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Archive for May, 2009

Rental Property Renovations … a diary of sorts

Posted in Property Management, Video, real estate, tagged , , , on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Sometimes you have to just bite the bullet and put some money and sweat equity into a property … and that’s what we’ve found with one of our units we own in Nanaimo. As it began to look like we’d have a vacant unit on our hands for a third month in a row, we [...]

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Investigating the Real Estate Market in Austin, Texas

Posted in Video, investing, real estate, tagged , , , on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Austin is the capital city of Texas so not surprisingly, the government is a major employer in Austin. It’s also the home of Dell, the flagship Whole Foods store and a host of other good sized companies. The University also hosts 40,000 students which creates an additional boost to the population and to the services [...]

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Law of Attraction and Real Estate

Posted in Law of Attraction, Personal Development, investing, real estate, tagged , , , on May 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been super frustrated with the never ending problems we’ve been having with a property we have in Toronto. We spent nearly $10,000 doing the roof, repairing a ceiling, and then painting. It felt good to get the roof fixed and do the repairs to the ceiling but the company I hired has been a [...]

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You Get What You Focus On – In Real Estate and Mountain Biking

Posted in Guest Articles, investing, real estate, tagged , , , on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ok – I know that rock doesn’t look very scary in this picture, but I can assure you it is a big rock! This picture was taken on my very FIRST single track mountain bike ride in the north shore mountains in Vancouver. I’d probably only been mountain biking two or three other times in [...]

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Researching the Location for Your Next Rental Property

Posted in investing, real estate, rental property locations, tagged , , , , on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

While researching Kelowna, BC as a potential market to purchase investment properties in, I recorded a short video to help explain what I look for in a market. In this video, I focus on just one of the elements within our Location Research Checklist: Healthy Housing Economy.

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You Only Need to Get Good at Two Things in Real Estate

Posted in investing, lease option investing, real estate, tagged , , , , on May 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Today we are sharing a special article with you from fellow Canadian real estate investors and investing experts Nick & Tom Karadza. We’ve often shared stories about the $20,000 we spent on real estate programs early on in our investing days … and we thought that the advice Nick and Tom are offering here is [...]

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