective efforts of all wonderful people from the Hamilton Basket Brigade, including many of you readers and listeners and clients, who we consider our friends. Though we investors are often attacked in the media and by the government, real estate investors are generous people accounting for over 90% of our donations, so please keep being YOU. I just loved the smiling faces of both the volunteers and the recipients, greeting us with faces of surprise and gratitude. I am truly thankful for friends like you who pull this event together to make a difference, however small, to families in need.
Super Excited to Have the Mayor Volunteer to Help Out
Here is just some of the feedback we collected:
“Our family was one of the lucky groups to receive this generous basket!!!! I was in complete shock and cried after they left. I’m so grateful and will definitely be paying it forward. Thank u!!!!”
“I think my sister’s friend received one of those baskets you were talking about. I don’t know who put her name forward, but you should know that Barney is off with a cancer diagnosis and Betty is really struggling to support the family on just her income [not their real names]. I know that she was extremely grateful for the Thanksgiving dinner provided to her by strangers. Keep doing what you’re doing as it is helping so many within our community.”
To Listen:
On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/truth-about-real-estate-investing…/id1100488294
Google Play: http://goo.gl/CAM5Mn
On Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=87335&refid=stpr
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Till next time, just do it and I believe in you!
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto Real Estate Investor
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Hello Investors!!
While behind the scenes, we had some bumps along the way but we couldn’t be happier with the result of the inaugural Halton Real Estate Investors Group meeting this past Saturday. Even the weather wanted to compete with us for attendees with the sunny skies and 30+ degree weather yet almost 80, fully caffeinated, keen and alert real estate investors packed our room at Sheridan College and I couldn’t be more grateful for your support.
Keynote speaker Donato Cascioli shared some very personal stories on how he overcame adversity as a poor student and college drop out to become the highly successful land developer that he is today. For the last three weeks, I’ve been updating my vision board. I’m collecting images of stuffs using the Google, using a collage app on my mac called CollageIt 3, then I’ll put it on USB to print at Staples and laminate to put on my wall near my bed so I see it before bed and when I wake. This was a tip I picked up from Daymond John of Shark Tank. If you heard how powerful goal setting was for Donato than I’m sure you’re doing the same.
Thank you everyone for the feedback, I read it all and am grateful to for the friends and team members who presented on Saturday. One attendee emailed me this morning, “I really enjoyed the Halton REI club meeting this weekend. So much amazing info. I’m also an avid listener and fan of the podcast. Great job! I love your market and economics based approach.”
Thank to Coaches Tim and Erika for sharing whats happening in target investment markets from Mississauga to Niagara. Thank you to our sponsors Auger Properties and Alan Lo of Pinnacle Wealth Brokers.
To get in touch with Kaush, email is best: knanubhai@gmail.com
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I’d like to say thanks again to Kaush for taking time out of his busy schedule to hang out and talk to us, and to welcome you all back from the summer (the season, not the weather). If you enjoyed the show, please let me know and I really appreciate 5 star reviews on iTunes or Google Play or Stitcher. I read every comment and and grateful for all the fans of the show, thank you for the kind words who have already posted. If you’d like to be notified of new episodes in your email, simply go to https://www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/ and type in your email address.
Till next time. Just do it! And I believe in you.
Hello Real Estate Investors!
Clockwise from Top left: Akon inviting the ladies to dance on stage, Danielle Laporte, Lewis Howes, Naveen Jain, Simon Sinek, Jason Gaignard of Mastermind Talks and I, Daymond John, Nicole Arbour
What a great weekend at the Archangel Summit!! They describe themselves as “An annual gathering of mission-driven entrepreneurs, leaders, and professionals who want to do well by doing good. 100% of the proceeds will be gifted forward to The Archangel Fund, which is used to provide micro-loans and donations to entrepreneurs and charities making the world a better place.” A business conference with a conscience.
Basically, it was a conference with speakers who help entrepreneurs and they have a social conscience. In my (Erwin) own small way, I try to do the same by giving back to the community (by the way, HamiltonBasketBrigade.com is in action again Oct 7th, delivery 300 Thanksgiving dinners to the poor). Keynote speakers include Daymond John, you know him from the TV Reality Show “Shark Tank,” and founder of the clothing brand FUBU (if you or your kids like hip hop, you know the brand); best selling author Simon Sinek, recording artist Akon, Danielle Laporte who Oprah is big fan of. Anyways, the Sony Centre was packed with 2,000 like minded folks, entrepreneurs who want to change the world for the better. After a summer of vacation, enjoying the family, letting my restrictive diet slip a bit… it’s summer, I see ice cream, I eat ice cream; same goes with burgers on a bun :). Archangel was the perfect ra ra event to get fired up again to close out 2017 on a high! On our latest podcast episode, Charles Wah and I recount our takeaways from Archangel 2017 and if you enjoy these types of events, then you’ll want to have a listen.
