The Truth About Real Estate Investing... For Canadians

John owns over 10 investment properties including single family duplex conversions, small apartment buildings, he’s well known in the investment real estate community as a Realtor in Barrie, Ontario and surrounding areas.  I first met John at a real estate networking group about ten years ago because he loves to learn and network just like I do.   Last year, John took the beta version of Stock Hacker Academy and in 2020, his return at the time of recording was 57%. If you would like to see a free demonstration of Stock Hacking via Zoom, I’ll do doing one or two of them this January.  As many past guests have shared, this skill is a game changer hence I’m on a mission to share this knowledge with as many people as possible, no different than real estate.  This is a new year in 2021.  2020 did a pretty good job letting us know what the best investments are.  Real Estate for building wealth. Stock Hacking for cash flow.  You need both. If you’re not sure which one is best for you that’s OK, we offer free trainin

This week we have my old friend Martin Kuev on the show.  Martin like many had a young family, a well paying job in corporate, started a side hustle investing in condos and progressed into renovating single family homes to create basement apartments, then again levelling up into serious apartment building renovations for highest and best values. Definitely innovative stuff so I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did. We talk about life, the challenges of Martin leaving his executive corporate job just after having twins, Martin’s new side hustle he learnt from the Stock Hacker Academy and earned him six figures in his first year, and we chat a bit about crypto currency as Martin’s close friend is high up at Ethereum. As I record this, the date is New Year and I’d like to take a moment to say farewell to the year 2020. The pandemic changed our daily lives and will continue to do so in 2021. I am grateful to have my investopreneur community, our clients, students of Stock Hacker Academy and you the list

Her story is pretty amazing but she wouldn’t tell you it is. Khatera was born in Afghanistan, a war torn country but thankfully her family was able to immigrate to Germany, from there Khatera moved to the greatest country in the world and became interested in real estate.  She became a real estate agent, then built an award winning team, started investing in condos and graduated to apartment buildings East of Toronto.  As someone who loves to learn, in the fall of 2019, before knowing what a stock even was, she took our program called the Stock Hacker Academy and since then, I’m pretty sure Khatera’s Stock Hacking returns are better than mine. If you’re locked down like we are and interested in learning a life skill that cash flows, I’m hosting free demos over Zoom and will be sharing a preview of the Stock Hacker Academy this January.  Go to https://www.stockhackeracademy.ca/demo to register.  This isn’t for everyone and success is never guaranteed but I’m so proud of our students like Khatera. Like recent g

Speaking of rich friends, this week our guest is Rene Masse, his parents were school teachers, Rene went to school to become a teacher, didn’t last a week and became a full time contractor and real estate investor.  His focus was largely student rentals and no more on converting single family homes into two family homes. Rene is also a successful graduate of www.stockhackeracademy.ca where he’s achieved over $100,000 in returns this year, his rookie year as a stock hacker and for anyone interested in learning more about how to create a six figure life skill, I will be hosting demos again in the new year, to register go to https://www.stockhackeracademy.ca/demo I present to you Rene Masse

Dave Knight is a full time Police Officer who outside the workplace has been able to grow a multi-million dollar rental income portfolio who has since written a book, audio book and created a course intended for first responders to expose to the many possibilities to invest in real estate. Full disclosure, Dave is a past client of ours, a friend and like all my friends I’m teaching him stock hacking so he may share that with his community as well.  Afterall, everyday heroes need six figure side hustles too and thank you to all first responders for your service.

Our guest this week is David Sun, who is a Princeton graduate, yes he’s American, an engineer who does engineering type stuffs for his day job and he has three serious side hustles, four if you count that he owns a single rental property… I guess that counts. Four side hustles. David is a general partner in an investment real estate syndicate, a structure required for multiple investors and large projects such as a student rental residence with hundreds of bedrooms. David is a part time Realtor and he has his own hedge fund, an alternative investment of pooled funds where he employs stock option strategies to actively increase returns for his investors. David is also a husband and dad to young kids. I suddenly feel lazy. I present to you David Sun.

