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All Time Best Selling Canadian Real Estate Author Don R Campbell ep3 0

Feb 20, 2018

All Time Best Selling Canadian Real Estate Author Don R Campbell ep3

This week’s guest is none other than all time best selling Canadian real estate author Don R Campbell and spoiler alert, he’s a fan of the show!!

"I like your podcast, I think it’s real, it’s fresh, you have got good guests that area real life guests, it’s awesome” Don R Campbell; All Time, Best Selling, Canadian Real Estate Author

We cover a lot of subjects: politics, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency investing, stock investing strategy, we throw back to when Don wrote his first book and what major re-write he did, being real, the dangers of the real estate investing industry, who the best economist is (it’s not who you think), and so much more.

I hope you enjoy hearing my interview of one of the greatest minds in real estate as much as I enjoyed giving the interview.

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 then Google Toronto ACRE (A-C-R-E). Discount code is Erwinsguest. The adjacent hotel is already sold out so make sure to register ASAP with my discount code to avoid disappointment!!

link: http://info.reincanada.com/toronto-acre-2018

Discount code Erwinsguest

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How a Toronto Investor Improved His Net Worth by $2 Million with One Written Goal 0

Feb 13, 2018

Ryan Hindmarsh was referred to me by my then client James Maggs over six years ago. James is now the VP of my Coaching Services team and it’s funny how much can change in six years… For Ryan, he wrote a goal six years ago to buy investment property outside of his two family home in Toronto in order to make money in his sleep. He then reached out to his BFF James Maggs because he knew he was already investing and the result is assets minus liabilities equals $2 million without investing a dime of Ryan’s own money.

Ryan is a driven individual. He starred on his varsity basketball team for the University of Saskatchewan graduating in Kinesiology, training elite athletes including NHL’ers. Moved to Toronto to become an in demand personal trainer earning the highest fees I’ve heard of. Started a sports clinic business with zero clients and building it up to be one of Toronto’s leading clinics.

Then Ryan wanted a new challenge, after personally witnessing the transformation of his own business via leadership development courses, he joined the same leadership development company to inspire, motivate, lead and coach other entrepreneurs and their leadership teams.

Ryan is also our guest speaker this February 24th and he’s giving us a taste of what to expect. You too can attend by registering at www.HaltonREI.ca

Ryan’s coordinates:

Web: http://www.lmicanada.ca/Members/RyanHindmarsh.aspx

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

and no he’s not a fan of the distraction that is social media :D

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The CFP Who Recommends Real Estate 0

Feb 7, 2018

The Certified Financial Planner Who Recommends Real Estate

Kathleen Van Den Berg, aside from having a long name has an alphabet of academic designations after her name: MBA, Master of Business Administration; CFP, Certified Financial Planner; CLU, Certified Life Underwriter; I may be missing some other letters but I know Kathleen also has her mortgage license.

I first met Kathleen through an introduction by a mutual friend and I find her presentations and our conversations fascinating as she is the only fee based CFP who will talk to me hahaha. The fee based CFP’s I’ve been referred to simply don’t have time for me. First of all, the ones I’ve reached out to require 1-2 million of investable assets, typically not real estate since they don’t make money on real estate.

That’s where Kathleen is different, she’s open about her own real estate portfolio, the fantastic returns she’s getting and recommends some real estate to everyone even though she doesn’t directly make money selling real estate. She’s also highly educated and can apply financial planning theory and products that make sense to real estate investors hence the reasons we’re hired Kathleen for a portfolio review.

She has also agreed to come present at a future Halton REI event after snowmobiling season is over so make sure to register as live, in person presentations and meetings are best. To register, go to www.HaltonREI.ca

Without further ado, I give you Katheen Van Den Berg.

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The Future of Marketing: Search Engine Optimization w/ John Vuong 0

Jan 24, 2018

I was talking to one of my fellow students during a break during Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class who is still a student. He’s in electrical engineering so as always, I’m rhyming off unsolicited advice on fields of study to make money. I recommended learning about SEO (search engine optimization) and Block Chain as that’s the future right?

Why is SEO a big deal? Search engine optimization may be the reason you found me or one of my websites, but I’m merely a student of the subject, that’s why I sought out the teacher in Hamilton real estate investor and client of ours John Vuong. He’s an ultra successful entrepreneur because his firm, Local SEO Search is providing tons of value to small and medium sized businesses in driving traffic to their websites and landing pages to translate into more sales. John’s time is really expensive too, so he doesn’t even see the houses he’s buying as he has that kind of track record and success rate with his real estate team. John was kind enough to spare us an hour of his time to share his story here and give us advice on how we can all grow our businesses with search engine optimization.