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Top of Grouse Mountain Post Grouse Grind
I hope you had a great summer! My wife and I just returned from a week in Vancouver and had an excellent time. We can see why Vancouver is consistently the most livable city in Canada with the city nestled in between ocean and mountains and rainforests and underrated beaches. Outdoor adventures are aplenty but what isn’t aplenty is real estate to keep up with the demand. As any real estate investor, we couldn’t help but browse Realtor.ca for what local properties were asking for and Vancouver does not disappoint as the least affordable city in Canada. The AirBnb where we stayed, similar apartments were asking around $1,000 per square foot for a building downtown but was built in 1982, no air conditioning by the way and only electric baseboard heating. Houses, they cost just a bit more than the areas we invest. A house listed for $400,000 in Kitchener is priced low but safe to say it will sell for less than $500,000. The same house in Burnaby, just east of downtown was asking $1,300,000. Needless to say we will continue to use short term housing like hotels and AirBnb when visiting Vancouver vs. purchasing a vacation property 😃. If we even want to move there, we will definitely need to invest more in order to afford it.
Hello Real Estate Investors!
Who wants to golf?! Not me. Swinging golf clubs is tough on my shoulders as it’s repetitive, I swing way too hard, and I have no technique. It all started when John from podcast episode 6-years-part-time-and-600k-in-returns reached out asking if I wanted to golf and I responded, let’s do something fun instead. The somewhat local gun club (Silverdale Gun Club) had a special on a sniper rifle package and that’s what we did on a Friday afternoon at the gun club. We shot a couple rounds with an AR15, SKS, Remington 700, and the big daddy of them all, BMG 50 which weighed in at 34 lbs and each additional bullet would cost us $15 per. Don’t worry if the gun names mean nothing to you. I have no idea either, this was only my third time ever holding a gun in five years…. Our instructor Eric was patient and excellent and the gang agreed, it was better than playing 18 holes. We all had fun but make no mistake, the afternoon was a productive one because everyone one in attendance is an active investor with numerous properties and leaders in their fields. When you spend time with like minded people, you are guaranteed success. You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
There is nothing wrong with having fun but if you can, make it a mastermind with successful folks. Talk to your Accountant too because maybe the costs are tax deductible
Speaking of masterminds…
Short version:
All is the same, in our pursuit of cash flowing properties we expanded beyond Hamilton years ago and a brand change was necessary. Think of this as Microsoft Word’s “find and replace” of the words “Mr Hamilton” and replace with “Halton REI.” The same award winning service and same people but we are adding some more exceptional talent to the team.
Long version:
When I first started investing, we were breaking even on single family homes near downtown Burlington. The first property was just over $150,000 for a 2 bed, 1 bath bungalow in the downtown core of Burlington, which later became a high in demand area forcing prices up. The second property was in a bit better condition on the same street but $235,000 with not much better rents. Rents went up but did not keep pace with prices. We then directed our focus to the west in Waterdown, one of the more affluent areas of Hamilton and the same happened, real estate prices went up faster than rents then I looked to the west again to invest in west Hamilton. In 2012, again I went west and purchased several properties in St. Catharines. 2013, we purchased two investment properties in Brantford, 2014-17 I purchased more properties in Hamilton. As an investor, our objective is positive cash flow in area with strong economic fundamentals. Today, our team of real estate coaches/agents do so much business in St. Catharines and Niagara region that we often acquire more houses there than Hamilton as Hamilton prices have risen over 20% each year for the last three years. Our pursuit of cash flow has expanded our search for income properties to Brantford and Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge. Many of you know we conduct business outside of Hamilton as you have seen the invites for Street Smart Tours of St. Catharines, Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge, on top of Hamilton hence it is time for a change in brand from Mr. Hamilton (MrHamilton.ca) to the Halton Real Estate Investors Group (HaltonREI.ca). The name, branding and colours may be different but you can expect the same award winning service and same people lead by me (Erwin) but we are adding some more exceptional talent to the team and will make announcements when official.