On to this week’s guest in Mat Piche, he’s a normal guy, third generation carpenter.  He used to have a job renovating houses, then he started his own business renovating investment properties for investors.  Investors ask Mat if he knew any great investment specialist realtors, he didn’t so he became it.  Mat started sharing on YouTube back when fire was invented in 2012 and the rest is history.  If you didn’t already know Mat, he’s very successful and he’s here today sharing a ton of tips, tricks, market updates, so have those pens ready.  Mat is an open book and he’s dropping gold.  I give you Mat Piche

Pascale is a mom and wife living in Ottawa, Ontario. As a young mom and school teacher, the pandemic hit her pretty hard with the decision to keep teaching in a changing environment and sending her young son back to daycare. My kids were forever sick while in daycare and preschool pre covid. I can only empathize with parents in this environment. Pascale decided to pivot this past summer to work online in multi level marketing. I’ve invited Pascale on this show because multi level marketing is a common thread among many investors.  Jules Mckenzie has done it. Lynne Tham was a dynamo for Tupperware and I have other friends who’ve been successful in MLM as well who later go onto massive success in real estate.  Is it those with side hustles inevitably will be successful or is it the experience and training that translates into success?  Maybe a bit of both. She’s a successful real estate investor as she shares her number on her current project. To Follow Pascale:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pascalinabr

I first met Joe Costanza 20 months ago when he was a starry eyed 24 year old who had been hustling since a teenager, working several jobs, living at home to save up down payments for real estate.  An architect by trade and having tried several side hustles less than successfully, Joe settled on real estate without much support from his parents. Fast forward to today, Joe owns three properties, two he’s already duplexed and the third to be duplexed house with a joint venture partner.  This is Joe’s story.  For those who like numbers, we’re pretty heavy with the numbers in this episode so have your pens ready. I give you Joe Costanza.   To Follow Joe:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josephcostanza/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joseph.costanza.714

On to this week’s guest, an award winning investor, Kris Lewis Kris is a dad, husband, multiple business owner who is really into spreadsheets, while grinding through to earn his ‘luck’. His current priorities include reverse engineering a life he thought was impossible only a few years earlier.  His goal from an investment perspective, which massively goes against his personality, is to make his income streams extremely boring. Kris is a real estate investor focusing on the Durham region, while specializing in duplex conversions,while knowing in the first 30 seconds whether a property makes sense for his long-term strategy.  Kris believes in multiple streams of income as an insurance policy, which makes sense given his chosen profession. Fundamentally he believes in continuing to educate himself and to learn from what others before him have done. While Kris knows that knowledge is key, he also realizes that embracing fear, making sacrifices and most importantly being ready to take action is an even bigger pi

Andy is a former Home Inspector, he’s a registered House and Small Buildings designer, real estate investor, developer. Andy has a degree in Architectural Science and he’s best known as the leading authority on accessory dwelling units design. In plain english that’s legal basement apartments or garden suites or the million other names for a self contained apartment. Why you need to know about accessory dwelling units is they are the best way to maximize your cash flow and overall returns in real estate. I give you Andy Tran Andy is a former Home Inspector, he’s a registered House and Small Buildings designer, real estate investor, developer. Andy has a degree in Architectural Science and he’s best known as the leading authority on accessory dwelling units design. In plain english that’s legal basement apartments or garden suites or the million other names for a self contained apartment. Why you need to know about accessory dwelling units is they are the best way to maximize your cash flow and overall returns

Hello my fellow wealth hackers!! Who says you can’t mix business with pleasure?? This past Friday, I hosted Canada’s youngest retiree to come into the iWIN Hub (my office) to record a podcast, show him Stock Hacking, and shot virtual zombies in virtual reality. This episode was inspired by Mike going on a rant on his Instagram account about his frustration with his real estate: tenant related problems, day to day management of a sizeable portfolio and all its moving parts including property managers and contractors, finding out sex workers were operating out of his short term rentals and related complaints from the neighbours. Add to that the pandemic and it’s hurt on the tourism and short term rental market and student rental market. I messaged Mike that I was sorry to hear about his challenges and we started talking about stock hacking so I invited Mike to my office to demonstrate for him the strategy, record this podcast episode, have lunch and since he made the 2 hour trip out from London, I figured we wo

This week’s guest is a returning interviewee in Joel Arndt, when he was on last year, he out of the blue challenged me in my ability to make an investor successful so I had him ask me his questions on the podcast.  Some time has since passed and I thought it a good time to check in with Joel on his progress. Full disclosure, Joel now works with Cherry and I in our businesses and like all employees of ours, we teach them to be Wealth Hackers.  We don’t offer pensions but we’ll do our darndest to mentor them to be financially free. Here is the conversation that came from a simple question when I asked Joel what he would do if he had $150,000 cash to invest. If you’re interested in real estate investing go to www.infinitywealth.ca or if it’s stock hacking, go to www.stockhackeracademy.ca  Have you met Joel Ardnt!?