Who is John Vuong? He’s a 15 year veteran of Sales and internet marketing, a hard worker and track record of being a top performer in every work position he’s held until a business opportunity presented itself and John took action in starting a new business in 2013 that is Local Seo Search Inc. He too attended the best University in Canada which happens to be the same as my alma matter, the University of Western Ontario, he’s a young dad and John started his own charity providing school materials to local schools for underprivileged kids.

So without further ado, I give you Hamilton real estate investor and SEO expert, John Vuong.

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The Millennial Retirement Plan: Seven Houses at Age 33 w Sarah Larbi 0

Jan 17, 2018

We are BAAACKKK! And we survived FOUR days and three nights in Las Vegas!!! LOL

I have a group of real estate buddies I hang out with for several reasons, we all like to have fun, we have flexible work schedules to meet during the week so we can reserve weekends for work and family, and most importantly we love to talk business and real estate. Business and pleasure wrapped into one, dropped in the middle of the Las Vegas strip for some masterminding and fun.

The masterminding could have been better as it took much of a back seat to the fun HAHAHA. The initial plan was to block off six hours allotting 30 mins for each member to share their 2017 accomplishments and 2018 goals. Unfortunately, like the vodka we were drinking, those 30 minutes were distilled down to 5-6 minutes each. That was all the time we had to spare. Those who presented first enjoyed a how you say, more sober audience...

We hit a club, gambled, ate many great $15 steaks, saw O: the Cirque de Soleil show, shot some automatic machine guns, raced some exotic cars, mine was a Lamborghini Huracan, zip lined the length of Freemont St., rode ATV’s in the Nevada desert, dined at the Heart Attack Grill, we fought zombies in a live urban warfare simulation, enjoyed a libation or twenty, etc… what we didn’t do was sleep much so I personally slept about 25 of the next 48 hours when we got home.

It all started with Westjet announcing direct flights to Las Vegas from Hamilton Airport and our return flight was only $300!!! We then price shopped everything and Groupon’d almost of the activities.

The real estate investor in me enjoyed touring through the hotels thinking how grateful I was other gamblers were paying for me to enjoy the beautiful casinos as my gambling losings only totalled $15. I don’t gamble. I mean it’s fun but I’m more interested in earning returns like investing in real estate.

The trip was simply epic. We shared a ton of laughs and a very, very memorable trip. I can’t recommend Hamilton Airport enough and I thought our hotel New York, New York was great for our frugal purposes.

On to this week’s podcast!

The Millennial Retirement Plan: Seven Houses at Age 33 w Sarah Larbi

Welcome ladies and gentlemen investors across Canada, the greatest country in the world. My name is Erwin Szeto, aka Mr. Hamilton bringing you the Truth About Real Estate Investing show for Canadians where it is my job to bring you the tactics, education and lessons of real estate multi-millionaires. What makes these people successful? These world class entrepreneurs don’t have superpowers so let’s find out together how they are killing it so we too may reproduce their results to create financial freedom for ourselves and those closest to us. So lets get to it!

Sarah Larbi, is technically a millennial but is a contradiction to the stereotypes as she’s always working at her job, portfolio or self development AND she doesn’t have any social media accounts. She’s a long term buy and hold investor whom focuses on cash flowing properties and buying under market value whenever possible. She has done this by being a market expert in one specific area; Brantford Ontario, and building a solid team of qualified professionals around her.

Sarah is also the co-founder of the SO REIT Club which holds monthly networking and real estate education meetings for investors. Sarah was also featured on the cover of the Toronto Star in June 2017 for being a young millennial building a portfolio of properties through hard work, dedication and commitment without the help of parents or relatives.

Show notes:

SOREITClub https://www.facebook.com/SoReitClub/

REIN’s ACRE (Erwin’s $300 discount code ERWINSGUEST): http://info.reincanada.com/toronto-acre-2018

Brantford Paralegal Wenda Allicock: http://www.wendaallicock.com/

Sarah’s website: https://sarahlarbi.com/ and email Sarah@sarahlarbi.com

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2017 In Review 0

Jan 4, 2018

Hello real estate investors!!

Welcome to another episode of the truth about real estate investing show.

Happy New Years to you all! We have many terrific guests lined up for 2018 so make sure to subscribe so you may learn their lessons to ensure you achieve your new years resolutions and I’m sure they include increased financial security and freedom!!

In case anyone is interested, the Real Estate Investment Network is hosting it’s annual weekend workshop call the Authentic Canadian Real Estate Systems (or ACRE for short) on March 2nd - 4th near Toronto Pearson Airport at the Pearson Convention Centre. For my friends and listeners to the show, REIN has provided me a discount code and I tested it just now to save you $300 per guest. If you’ve been to other events that are out there, the full retail price of $687 which has never gone up to my recollection, I’m a REIN member so my admission is included in my monthly fee…. but anyways, the full retail price is a fantastic deal already and my discount code of ERWINSGUEST will save you $300. Link: http://info.reincanada.com/toronto-acre-2018

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.