We are also moving our meetings to a new location: we’ve out grown the Rock Star Office’s training room, though we loved the price and convenience, we could use more space for comfort and to allow more attendees as in the past, we’ve had to wait list and turn away people. We want everyone to have a chance at financial freedom so we are relocating to the Sheridan College’s Conference Centre located at 1410 Trafalgar Rd, Oakville, ON, just north of the QEW.
The room can accommodate 90 people so do feel free to invite your friends, co-workers, and family if they too are interested in financial security via real estate.
Stay tuned, we’re still working out details to make registering for the event on Sept 23rd as seamless as possible.
I can’t wait to see you all again September 23rd.
~Erwin
Hello investors! I hope you’re enjoying the summer weather!! Sadly the summers are so short, all I can think about is how little summer this is left.
To enjoy the summer sun and as usual, combining things I enjoy: excitement, entrepreneurship, real estate, great company, I’ve been organizing get togethers with like minded, successful people. We had more events before kids and had gotten away with it but in my endeavor for self development and better networking opportunities, I restarted my “Hambundance” group. Hambundance is a word mash between Hamilton and abundance. It’s silly I know but it makes me laugh.
This week we rented power boats from the Harbour Front Center in Toronto, raced around the harbor, and trolled through Toronto Island for three hours. It was a blast, I posted more picture and video on my facebook.com/erwinszeto. After, we had lunch at the Amersterdam Brew House on the patio for more networking where I selfishly picked certified professional coach Ryan Hindmarsh’s brain on leadership. As 2pm approached, the rule of Toronto is to get the heck out of town or forever be trapped in its traffic jam. My car pool group combined owns over 30 properties so you bet the conversation was productive and the car radio stayed off.
This week I’m excited to bring to you Nick Ditomaso, he’s been investing for less than three years after 20 something years of sitting on the sidelines. Even as a single dad, he’s been super successful with just a few well selected investment properties and with the proceeds of just one property, Nick is paying off his mom’s car loan, paying for his son’s wedding, donating to charity, and still has sufficient capital for a down payment or two for more investment properties. Nick’s claim to fame is his ability to refinance his own home for multiple down payments, he almost did it THREE times within 12 months and successfully achieved above market appraisals each time. Listen in on his tips on how he did it, plus, his advice on books to read and clubs to join.
To Listen:
Google Play: http://goo.gl/CAM5Mn
On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.
On Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.
Recommendations by Nick:
Real Estate Investing in Canada: Creating Wealth with the ACRE System by Don R Campbell
Secrets of the Canadian Real Estate Cycle: An Investor’s Guide
The Property Management Toolbox: A How-To Guide for Ontario Real Estate Investors and Landlords
Rock Star Real Estate Membership
https://rockstarinnercircle.com/erwin
Real Estate Investment Network (REIN, pronounced rain)
https://rein.rstrm.com/3MU4oTq-4Mhaoh
Annual ACRE (Accredited Canadian Real Estate) Systems.
http://info.reincanada.com/edmonton-acre-2017
I usually have a discount code closer to the Toronto event each year.
“Erwin’s Group” Halton Real Estate Investors Group
Tenant Location Services in Hamilton, Crystal Ross
http://investorspropertymanagement.ca/
So Reit Club
https://www.facebook.com/SoReitClub/
Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Robin Sharma
Nick On Twitter
@propertysmarts
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If you would like to start out on your investing journey, be supported by a team of investor specialists and be successful like Nick, do join us at a future Haltonrei.ca event. Go to HaltonREI.ca to register or if you’d like to get started immediately in building your wealth, fill out the contact form at HaltonREI.ca/contact. Event space is limited as we always have waitlists so avoid disappointment by registering as soon as possible and I look forward to seeing you there. Thank you for listening, this is Erwin Szeto of the Truth About Real Estate Investing show and I’ll talk to you soon.
