The Truth About Real Estate Investing... For Canadians

How goes your balancing act with life, work, investing and charity? Last week for us was definitely pushed our limits to the edge.  My wife and I are parents to a three and five year old, Cherry is in her final stretch for tax season doing Accounting to over 100 local real estate investors, our charity for which Cherry is VP Finance and I am President had one of our three major events this past weekend fulfilling the wish lists of 32 of Hamilton’s poorest families. Thank you to all our donors and volunteers.  If you see my post on Instagram you’ll see Batman and Thor, God of Thunder were in attendance to spread some cheer. On top of all of that, we closed on our newest investment property on Thursday and it’s one of the worst closings I’ve ever seen mostly our own fault and the general difficulty of the lending market and lots of learning lessons. The biggest lesson here is to start your financing process earlier than we did. Most of you are on the ball as you have your financing in order before conditions ar