Anyways, on to my 2017 Year in Review

The Real Estate Market:

From January to May, the market rocketed up. It was near impossible to purchase a property in Hamilton as it was a regular occurrence to compete with double digit offers on the same property with limited supply and demand through the roof from Toronto folks and locals. St. Catharines grew in popularity for us as investors as competition was still fierce but nothing like Hamilton and we were renting at rates close to Hamilton’s. KWC was crazy hot as well and continues to be hot as multiple offers there are a regular occurrence. After May, and after the Foreign buyer tax becoming effective, the market slowed considerably for Hamilton and St. Catharines, exactly what us investors wanted though we noted less interest from investors in Summer and Fall. Oddly enough, that is when I purchased two properties, in the summer and fall, both as discounts from the Spring market. Right now the market feels more balance but prices remain up around 7-8% in our target markets compared to this time last year.

The Rental Market:

As a real estate investor we have two real estate markets to monitor: real estate prices as that determines the value of our portfolio and acquisition costs. Then there is the rental market and 2017 was very good to investors. From January to May, our investors were obtaining the highest rents we’ve ever seen in the markets we operate: mainly Kitchener Waterloo Cambridge, Hamilton, Brantford, Hamilton, St. Catharines, Niagara Region. In the Spring we were consistently seen rents of 1650 plus utilities for renovated three bedroom apartments and 1300+ for basement two bedrooms. Keep in mind about five-six years ago, we rented entire three bedroom houses for 1300+. The summer saw reduced demand as kijiji ad views and showings were way down and returned to a moderate level in the Fall. Myself, I like to review my rental ads and prices every two weeks. If I need to make an adjustment I will, most often to price or tweaking of the headline or ad copy. For the property we purchased in the summer, I needed to reduce the rent 3-4 times by $25-50 increments till we found a great tenant. For the property we closed on December 1st, knowing we were approaching the holidays and winter, the slowest market, I was ultra aggressive by advertising our rent $50 below market value. Evaluating a $50/month discount vs. being vacant for three months, an opportunity cost of $4,800, I chose the $50 discount and we rented to a customer who attended the first showing.

On the business side, we’ve grown considerably helping investors transact on over 100 properties in 2017. We’ve undergone many changes moving away from the Mr. Hamilton brand to the Halton Real Estate Investment Group as a necessity as we expanded our geographic coverage of top towns for investment in pursuit of cash flow. Our team has grown considerably as well in order to support the number of clients we support, apparently good news travels fast and when you do a great job helping to coach clients to financial success, they compliment you with referrals of friends and family for which we are forever grateful. Erika Spencer joined our team in late 2016 and has been a force to reckon with even with the birth of baby Owen in October and was back to work in November. Koukun Unosawa, Han Wang, Tammy Ditomaso all joined us in 2017 plus Paisley Mackenzie is coming onboard in early 2018 all as Junior Coaches. To ensure our newest team members received the same or better training I had given, James Tiberius Maggs was promoted to Vice President of Coaching Services with all of our coaches reporting directly to him.

On the Personal side of 2017, improving my health and energy levels took main stage. After years of pushing myself mentally and physically for years, I was burnt out. My body was giving up yet I continued to get by on excessive caffeine (coffee) and sheer will power. I took a couple tests while seeing a new doctor, Dr Callum Cowan, a high performance health specialist who works with pro athletes like NHL’ers, UFC fighters, high level executives, to repair the damage I’ve inflicted on myself to get to where I am today. I did a very restrictive cleanse in February and March avoiding my food sensitivities and to take care of a parasitic bacteria I picked up somewhere all the while competing in the Crossfit Open. I also started going to bed earlier. As you parents and entrepreneurs know, we can only control what we can control and I’ve found my mood and energy level is simply better with more sleep. My kids and family, my clients, my business deserve the best me so I started tracking my sleep with my wearable technology called a Whoop and app to ensure my peak performance. With all these changes, the quality of my work has improved as my mind is rested and more clear. I’m able to train more often which I love without having to take as many afternoon naps. The best part is I’m less cranky with my wife and kids so everyone wins with more sleep.

Dr Cowan is one of our guest speakers for the January Halton REI Group meeting on January 13th. His talk is titled "Feel Better, Function Better, Become a Phenom” and if you’ve seen him present before, don’t worry, the doctor has promised updates as the science of health is ever evolving!!

We will also be hosting a guest panel of investors on the subject of raising successful kids featuring Carol Dias, Margaret Plut, Rob Watson, Charles Wah and Mary Clements. All are successful in their careers and as investors, and they are happy to share the lessons so we can all achieve one of our ultimate goals, parents to successful children.

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

Till next time, Just do it, I believe in you.