I am super proud of my little cousin Christopher, here I am wearing his Timmy’s visor. He’s not really little anymore as he just turned 17 but he did get a summer job at Tim Hortons. He’s still in training but the plan is he’ll keep working when he’s back to school to save up money for a car. Christopher is crazy passionate about all vehicles: tanks, planes, trains, cars, bikes. I seriously ask for his advice when buying cars but I have to temper his preferences as he seems to think I operate without a budget. I don’t need a BMW M3 or M5, I don’t care about the extra 2-300 horsepower, I care about my monthly payments and how much of my lease is tax deductible
I’m proud because he’ll learn hard work, team work, and eventually, how much it sucks to work for minimum wage in the service industry to motivate him to something bigger and better. I want the same for my kids as their lives are sheltered and privileged, nothing like our parents and grandparents and great grandparents. Both my wife and I come from extremely hard working, impoverished families. My wife’s family are farmers who work directly on the land. My grandfather was a labourer and his brother worked on the Canadian railway. All back breaking work. My back gets sore if I sit or stand for too long
But I know for a fact we investors work hard to build our real estate business and like I want my kids to learn hard work, I’d like government employees and those who think raising taxes and costs (hydro, minimum wage) on small business should start their own small business. Based on our governments own statistics, failure is high, “In 2013, the total number of SME births was 78,430, compared with 83,240 deaths, which resulted in a net decrease of 4,810 businesses.” source: https://www.ic.gc.ca/
For anyone with a small to medium sized business including real estate investors who invest using corporations, you’re probably as disappointed as I am in Minister Morneau’s proposed changes to the tax benefits we small business work so hard to earn. Here’s a great one line summary of the proposal: “income taxes are highly unfavourable to business owners and investors who, unlike consumers, pay tax twice: once when they earn their income and a second time after they invest it and pay taxes on the returns.” “These measures, contrary to much of the news coverage, aren’t just targeted at the “rich” but will also hit middle-class business owners, are expected to increase federal taxes by $250 million, and provincial revenues by roughly another half of that. This is just one more way to discourage entrepreneurship, on top of all the tax increases in the past two years. If the Republicans’ plan for tax reform happens in the U.S., even more young entrepreneurs will be looking to head south instead of here.“
With these proposed new taxes going on, I caught up with real estate Accountant Cherry Chan, chartered professional Accountant. She’s also a mom, a small business owner with employees and a real estate investor with several properties so she’s no different than you and I accept she knows a bit about tax and accounting.
In this episode, Cherry will talk about how these changes are bad for your business and what you can do about it.
Without further ado, I present to you, real estate Accountant Cherry Chan.
For a more detailed summary on how what a real estate Accountant thinks of these changes, click here: http://realestatetaxtips.ca/
For a FREE copy of Cherry’s book: COMPLETE TAXATION GUIDE TO CANADIAN REAL ESTATE INVESTING: HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR REAL ESTATE PORTFOLIO AND MINIMIZE TAX, click here: http://
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This week, we’re doing something different, we do not have a guest but instead you’re stuck with me! My plan is to buy three houses this year and we just locked up the first of three and I’d like to detail for you the lead up to the purchase, how the purchase went, and where we are going with it. If the listeners enjoy this episode, I’ll make a series of updates on how I invest.
Just to let you know, we have a new website where we will be posting all new and old podcast episodes, show notes, contact info for our guests. The website is www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca. Going forward, all our other websites will forward you to this website for simplicity. If you’re a newer listener, I highly recommend you go back and listen to previous guests for lessons on investing and stories of inspiration. Till next time, my name is Erwin Szeto, thank you for listening and happy real estate investing.
Google Play: http://goo.gl/CAM5Mn
On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/truth-about-real-estate-investing…/id1100488294
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If you would like to hear more about my back story, you can listen to Russell Westcott’s interview of me here: http://blog.reincanada.com/transitioning-into-full-time-real-estate
Announcing the Halton Real Estate Investors Club (coming soon: HaltonREI.ca)
If you’re from the Toronto area, especially west of the city and are interested in learning more about investing in real estate, I am happy to announce that coming soon is the Halton real estate investors club this September 2017. This will be the best place to rub elbows with successful real estate investors that can help you. I know more self made millionaires through real estate than any other job or asset class so you’ll want to be part of the club. As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together. The Halton REI will be hosted by yours truly, Erwin aka “Mr. Hamilton” Szeto. I have been hosting networking meetings for over three years and we’re simply growing and making our wonderful group open to more investors so we may help more people. As always, we will host a guest speaker or two, provide economic updates and market updates on income property prices and rents, mortgage updates, lessons from the streets so you may learn tactics and strategies you can apply tomorrow to your own portfolio.
Who should attend? Anyone interested in learning more about investing in real estate
Why should you attend? If you’re like anyone I know you want to retire early, retire your wife or husband, pay for your kids University, support your favourite charities, the list goes on and on.
So stay tuned, I’ll update you all once we have complete details.
