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How to Become Financially Secure When You’re Not a Millionaire

It’s 2019. As an entrepreneur, I just completed my annual goal review and goal setting exercise. One of the things I noticed from my review was that I had been lazy in 2018 – didn’t follow much of my regular morning routine. …
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10 Lessons Learned From Analyzing Commercial Properties

A couple of weeks ago, Erwin and his friends found a mixed-used property that they're interested in. The property is located on a busy street, across the street from a site that was sold to a developer. This site will be home to a future…
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How to Maximize Return on Investment Using Savings & Line of Credit

A bunch of our friends and I started a small charity a few years ago. Did you know… 37% of Hamilton children go hungry over the holidays. Our goal was to provide holiday dinners to people who’re in need. We fed over one thousand…
buying Pre-construction Homes
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Case Study Follow Up: 5 Lessons Learned from Lily Buying MULTIPLE Pre-construction Homes

This is a special week for our family. We got to celebrate Fathers day with my father-in-law. We got to welcome the family of Sharmein, who's our kids' nanny, to our house. They arrived Tuesday evening. Sharmein understandably was…

5 Tax Impacts on Real Estate Investors from the Proposed Tax Changes on Private Corporation

We are changing our office number! I am in the middle of switching my business phone network from a US carrier to a Canadian carrier.  Although we can work out the logistics to port the old number over, I’m assigned a new number temporarily…
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Estate Planning Tip: Be Aware of these Pitfalls Using this Strategy to Avoid Probate & My Miracle Morning Routine Revealed

I listened to the audiobook The Miracle Morning written by Hal Elroy. It was nothing that I didn't hear before, but it serves as a great reminder for me to continue my early morning commitment. Recently I have been slacking a bit with my…

Estate Planning: How to Lower Your Estate Tax Using this One Strategy

Happy 2017! I have had quite a dramatic end to 2016. As a real estate investor, it's often considered the worst nightmare that you find out your rental property got flooded in between the holidays. That's exactly what happened to…
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Estate Planning: What Happens after Happily Ever After?

I always have great conversations with my bookkeeper. Her name is Lihua. She lives close to me and was really just looking for a part-time role working from home and we clicked immediately. She's been a stay at home mom for years to raise…