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How Bird Dogs Can Make You A Multi- Millionaire

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

How Bird Dogs Can Make You A Multi- Millionaire As a full time Canadian real estate investor, we can never put all of our eggs in one basket. By that I mean we can not leave our career exclusively up to our realtors to bring us deals. There are only so many good deals that realtors can [...]

How To Establish Property Values In Less Than One Second

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

How To Establish Property Values In Less Than One Second As a full time Canadian real estate investor, we may be recieving calls at any time of the day or night from someone responding to our marketing. The call may come from a city where we are unfamiliar about the property values, but we have to be able [...]

Bandit Signs Part 2

Monday, February 27th, 2012

Bandit Signs Part 2 If you missed the previous article – Bandit Signs As a full time Canadian real estate investor, we must be continuously looking for new ways to drive business to us. We have to realize that we are our business and we must be responsible for our business. Our time is our [...]

Advertising Tips: Using Cash As Bait

Monday, February 27th, 2012

Advertising Tips: Using Cash As Bait As a full time Canadian real estate investor, we must realize that we can’t rely on other people like realtors to get us the majority of our deals. If we stick to the MLS in order to build our portfolio in a “conventional” manner, we may either run out of money or [...]

Top Ten Marketing Tips For Real Estate Investors

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Top Ten Marketing Tips For Real Estate Investors As a full-time Canadian real estate investor, we need to create massive and passive income for ourselves. We cannot only rely on a realtor to help build our portfolio, otherwise we could become broke  or our portfolio could grow very slowly. We must however rely on our marketing [...]

How To Double Your Rent

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

How To Double Your Rent As a Canadian real estate investor and landlord, are you are getting fair market value rent for your units? You generally are subject to a certain amount of rental increase in most provinces, which is set out by provincial governing bodies. Feeling handcuffed? You are effectively handcuffed to the amount of [...]

How To Effectively Pick Your Tenants

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

How To Effectively Pick Your Tenants As a full-time Canadian real estate investor and landlord, one needs to choose their tenants wisely. Why? Because we want to set ourselves up to have as little stress involved in our business as possible. We want to spend time making more deals, making a massive and passive income [...]

The Suicide Clause

Monday, February 20th, 2012

The Suicide Clause As a full-time Canadian real estate investor, we must be very aware of the types of mortgages that we take. During our time as an investor, we will  do deals where we do not take the mortgage ourselves. In other words, we may joint venture with someone who does the qualifying. We [...]

How To Get Rid Of Bad Tenants Part 2

Monday, February 20th, 2012

How To Get Rid Of Bad Tenants Part 2 In the last article I spoke about the conventional way of how most landlords take care of tenant defaults or other reasons for eviction.

Mortgage Jargon – Part 5

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

Mortgage Jargon – Part 5 If you missed the previous article – Mortgage Jargon – Part 4 We will continue in our series of Mortgage jargon. As full time Canadian real estate investors, we need to utilize the following definitions as part of our everyday language. Estopple Certificate This is a document that outlines the [...]

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