This week we have an exceptional guest in Elizabeth Kelly, who has been investing for over 12 years and has built a large portfolio of buy, rent and hold investment properties with her husband. She co-founded a property management company based in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Elizabeth also runs a boutique Rent to Own company, which specializes in providing home ownership options for families.
On the business side, Elizabeth coaches and trains investors, and has done so for the last five years. While doing so she noticed a service gap in the mortgage industry for real estate investors, hence she obtained her mortgage license to specialize in helping investors plan, structure and creatively finance their real estate portfolio so they can enjoy their retirement and leave a legacy for their families.
To reach out and connect with Elizabeth:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SandstoneKL/, https://www.facebook.com/Rent2HomeCanada/
http://www.rent2home.ca/contact
http://www.kirklandlakeapartments.ca/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-kelly-549b6b1b/
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Welcome ladies and gentlemen investors across the greatest country in the world. This is the Truth About Real Estate Investing show for Canadians, where it is my job to bring you experts in the world of investing to learn their expertise and experience. In our interviews, we will flush out their out their strategies and lessons so we may listen and takeaway highly tactical tips and ideas to improve our investment portfolios.
We’ve had guests in the past from the other side of the country. Don Campbell, who resides in British Columbia, Pierre Paul Turgeon, who’s from Alberta. This week our guest, Andy Tran, is on the other side of the world in Japan, visiting his wife’s family. I’ve been friends with Andy since 2009, when we met at a mutual friend’s birthday and ran into each other again at REIN. Andy was one of my first clients, as I helped him purchase investment properties in Hamilton back in 2010, but now the tables have turned as I have hired Andy to prepare my investment property for a legal basement suite conversion. As always, I believe in hiring the best to work on my business and it just so happens that Andy is a leading expert in accessory apartments in the golden horseshoe of Ontario. Andy is guiding me and my property through the city’s permit process including building code, certified drawings, working with the city’s planners and inspectors etc… stuff that I neither enjoy nor have time for.
Andy is a former home inspector and former Manager of Education for Carson Dunlop, a well-known home inspection company in Toronto that produces half of the education material for home inspectors. He’s the Author of book “Legal 2nd Suites – A Beginners Guide.” Andy is a regular guest speaker at different real estate networking events and an all-around nice guy so without further do, I present to you Andy Tran.
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Andy’s website http://www.suiteadditions.com/#home-section
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Welcome ladies and gentlemen across the greatest country in the world, this is the Truth About Real Estate Investing show for Canadians, where it is my job to bring you experts in the world of investing so we may learn from their experience in hopes that we can duplicate their success, and inspire YOU to take action for a better financial future for yourself and those closest to you.
This week we welcome one of the greatest teachers of apartment building investing. Returning to the show is former lawyer, former CMHC analyst for default management and underwriter for multi-family properties, Pierre Paul Turgeon. Pierre Paul is one of the foremost experts in this area as an author, high in demand speaker at the Real Estate Investment Network and this past month at Rock Star’s Your Life, Your Terms event.
He’s back to give you an update on oil, Edmonton, Alberta, and why apartment building investment makes sense for any portfolio. If you feel you need more preparation before purchasing a building, Pierre Paul just so happens to be launching both an online course and a live, in person, hands on training class coming up later this year right in Hamilton, Ontario and he’ll be making the announcement on the show. Links and details are in the show notes.
So without further ado, I am pleased to announce Pierre Paul Turgeon.
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What will you learn at the upcoming free class?
I’ve been part of Rock Star since 2010 and you will be learning the #1 strategy we have implemented in Hamilton, St Catharines & Niagara Region to transact on hundreds of investment properties, producing several millionaire clients. The strategy works so well, our clients’ success has been noticed, resulting in our real estate team being awarded real estate agent of the year in 2015, 2016, and 2017, by multiple publications.
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This episode is brought to you by Invest in St. Catharines Inner Circle Meeting. Years ago, when I was a dewy eyed, novice investor, I sought out meet ups and “Mastermind” meetings for networking opportunities. At the time I was already a REIN member and had our first three properties, which made me the expert of the group. I felt like no expert, the meetings were unstructured and most folks were just tire kickers. It was a massive waste of time. I wanted to surround myself with action-takers. Fast forward to today, we host monthly Inner Circle Meetings meant for the serious investor who is serious about taking action in securing a better financial future for themselves and the people they care about. Our focus is on education, on everything an investor needs to be successful and everything I’ve come across to be an award winning real estate agent and investor.
