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Free Real Estate Investing Workshop in Kitchener Waterloo

I’m happy to announce that I am opening registration of my upcoming Millionaire Real Estate Investment workshop to the general public. There are only 20 spots, and a little under half of the seats are spoken for already (translation: ACT NOW, SEATS GOING FAST).
If you’ve ever wondered about how you can get […]

5 Skills That Will Make You Rich

The great Jim Rohn (he’s the one on the left in this picture) says “don’t wish things were easier, wish you were better.”
Life is no walk in the park. We are all presented with challenges that we must overcome. Winter always comes. In order to succeed at a very high […]

How much is bad advice costing you? Too Much!

About a month ago I met a new client of mine, a very smart young guy. He bought his first real estate property 3 years ago for about $175K, put some ’sweat equity’ into it, and it’s worth about $250,000 today. My mortgage broker Jeff Reitzel had an approval in hand to refinance […]

WARNING: If you think an RESP will pay for your baby’s college education, you’re wrong

Last week at Toastmasters, our club president gave a speech about Registered Education Savings Plans (RESP).
He determined that the cost of a 4 year post secondary degree, away from home, will be well over $100,000 in 15 years (he estimated as high as $180,000, but that may have been a US statistic). The RESP […]

When investing in real estate, use professionals !

An interesting situation came up recently while I was pursuing an investment property for a client in Kitchener Waterloo, Ontario.
Sally is from out of town, but she has recently started to move her equity into the Kitchener Waterloo area in the form of real estate investment property.
She had a mortgage broker she used when she […]

Is your portfolio ready to reitre ?

Back when I was working in a large financial management brokerage (which means I was working with a team of stock brokers), I remembered being shocked at how small people’s portfolios were when they approached retirement.
A very common situation was:
Married couple, sixty years old
Making $100,000+ year combined
$500,000 in RRSP and other stocks, bonds and mutual […]

FREE Workshop - How to retire earlier, better and warmer through Real Estate Investing

That’s right, it’s time for another one of my famous Millionaire Real Estate Investor workshops, where we explore proven models for building wealth and helping people reach and exceed their retirement goals.
You will learn how Millionaire Real Estate Investors have built wealth; see the long term difference between investing in stocks and real estate; learn […]

Now that’s a funny shirt

Via Scoble

(photo of Dave McClure from Jeremiah Owyang’s Flickr stream)
PS -  What funny t shirts have you seen around? Snap a picture of one and I will feature it here !

Facebook - past the tipping point

Malcolm Gladwell writes that the tipping point is “that moment in an epidemic when a virus reaches critical mass. It’s the boiling point. It’s the moment on the graph when the line starts to shoot straight upwards.”
Facebook has passed the tipping point, and is now being used by a large majority of my clients, friends, […]

Trifecta of Wisdom

That Guy with the Nametag, Scott Ginsberg has some great advice, all in threes:
8. Boutiques, not mega-marts.
16. Discipline, not luck.
34. Finest, not first.
75. Unique, not different.
As always, Scott includes a call to action:
LET ME ASK YA THIS…
What are your best three words of advice?
LET ME SUGGEST THIS…
Share them here!
Scott, they’re here:
Ask to receive
Build it […]

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