Erwin

Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto Real Estate, Land Development Investor

This podcast is brought to you by the Halton Real Estate Investors Group. The goal of the Halton REI is to entice would-be real estate entrepreneurs to get off the couch, make things happen, and replicate the success of our multi-millionaire clients such as podcast guests Charles Wah, Andy Tran, Evelyn, Kaush, Cherry Chan, Michal Wywrot and Tim Collins. Our track record of coaching highly successful investors is extensive and we share our secrets, tips and tricks at Halton REI meetings. So if you are interested in travelling the path of least resistance to real estate wealth without ever swinging a hammer than this is the place for you. Go to HaltonREI.ca/signup to register and do so quickly to avoid disappointment as we have waitlisted folks many times and seats are limited. One of the secrets of success is to surround oneself with successful people and in my ten plus years of attending workshops and networking events, this is one of the best places to be and I hope to see you soon.

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My 2nd Property of 2017 0

Dec 7, 2017

Hello Halton, Toronto, Hamilton, Brantford, St. Catharines, Niagara, Welland, Thorold real estate investors!!!

It’s December so we’re into full swing holiday mode!!!! Christmas lights are clipped into our eavestroughs, our light up Santa got blown over on our front lawn, the usual stuffs! This year we started a new tradition, the Royal Botanical Garden’s Santa’s Signature Experience. My wife booked it after reading the raving views on a Facebook mom’s group and the experience lived up to the hype.

included is a return trip on The RBG Express (a train ride), hot chocolate and a cookie, storytelling and crafting with Santa’s helpers, admission to RBG for the day's activities, and of course your visit with Santa.

Santa’s Cabin was just off the hook, it had beautifully decorated fireplace, giant tree, the room in general and the star of the show, Santa!!!!!!!! Santa asked my kids if they knew they had brought Christmas magic with them. My kids had no clue what he was talking about then Santa reached behind my daughters ear and illuminated a light within his glove between his index finger and thumb. The look of astonishment on my kids faces made me nearly lose my composure. I couldn’t have been happier with the experience but my daughter had more for us in store.

A few days later, we asked my daughter what she wanted for Christmas and she said “I want a Lego Cookie Monster to give away at the Basket Brigade.”

Mission accomplished!!!!! Christmas can end now and I’d be happy. Part of our objective with our charity is to teach the kids to be selfless and I believe the best teaching is done by showing, not telling. My daughter is not even 4 years old and she knows the meaning of Christmas. Proud parent moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here she is with Anna and Elsa dolls (from the Frozen movie) we bought with our own money to give away on our personal deliveries.

In case you’re interested in an opportunity to teach your kids and to give back, we need a few more packers and in need of 25 more delivery drivers. For packers, we have 85 registered and we are capping at 100 so to avoid disappointment, please register ASAP.

My Favourite Financial Planner

This week we have something different, like we do every week! This week a very special and exciting guest in my favourite financial planner, Kathleen Van De Berg, a Certified Financial Planner Wealth Strategist who actually invests in real estate and maybe the only one I know who includes investing in real estate in strategizing her clients portfolios for significantly great wealth. Have you heard of permanent cash value insurance? Before meeting Kathleen, I had not either so stay tuned on why we investors need it and other tips and secrets Kathleen normally only shares with the smart, rich money.

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

Till next time, Just do it, I believe in you.

Erwin

Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto, Land Development, Halton Real Estate Investor

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Gold Award & Economic Update 0

Nov 28, 2017

Hello Halton, Toronto, Hamilton, Brantford, St. Catharines, Niagara, Welland, Thorold real estate investors!!!

This week we close on another investment property, our 2nd 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 awarded my gold pin for 17 properties. Don and the whole REIN executive and members have been a huge part of my journey and 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’ve been around, you know $687 is a great return on investment knowing other organizations charge $1,500 for a weekend event and I’ve invested thousands more for other business events.

Funny story about the REIN meeting, as I was getting ready and heading out the door to drive with my buddy Charles Wah to the REIN meeting, normally, without a second thought I wear dress shoes. For some reason I wanted to wear my all red Nikes, specifically Kobe Bryant’s knowing that Richard Dolan, President of REIN wears equally funky shoes some days. Later that night, as Richard called me to stage to accept my award, he jokingly accused me of raiding his closet and stealing his shoes :P Unprofessional of me to wear basketball shoes? Maybe but fellow members and Don Campbell were complimenting me on both my shoe game and award so whatever. I’m not sure there is a lesson there but I was just being me, a big basketball fan and wearing comfortable shoes.

Richard Dolan asked me what my secret was and if anyone can accomplish the same. Yes, anyone can do this, being a REIN member has helped me, and the secret to success? Anyone who makes investing a priority will succeed.