Each and every meeting has a wait list so don’t delay and register today for our Inner Circle Meeting. Immediately following each meeting is an optional, highly recommended Street Smart Tour where you are guided by one of our highly successful investor coaches. They lead a tour of properties in a select top town for investments. Nothing replaces boots on the ground experience, and sometimes we get lucky and uncover a gem of a property. There is no pressure to buy anything EVER!! But we will recommend to you what we would buy for ourselves.
Kevin started investing in 2007 with a vacant, run down six-plex that he purchased with no money down. Now a full time investor, Kevin continues to fix up and rent multi-family properties, as well as flipping single family homes. If you know Kevin, you’ll know he has a passion for learning and sharing knowledge, hence he decided to start LifeStyle Housing Radio, a weekly radio show and podcast for real estate investors. That’s not all! Kevin, being from Thunder Bay, hasn’t always been able to attend all the great real estate events in the GTA, so he started the LifeStyle Housing Summit to make great real estate education available to everyone – no matter where they live. When he’s not working on a property, Kevin is skiing and coaching at the local ski resort and for the Lakehead varsity ski team.
In case you haven’t heard Kevin’s LifeStyle Housing Radio show, I’m going to play for you Kevin’s very original radio show introduction. Without further ado, I give you: Kevin Bunzeluk.
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This episode is brought to you by Rock Star Real Estate’s Free 90-Minute Training Class where you can Learn The #1 Real Estate Investing Strategy That Has Created Millions In Cash Flow For Canadian Investors Without Touching A Hammer.
What will you learn at the upcoming free class?
I’ve been part of Rock Star since 2010 and you will be learning the #1 strategy we have implemented in Hamilton, St Catharines & Niagara Region to transact on hundreds of investment properties, producing several millionaire clients. The strategy works so well, our clients’ success has been noticed, resulting in our real estate team being award real estate agent of the year in 2015, 2016, and 2017, by multiple publications.
So don’t delay, please to go www.rockstarinnercircle.com/erwin, there are only a few seats left and there is always a waiting list.
This episode is brought to you by Invest in St. Catharines Inner Circle Meeting. Years ago, when I was a dewy eyed, novice investor, I sought out meet ups and “Mastermind” meetings for networking opportunities. At the time I was already a REIN member and had our first three properties, which made me the expert of the group. I felt like no expert, the meetings were unstructured and most folks were just tire kickers. It was a massive waste of time. I wanted to surround myself with action-takers. Fast forward to today, we host monthly Inner Circle Meetings meant for the serious investor who is serious about taking action in securing a better financial future for themselves and the people they care about. Our focus is on education, on everything an investor needs to be successful and everything I’ve come across to be an award winning real estate agent and investor.
Each and every meeting has a wait list so don’t delay and register today for Invest in St. Catharines Inner Circle Meeting. Immediately following each meeting is an optional, highly recommended Street Smart Tour where you are guided by one of our highly successful investor coaches lead a tour of properties in a select top town for investments. Nothing replaces boots on the ground experience, and sometimes we get lucky and uncover a gem of a property. There is no pressure to buy anything EVER!! But we will recommend to you what we would buy for ourselves.
Hello ladies and gentlemen investors from across Canada, welcome to another episode of the truth about real estate investing, where it is my pleasure to bring to you investor stories to educate, inspire and maybe even entertain. This week we have a guest referred by a friend of the show in Amy Halpenny. She’s new to real estate investing, but she shot out of a cannon. She acquired five properties in just over six months in Collingwood and the Durham Region, converting each of them to add secondary suites, for a total of ten units.
On-the-job Amy combines strategic ‘big picture’ thinking with well-honed management skills, operational know-how, and a relentless persistence to “get ‘er done.”
Before getting into real estate, Amy worked in small business and start-ups for over 15 years in strategy, sales, marketing and operations.
In this interview we talk about Amy’s reasons for investing, the courses she took, and how they helped. She also discusses how her investing strategy will insulate her from market corrections.
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Hello ladies and gentlemen investors from across Canada! This week we have a special guest, Oliver Manalese. I’ve known Oliver for many years, dating back to my first year at REIN in 2008. However, he no longer invests in real estate. Just to confirm, you are indeed listening to the Truth About Real Estate Investing show and one of the truths of the investment business is it’s not for everyone. In Oliver’s case, he built a successful business, made a bunch of money doing so, and later decided to change directions.
