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 [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 21, 2009
Investigating the Real Estate Market in Austin, Texas
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 [...]
May 10, 2009
Law of Attraction and Real Estate
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 [...]
May 6, 2009
You Get What You Focus On – In Real Estate and Mountain Biking
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 [...]
May 4, 2009
Researching the Location for Your Next Rental Property
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.
May 1, 2009
You Only Need to Get Good at Two Things in Real Estate
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 [...]