Economic Update

Welcome ladies and gentlemen investors across the greatest country in the world. My name is Erwin Szeto aka Mr. Hamilton bringing 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! This week we have the economic update presentation I delivered in October to my Halton Real Estate Investors Group. I did it in one take so it’s not quite polished but if you wanted insight into what drives my decision making to continue to acquire investment property while having very little diversity in my portfolio, in my opinion, those with assets will create the most the wealth and if I don’t, well that’s a scary alternate ending I’m doing everything in my power to avoid.

To Listen:

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

Google Play: http://goo.gl/CAM5Mn

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

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

Till next time, Just do it, I believe in you.

Erwin

Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto Real Estate, Land Development Investor

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Capital Gains Exemption On Rental Property 0

Nov 15, 2017

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 and I recommend you catch USS if they’re ever playing a gig near you. The both shows in Hamilton and my friends Mike Gillespie, St Catharines investor extraordinaire; John Roumanis, Hamilton investor of $600,000 in 6 Years fame; and Steve had a great time.

Here is a youtube from 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 with a liquor license. 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.

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 of course 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.

Anyways, I walk 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-on 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. And as always, everyones’ situation is different so do please contact your professional Chartered Accountant specializing in real estate investments.

To Listen:

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

Google Play: http://goo.gl/CAM5Mn

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

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

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

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How To Prepare for the Housing Crash 0

Nov 9, 2017

Hello Halton, Toronto, Hamilton, Brantford, St. Catharines, Niagara, Welland, Thorold real estate investors!!!

What a terrific weekend in sports for Canadian sports!! My Saturday started with spectating a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu tournament to support my teammates from http://www.mnunesbjj.com/ who competing. I’m still a beginner at the sport so I was there to be a cheerleader and to experience a competition as a spectator before I sign up to fight grown men in 2018. Yup, I’m committed to competing at least once and like everything I do, I’ll take a pragmatic approach to training in both the sport, my strength and conditioning, my diet as I’ll need to lose pounds to ensure I’ll be the largest competitor in my weight class. Just like my real estate, I prefer to have every advantage in my favour especially when I turn 40 and will be the youngest in the Seniors, 40 year old and above division :D.

Speaking of having every advantage, my clients hired me to sell their flip property, a gorgeous 2,600 square foot house on one acre. To best present the property we recruited the best stager, best photographer, true tour video so you feel like you’re there and drone pictures to properly capture what a lovely property this flip is. Check it out here: http://virtualviewing.ca/mm16b/4078-aberdeen-rd-beamsville-u/

Saturday night of course was the return of the greatest of all time in combat sports, Georges St. Pierre who won the Middleweight Championship in shocking form. You can’t tell from the picture but we were all jumping up and down when Georges connected with that short left hook. We were so loud we woke up Cherry 😛

In attendance were some of my investor friends: Mike Iuliano, Andy Tran, Charles Wah and Mary Clements. Can you tell I enjoy mixing business and pleasure? Makes for more interesting conversations and they’re all great company. Special thanks to Mike I from bring nacho ingredients from his garden for some of the best nachos I’ve ever had. It made a great night even better.

Sunday at the TFC Eastern playoffs semi final, second leg was a crazy game, Toronto had all the best scoring chances in the 1st half then gave up trying on offence in the 2nd half. There was a million penalty cards handed out, the crowd was all over the ref including beers being thrown in his direction. We lost the game but move on to the eastern final due to away goals tie breaker. Can’t wait for that game!

This week we have something different, we have a returning guest in Ryan Carr because him and I were masterminding two weeks ago and he was explaining to me how he is bearish on the market. We both agree a correction is coming or we may have already hit bottom based on some of the headlines but Ryan is believing the correction will be worse than I expect. With doomsayers, the strategy is obvious, sell all your real estate and rent. Not many people put their money where their mouth is like for MP Garth Turner who correct called a correction in 2008 but we all know where the market has gone since then. He may have been incorrect but at least he practiced what he preached.

That brings us to Ryan Carr, he’s back on the show to share with all of us how he’s preparing for a steep correction in the short term and as always, the show is Truth About Real Estate Investing and I want to bring you all opinions and experts so you too may maximize your financial success, have kids that graduate university debt free, support your favourite church and charities etc… Ryan is a bright young man investing in 20 properties in the last 2 years and his only formal training is in being a mechanic.

For the long version story of Ryan, simply rewind back two episodes or click here: http://www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/mechanic-invested-20-properties-two-years/

So without further ado, I give you Ryan Carr

To Listen:

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

Google Play: http://goo.gl/CAM5Mn

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

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

To reach out to Ryan:

website: https://rwcarrinvestment.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010830488618

Ryan's article on shed investing

Article Cdn Real Estate Wealth Oct2017

Till next time, Just do it, I believe in you.