Since 2012, Oliver Manalese is a Breakthrough Coach. He coaches, consults and trains creative leaders in a process of Aligned Reinvention. Through breakthrough insights, intuitive guidance, and transformational tools, his clients create lives and businesses that reflect their deepest purpose on this planet.
His work is based in Ontology. Simply put, he looks at the different ways we are being and how it determines our reality of what is possible and not possible. In today’s culture of hustle, overwork, and never enough, being is the key component that’s missing. Returning to being is what translates into a greater sense of presence, flow, and trust in the unfolding of our unique process.
In this episode we talk about a variety of topics: how rent-to-own works, how Oliver raised capital as a 22 year old with limited start up capital, how real estate taught him about entrepreneurship, the importance of personal development and growth. He was so good at the business, other investors sought out Oliver to hire him to be their investing coach. This led to Oliver’s aha moment of wanting to help people in a more fulfilling way as the full time break through coach that he is today. Apparently, it’s working as for both personal or professional projects, Oliver’s clients report having a greater sense of inner peace, satisfaction, confidence, joy, and abundance.
So, without further ado, I introduce to you, Oliver Manalese
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Oliver is also host of The Oliver Manalese Show, a podcast that dives into the breakdowns and breakthroughs of influential people. Guests include accomplished entrepreneurs, coaches, and authors who vulnerably share their genuine challenges and the insights that empowered them to breakthrough.
For more information and complimentary sessions visit: http://www.olivermanalese.com/
Connect with Oliver on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/OliverManalese
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Real Estate Investment Network: reincanada.com
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill: https://www.amazon.ca/Think-Grow-Rich-Million-Dollars/dp/0449214923/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492093250&sr=1-1&keywords=think+and+grow+rich
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz: https://www.amazon.ca/Psycho-Cybernetics-Updated-Expanded-Maxwell-Maltz-ebook/dp/B00SI02BW4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492093294&sr=1-1&keywords=maxwell+maltz
Last Word on Power by Tracy Gross
War of Art by Steven Pressfield
The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida
Welcome to another episode of the Truth About Real Estate Investing, where it is my job to bring you lessons from the streets, education on all things real estate investing, inspiration, and maybe some entertainment.
This week we have a very special guest, a multiple time best selling author, the best selling Canadian real estate author in history – but he doesn’t just write! He knows what he’s talking about. Don is a veteran investor, a teacher, a philanthropist, market analyst, and in his free time, Don pursues his passion which is organic farming – and not just plants, livestock too.
Don has spoken to tens of thousands of people on stages all over North America, Australia, and Ireland, sharing his analysis, his strategies and his life philosophies. When the national media: CBC, BNN, CTV, Global News, Financial Post, Globe and Mail, Sun Media, etc… wants an unbiased comment on the real estate market, they go to Don in his role as Senior Analyst of the Real Estate Investment Network, a company that has provided detailed forecasts and analysis of housing markets across Canada for over 24 years.
Today, my goal is to build upon the interview we did 12 months ago (episode 2). I suggest you listen to it if you haven’t already. Today we dig more into economics, more specifically about the craziness going on in our major markets, what’s causing it, the one book we all need to read (and no, it wasn’t written by Don), and what it was like investing in the 80’s when interest rates were in the double digits and climbing. We also get deeper into Don’s story, to drag out some tips and strategies you may not have heard before. You’ll find this a fast-paced discussion, so I suggest you get your notepad ready. Without further ado, let me welcome Don Campbell to the podcast:
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This week we have a special guest in Michal Wywrot, who started out investing in real estate at the age of 17 while going to school and playing Poker. He used the winnings to graduate university debt free. Mike traveled the world as a professional poker player on the top three world poker tours, having played in LA, Las Vegas, Croatia, and Monte Carlo. Michal and brother Luke’s investing is just as varied and spread out, having investing in new construction condos in Markham, nine student houses in Hamilton, flips and rent to owns in Brampton and Durham regions, an apartment building in Etobicoke, and finally, their current project, developing 30 units in Toronto.
Should you want to learn more about their business or join them in a future development opportunity, go to their website at www.lch.to
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lch.to/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifestylecustomhomes.ca/
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That’s right, a part time investor from Toronto investing in cash flowing, Hamilton real estate and improved his net worth by $600,000 in just six years. Gross rents of $8,000 per month and John’s personal efforts to generate those revenues is 30 minutes per week or 2 hours per month, therefore his hourly rate is $4,000/hour.
