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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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…