Erwin

Hamilton, St. Catharines, Toronto Real Estate, Land Development Investor

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The Inner Change Maker of Real Estate w/ Jay Wong 0

Nov 1, 2017

We have a very interesting guest this week with my friend THE JAY WONG, who is a real estate investor but he’s more well known for his ultra successful, rated #1 Self-Help podcast theinnerchangemaker.com on iTunes. I know if you’re listening, you may enjoy my podcast, however Jay gets 50-60 times as many downloads as I do so you can just imagine how good the theinnerchangemaker.com is. Jay’s mission is to create empowering media that summarizes all of these great lessons covered in on his show by other successful Change makers, in hopes that these combined journeys will help business owners grow their business through online marketing and elevating their leadership.

If you’re a real estate entrepreneur or an entrepreneur in general, I know you’ll find Jay’s lessons useful in helping to build your authority and raise joint venture capital.

Jay’s past guests include leading educators in self development: Bob Proctor, Grant Cardone, and Philip Mckernan. From the feature image for this episode, you can see Jay and his podcast were featured at Toronto Downtown’s busiest intersection,Yonge and Dundas square,so without further ado, I give you The Jay Wong.

To reach out or follow Jay:

website: theinnerchangemaker.com

YouTube Channel: JayWongTV, link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeR0FLjRFFLqY5nLPAmc0dA

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How A Mechanic Invested in 20 Properties in TWO Years 0

Oct 26, 2017

I’m excited to bring to you, all the way from Oshawa, Ontario, Ryan Carr, a trained Mechanic who was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and turned to real estate at first renovating his own investment properties and when he couldn’t scale himself working on the tools, he hired full time contractors. If you’ve been renovating or looking to renovate like I have, you know how hard it is to get the attention of contractors with this housing boom going on. Ryan’s solution is to hire folks full time and he’s keeping them busy as he’s purchased 20 houses in the last two years, all requiring varying degrees of renovations including the vertical duplex split. A horizontal split would be the traditional basement apartment duplex whereas Ryan will install a vertical wall/s to divide a property to increase cash flow by $300-500/month. Ryan will share some tips on when to vertical split and how to source 20 properties, mostly private deals not on MLS.

This interview with Ryan was an eye opener to me as are all of our guests but this is the first time my podcast has been required listening for my team the Halton REI Team.

So without further ado, I give you Ryan Carr

website: https://rwcarrinvestment.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010830488618

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I Quit! Trading Security for Independence With Cash Flow Investing and Mindset - Rene Masse 0

Oct 18, 2017

This week I’m excited to bring to you, all the way from Kingston, Ontario, Rene Masse who was been working with tenants for over 20 years as he did grow up along side them living in his home. Rene has invested for 10 years having reached the significant milestone of earning $5,000 cash flow per month from student rentals after six years and he did so investing only $14,000 of his own money! That is a pretty good return on investment considering Rene quit his teaching job three months giving up the steady paycheque and pension and job security for the entrepreneurial life. This is after years of University and Teacher’s College at Queen’s University and graduating with debt!! Rene definitely has no interest in being average and is truly living life to his fullest as you’ll see from the interview where I did not ask one single question that I had prepared. Rene also produces a series of entertaining and educational videos on the subject of real estate investing and he has extensive experience in hiring university students to work in his business and video production and he’ll share how he does it. So without further ado, I present to you, Rene Masse

Website: https://www.getbetterreturns.ca/

on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getbetterreturns.ca/

Thank you for listening! If you enjoy the podcast please subscribe on stitcher, Google Play or iTunes OR I can send you an email when each episode is published right to your inbox! Simply go to TruthAboutRealEstateInvesting.ca and enter your email address and I will continue to deliver to you stories of inspiration, success, lessons to help you on your journey to financial freedom. Till next time, this is Erwin Szeto telling you to just do it and I believe in you.

This podcast is brought to you by the Halton Real Estate Investors Group. Since 2010, I helped many people including first time investors make millions of dollars with their side hustle of investing in nice homes in the nicer areas west of Toronto such as Burlington, Hamilton, St. Catharines, Niagara Region, Brantford, and Cambridge, Ontario. The goal of the Halton REI is to entice would-be real estate entrepreneurs to get off the couch, make things happen, and replicate the success of our multi-millionaire clients. Those who choose to work with the Halton REI Team will have the opportunity to be coached by a highly skilled and highly successful investor coach who has walked the walk having owned numerous properties, earning thousands in cash flow each month who is licensed to trade in real estate. Listeners to this show can go to www.haltonrei.ca/signup to register but when I checked this morning, we have only 8 seats left so do register as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. One of the secrets of success is to surround oneself with successful people and in my ten plus years of attending workshops and networking events, this is one of the best places to be and I hope to see you soon.