After over a decade of sitting on the sidelines and knowing real estate was an excellent asset class, John finally took the leap after meeting his real estate coach in Erwin Szeto (full disclosure, John is my client). John, son of Greek immigrants, being a rather smart guy who has his MBA and Chartered Professional Accountant designation, took the leap and purchased his first investment property, in April 2011, a single family, semi-detached for $240,000 which is now worth over $400,000 in today’s market.
John has a full time, management job in Toronto, recently married to lovely wife Freda, and they are expecting their first child. With busy life including teaching at Sheridan College, achieving a black belt in Karate, learning to play guitar and full-time career, John still managed to make investing in real estate a priority and invested in one additional property per year.
John is an avid stock investor within his RRSP account using his own and his company’s contributions and we had a great conversation around SELF DIRECTED, educated, conservative, stock investing as well.
Show notes:
Final thoughts, I couldn’t find my proper mic for in person interviews so please do turn up the volume as I sound quiet and I know for future episodes when I am serving/consuming wine, to remove the wine charms 😛
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This episode is brought to you by Rock Star’s Real Estate’s Free Training Class: rockstarinnercircle.com/erwin. As always, I only ever recommend services, investments that I would invest in myself and I have attended this training class at least twice, I’ve been a consumer of Rock Star’s newsletters, events, VIP events, etc. since 2010 and highly recommend them. Recently, I’ve been recommending the Free Training class even more often as I’m finding many novice investors, even the highly educated ones with post graduate degrees (including my brother, Tony, who has a higher IQ than me and my cousin Simon, a professional engineer, who have both recently registered) would benefit from fundamental, real estate training for beginners.
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This week we are talking to Steve Kulakowsky, co-owner of Core Urban Inc., where him and partner Dave have renovated and converted a 26 unit apartment building into condos, turned a former school into 36 condos, and transformed a few other dated and rough buildings into attractive, interesting places for people to call home in and around downtown Hamilton. Steve’s story in his rise to fame and success contains many lessons for new and old investors, so I’m really excited to share his story with you. Do make sure to check out Steve’s portfolio on his website at www.coreurban.ca/projects/ as words do not do justice to what Steve means by “interesting places”
Check out this article as well on Why restaurant veterans are ditching Toronto for Hamilton. The article mentions several restaurants located in Steve’s buildings on King William in downtown Hamilton. The article says a lot about why people from all walks of life are moving to Hamilton. Quoting the article “$25-a-day parking, brutal traffic, high prices, miserable people and the money-rules corporate restaurant scene.”
Empire Times – Mix of restaurant and commercial spaces
Reading between the lines, these restaurant professionals are quitting their jobs to start their own ventures in Hamilton partly because the spaces, rent, renovation costs are so much less.
If you enjoyed this interview, please leave a review on which ever platform you’re using. If you’d like to say thanks to Steve, I’m sure he’d appreciate you dining at one of his tenant’s restaurants, or if you know a commercial property coming up for sale please let Steve know!
To reach out to Steve, you can contact him through his website here: http://www.coreurban.ca/general-inquiries/
On twitter: https://twitter.com/coreurban
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Thanks for listening! Until next time!
This week, we have a very special guest in Tom Karadza (https://twitter.com/tomkaradza), co-founder and co-owner on Rock Star Real Estate, a two time Profit 500 company, which makes Rock Star one of the 500 fastest growing companies in Canada. Rock Star manages a membership of over 800 investors called the Rock Star Inner Circle and you can learn more about it on their website www.rockstarinnercircle.com.
Even though Rock Star members invest in every real estate strategy imaginable, they are best known for rent-to-own, having members transacted on 1,800 – 2,000 rent-to-owns to date. If anyone out there has done more in Canada, kindly let me know because I don’t think any other group or company comes close.
During this interview we talk about the day Tom was yelled at in front of his co-workers for missing a sales target which was the catalyst for Tom to change paths and begin his and brother Nick’s journey to starting Rock Star Real Estate.
We talk about the investment of Tom’s money, time, but more importantly, the sacrifices of family time and health to take the business where it is and shares his lessons learned. We talk about rent to own as a strategy, how it works, which markets the strategy is best for, what makes certain investors successful or not so.
For fans of gold and silver, like myself, Tom gives his recommendations on why gold and how much we should own.
We could have gone on for hours, so if you listeners enjoy this episode please let me know! preferably leave a review on whichever platform you are using to listen e.g. on iTunes (I read it all) or simply email me. Anyways, without further ado, I present to you Tom Karadza
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Thanks for listening! Till next time!