On to this week’s show, we have Seth Ferguson, a real estate TV Show Host, Podcast Host, author, soon to be second time author, apartment building investor and Stock Hacker. I first met Seth a year ago when he invited me to his podcast, it’s one of my favourite interviews. Not only is Seth a great producer and great dresser, he came prepared like none other for our interview. Here’s the link in case you’ve missed it:  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYzZrt9Zipc Web: https://sethferguson.libsyn.com/creating-wealth-is-your-duty-erwin-szeto-0 I haven’t had much free time these days so when folks ask me out for a coffee wanting to know my story, I send them a link to this interview and they’ll learn a lot more about me this way vs. taking me for coffee. After the interview while Seth wass packing up his kit we got chatting and he mentioned the potholes in his life he’s going to share about in just a moment. You know me, I’m always wanting to help so I invited Seth to take the Stock Hacker Academy the nex

This week’s guest is the lovely Kayla Andrade, founder of the Ontario Landlords Watch, a grassroot advocacy group for good landlords and good tenants.  If the environment is good for landlords that only benefits good tenants.  Kayla also has her own investment properties in Cambridge, Ontario, her own property management business Boardwalk Property Management. She's the mother of four and she’s our guest speaker for the next iWIN Meeting on Saturday morning of Oct 24th.  We have very limited seating to accommodate for safe and social distancing but we’ll have enough space online via Zoom.  Followed by lunch at a local restaurant that could use our support and to network with myself and other like minded investors.   The feedback from our meeting last weekend was excellent thanks to our guest speaker Jules Mckenzie who was simply amazing with all the knowledge he shared in overcoming obstacles that would have buried the average Canadian. Kayla is also super awesome in being our collective voice for improvement

This week’s guest has some crazy awesome advice on how to use technology in his sizeable real estate portfolio to save himself time, money, grief, and it even got rid of a drug dealing tenant who assaulted another tenant out of his property.  Some of Christians’ technology even makes him money.  Needless to say, this is an excellent interview.   This is a long episode as Christian was generous with his time, he is a former executive at one of Canada’s most well known technology companies in Ottawa, Ontario where he lives. More recently we became the Vice President of Ottawa Real Estate Investors Group.  Shout out to outgoing President Rich Danby.  We talk about what makes a good investment club and in the second half Christian lists off a bunch of technologies he has personally implemented in his real estate so do have a pen and paper ready, you’re likely going to want everything he’s got after he explains the benefits.

This week’s guests are none other than Leslie and Jamie Collard of Collard Properties and this is their 2nd interview on the Truth About Real Estate Investing.  The Collards did start with smaller residential investments and are now focused on apartment buildings and developing vacation properties internationally. Leslie and Jamie are quite open and sharing about how they find deals as well so make sure to have your pen and paper ready. They’re even hosting a commercial real estate conference online and you can learn more about that on their website www.collardproperties.ca

On to this week’s guest, Lynne Tham. She was nervous to come on the show which is not uncommon. Public speaking by some surveys ranks higher on the lists of fears above death it self…. Lynne’s kids including my friend Simon told her to just do it and she did! I’ll post Lynne’s full bio on our website, www.truthaboutrealestateinvesting.ca. It’s a wonderful Canadian success story of a teenager immigrating to Canada, falling in love with the greatest country in the world.  Started a family, stayed at home to raise the kids, picked up a side hustle in multi-level marketing, excelled, became a single parent, became a Realtor, had a wake up call at age 55 that she needed a retirement plan. Invested in real estate, de-invested in real estate and now a pretty successful stock hacker. I know we have several full time professional, uber successful real estate investors like Ryan Carr and coming up next Leslie and Jamie Collard and their 160 units but for the investor who wants to take it easy and be a bit more passive…

Speaking of cash flow we have Ryan Carr of RW Carr Investments as this week’s guest talking about highest and best use and being creative in real estate.  How he groups his real estate investments into buy, renovate and hold, short term renos/developments and flips, and longer term projects including a waterfront 14 unit multifamily he renovated that went hundreds of thousands of dollars over budget… how did it work out? You’ll have to listen to find out. Plus for the first time, Ryan talks about the passing of his real estate coach Stefan Aarnio. I think most of you should already know Ryan, he’s been on this podcast more than anyone else and he’s always up to something big whether its writing articles about how to increase cash flow by renting out sheds, vertical splitting of a duplex, tiny homes, etc… If you don’t know Ryan you will soon as he up to big things that I’m sworn to secrecy but here in the interview is what we can share :) I give you Ryan Carr

Meet Michael Bugg, he’s young father, husband and just recently a full time real estate investor out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.  He began buying properties in 2010, specifically new construction and his investing has evolved into small apartment buildings. In July 2018, Michael hung up the stethoscope and quit his job as a veterinarian. On this episode, Michael shares his journey to now owning a couple apartment buildings and how he lost money stock hacking during the covid crash and the shocking returns he’s achieved since then. I give you Michael Bugg