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How a Failing Student Became a Multi-Millionaire in Real Estate 0

Oct 4, 2017

This week I’m excited to bring to you my friend and client Roger Auger who grew up in a poor and less than ideal household in a bad part of town. From an early age, Roger learned he had to hustle to make money to pay his parents’ mortgage because what else should a 13 year old be doing. But he struggled in school and resorted to blackmailing his high school teachers to allow him to graduate or endure another year him back. Roger tried college but that didn’t work out but he never stopped working hard to earn enough to buy investment property. Now at 13 properties, he’s done quite well for himself amassing considerably more wealth than many people I know with Masters degrees and on top of that, he has a heart of gold as Roger is the co-founder of the HamiltonBasketBrigade.com, wait till you hear the story about him and Josh delivering Christmas dinners. So without further ado, I give your Roger Auger

Web: http://www.augerproperties.ca/

Email: roger@augerproperties.ca

Sorry for the interruption during the introduction, that was my daughter bursting into my office to inform me the electricians were finished installing our new hot tub. A new hot tub paid for by one of our investment properties. That is the dream after all, to have your assets pay for your liabilities. If you enjoyed the show, please click subscribe and I really appreciate 5 star reviews on iTunes. I read every comment and and grateful for all the fans of the show, thank you for the kind words from everyone who has left reviews or emailed me. If you’d like new episodes delivered to your email as soon as they are available, simply go to http://www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/ and type in your email address. Till next time. Just do it! And I believe in you.

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Creating a Pension in 4 Years vs 40 Years 0

Sep 27, 2017

This week I’m excited to bring to you my friend and client Kaush Nanubhai (pronounced Koh-shh Na-new-bye) who started off buying condos in downtown Toronto as a young professional Accountant as he described buying a condo better use of his disposable income than drinking and partying. Many years later and having bigger goals in mind including more income and improved lifestyle, he’s now built himself a sizeable portfolio now at 11 investment properties, acquiring eight of them in the last four years with plans and joint venture partners for many more. Learn about what Kaush wishes he could go back and do over, what drives an already successful professional like Kaush to do even more, how he’s created more time for what’s important, time with family and taking care of his health. Kaush invests in student rentals and legal basement suites in Hamilton, St Catharines, Welland, and Niagara On the Lake.

Links to stuffs mentioned

Durham REI: https://durhamrei.com/

Action Taker Program: https://durhamrei.com/coaching/ (I’ve checked with Quentin, he has room for one so if you need an introduction please let me know)

REIN http://www.reincanada.com/

Halton REI (Erwin’s networking group) www.HaltonREI.ca

To get in touch with Kaush, email is best: knanubhai@gmail.com

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 http://www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca/ and type in your email address. Till next time. Just do it! And I believe in you.

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Real Estate Developer Charles Wah Update 0

Sep 15, 2017

This week I’m excited to bring to you the return of Charles Wah, you might remember him from our land development interview six months ago and he’s fresh off the set of Scott McGilvray’s newest show to give you all an update on his land development projects and the new investments and building development projects he has on the go. We’ll take a sneak peak at the behind the scenes of HGTV’s biggest star, how Charles spends his off time, and we will share our thought’s and lessons from the phenomenal Archangel Summit. It was so good, we already purchased our VIP tickets for the Archangel Summit in September 2018. You want to know WHY this super successful and very young investor does what he does? Then stay tuned….

http://archangelsummit.com/

Register for the Halton Real Estate Investors Group Meeting Sept 23rd, Sheridan College Conference Centre here: http://www.haltonrei.ca/event-schedule/

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How a Single Dad Refinanced His Home for Multiple Down Payments 0

Aug 3, 2017

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 have 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 so plus his advice on books to read and clubs to join.

Recommendations by Nick:

Real Estate Investing in Canada: Creating Wealth with the ACRE System by Don R Campbell

http://a.co/fan4HoE

Secrets of the Canadian Real Estate Cycle: An Investor's Guide

http://a.co/8KE2R90

The Property Management Toolbox: A How-To Guide for Ontario Real Estate Investors and Landlords

http://a.co/g5hMFsT

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

www.haltonrei.ca

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

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.

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More Tax For Us Investors 0

Jul 25, 2017

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.“

source: http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/jack-mintz-morneaus-tax-changes-wont-just-hurt-the-rich-but-they-will-hurt-growth/wcm/ba296d67-6ba5-4866-969b-2a0c81541844

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 why 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/tax-changes-entrepreneur/

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://realestatetaxtips.ca/book/

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Buying The First of Three Properties in 2017 0

Jul 10, 2017

This week, we’re doing something different, we do not have a guest but rather 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.

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.

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Massive Cash Flow in Small Town Investing with Elizabeth Kelly 0

Jun 21, 2017

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 so we may learn from their experience, so we too can duplicate their success, and inspire YOU to take action for an early and comfortable retirement. Even better would be investments to pay for your children’s education, down payments for their first homes, and to support your favourite charities.

