Engage Today 2009 I am an expert at one thing

Engage Today Day 1
“I’m an expert at one thing – and that is being me” – Sean Stephenson
It’s late…  and I should be asleep but I am energized. Today was a gift. A gift I wish I could somehow share with everyone that wasn’t here to share in this spectacular event.
After listening to F.W. DeKlerk [...]

You Can Make a Million Dollars in 90 Days

My Dad had been listening to a real estate guru presentation he’d ordered on a CD and he told me that this guy:
… owes the banks $25 million dollars on commercial properties he owns, didn’t put in a penny of his own cash and he only works 5 hours a week on his real estate [...]

Thinking of Flipping Real Estate? Here’s a few things to consider…

Awhile back we shared the video diary of our rental property renovation project …  I was just clearing out some videos and found this little clip we hadn’t shared. It’s not that it’s a really exciting video – it’s not. That is probably why I didn’t include it in the video diary in the first [...]

Do We Need Another Real Estate Search Site?

I’ve said it before … I am jealous of the fabulous sites that our American neighbours have for searching real estate. For example, I love Trulia.com.
I often find myself searching U.S. properties just because I enjoy being on the site.
We have nothing that compares in Canada … and every time I hear of a new [...]

Use the Right Real Estate Investing Technique for YOU!

Early on as real estate investors our only objective was to find properties we could buy for no money down with tons of cash flow…  And while we always put in a few dollars to the properties here and there, we found some really good ones. One property we bought generated nearly $1000/month in positive [...]

Rental Ad Scams and Spam

Sometimes when you place an ad on Craigslist or Kijiji for a rental property you never know what kind of responses you’ll get. Sometimes you get a simple one line response from a prospective tenant saying:
“When can I see it?”
Other times you’ll get someone’s life story. I received a lovely email from a couple in [...]

Buy Real Estate and Wait – The Old Saying is True

As we were doing a final walk around the area of one of the properties we were about to close on in Kelowna, BC I wanted to stop and record this short video. You see … the old saying really is true:

Don’t wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and [...]

The #1 Secret to Buying $1 Million in Real Estate in Just 12 Months

Thanks to real estate investing, I no longer have to work
full-time. If I want to go hiking in the mountains with my dog in
the middle of the day, I can. If Dave and I want to pop up to
Whistler to ski, we do it mid-week to avoid the crowds.
That’s now. But when we were just [...]