This week we have an exceptional guest in Elizabeth Kelly who has been investing for over 12 years built a large portfolio of buy, rent and hold investment properties with her husband and 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:

http://www.kirklandlakeapartments.ca/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SandstoneKL/, https://www.facebook.com/Rent2HomeCanada/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-kelly-549b6b1b/

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How to Increase Cash Flow with Basement Apartments with Andy Tran 0

Jun 1, 2017

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 pasts from faraway lands, Don Campbell who resides in British Columbia, Pierre Paul Turgeon who’s from Alberta but 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 and have been friends since 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.

Erwin’s preferred cheap headphones with mic:

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00HVVONP4/ref=cfb_at_prodpg

Andy’s website http://www.suiteadditions.com/#home-section

You can download Andy’s book here: http://www.suiteadditions.com/start-here/

And contact Andy here: http://www.suiteadditions.com/contact/

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How to Graduate to Apartment Building Investing with Pierre Paul Turgeon 0

May 23, 2017

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 so we may learn from their experience, so we too 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, why apartment building investment makes sense for any portfolio and 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 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.

http://www.multifamilyinvestingcanada.com/mrhamilton

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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 Mr Hamilton’s 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 Mr Hamilton 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 Mr Hamilton’s Inner Circle Meeting. Immediately following each meeting is an optional,highly recommended Mr Hamilton Street Smart Tour where you are guided by one of Mr Hamilton’s 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.

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Buy Apartment Building, Fix, Rent, Ski, Repeat w. Kevin Bunzeluk 0

May 16, 2017

Kevin started investing in 2007 with a vacant, run down six plex that he purchased with no money down in Thunder Bay. 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, and 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 hence 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 so without further ado, I give you Kevin Bunzeluk

Kevin created a special offer for listeners of my show

When you sign up at lifestylehousing.com/offer you will get:

- Kevin’s ebook, 'The Ultimate Tenant Screening Guide'

- A few of the presentations from the life style housing summit

- 20% off the LifeStyle Housing Summit all access pass

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 in Niagara Region to transact on hundreds of investment properties in turn producing several millionaire clients. The strategy works so well, our clients’ success has been noticed resulting 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 Mr Hamilton's 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 winners. Fast forward today, we host monthly Mr Hamilton 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 Mr Hamilton's Inner Circle Meeting. Immediately following each meeting is an optional by highly recommended Mr Hamilton Street Smart Tour where you are guided by one of Mr Hamilton's highly successful investor and 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.

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How a New Investor Acquired Five Duplexes in Six Months 0

Apr 24, 2017

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 acquiring 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.

Previous to 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 it helped, how her investing strategy will insulate her from market corrections.

Coaching recommended by Amy: https://durhamrei.com/coaching/

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Breakthrough Coaching and Living your Purpose w/ Oliver Manalese 0

Apr 13, 2017

Hello ladies and gentlemen investors from across Canada, this week we have a special guest in an old friend Oliver Manalese. I’ve known Oliver for many years dating back to my first year at REIN in 2008 and 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

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 visit: http://www.olivermanalese.com/

Connect with Oliver on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/OliverManalese

Oliver’s podcast: http://www.olivermanalese.com/show

Complimentary sessions available at http://www.olivermanalese.com/

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

https://www.amazon.ca/Last-Word-Power-Tracy-Goss/dp/038547492X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492093380&sr=1-1&keywords=Last+word+on+power

War of Art by Steven Pressfield

https://www.amazon.ca/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1936891026/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492093420&sr=1-1&keywords=war+of+art+by+steven+pressfield

The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida

https://www.amazon.ca/Way-Superior-Man-Spiritual-Challenges/dp/1591792576/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492093507&sr=1-1&keywords=the+way+of+the+superior+man

Sponsor and ACRE Discount Code

This episode is brought to you by the Real Estate Investment Network, or REIN for short. I’ve personally been a REIN member since 2008 and in Toronto on April 21^st-23^rd is the well renowned ACRE program. ACRE stands for Authentic, Canadian, Real Estate and it’s the best weekend of real estate training I’ve attended. Additionally, it’s not thousands of dollars like other, similar events. I like ACRE weekend so much this will be my tenth time in attendance. The education is that good and the networking is even better!

As a special gift to our listeners, founding partner of REIN, Don Campbell, has provided you all a discount code to save $300 off the public’s price at $687 – which is already fantastic value! You listeners only pay $387 by entering discount code ERWINSGUEST when you purchase ticket from reincanada.com. Again, that’s April 21^st-23^rd for the best weekend in real estate investment training for $387. Link: http://info.reincanada.com/toronto-acre-2017#pricing

Thanks for reading (and listening!) and hope to see you at ACRE!

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