Cherry, Author at Real Estate Tax Tips

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...

June 9, 2017

6 Lessons I Learned from My 14th Tax Season

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6 Lessons I Learned from My 14th Tax Season

Last week was a hectic week for me. I presented at my client, Martin Kuev’s Meet Up group in Vaughan, educating over 40 investors on whether they should incorporate to own their rental portfolio or not. If you are interested...

June 1, 2017

5 Common HST Questions When Building or Substantially Renovating a Property

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5 Common HST Questions When Building or Substantially Renovating a Property

How was your long weekend? Victoria Day long weekend is always fun in our neighborhood. One of our neighbors organizes an annual fireworks event every year. This year as a collective group, we spent over a thousand dollars on the...

May 25, 2017

Why Incorporation is the Way to Go for High-Earning Realtors

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Why Incorporation is the Way to Go for High-Earning Realtors

It was nice spending time meeting so many great people at Realtor Quest 2017 and the Rock Star Inner Circle member event. Despite the business of my schedule last week, I managed to take my Sunday off with my two...

May 18, 2017

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The Bright Side of Self Reflection

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone out there celebrating it. It was Mother’s Day celebration at my kids’ part time Daycare this week. Both of my kids go to the same school on different days so I got to have two...

May 11, 2017

You Need to Use the ‘5 Second Rule’ to Get Anything Done & Here’s Why the 15% Foreign Buyers Tax Won’t Work

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You Need to Use the ‘5 Second Rule’ to Get Anything Done & Here’s Why the 15% Foreign Buyers Tax Won’t Work

Many of you have probably heard about 5 second rule before. Usually it is related to dropping food on the floor, but if you pick up the food within 5 second, you can still eat it. The 5 second...

May 4, 2017

Do You Make These Mistakes When You File Rental Income in Your Corporation?

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Do You Make These Mistakes When You File Rental Income in Your Corporation?

Happy belated Easter everyone! I hope all of you enjoyed your Easter as much as I did. We are so fortunate that our neighborhood hosted an annual Easter Egg Hunt every Easter Sunday. We have been participating ever since we...

April 20, 2017

4 Tax Lessons Every Small Business Owner Needs to Follow

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4 Tax Lessons Every Small Business Owner Needs to Follow

Recently I had a couple of gatherings with my old accounting firm colleagues. Back in the day, in order to get licensed we were required to work in an accounting firm to get experience. Many of the junior staff were...

April 6, 2017

Budget 2017: What You Need to Know as Small Business Owners & Real Estate Investors

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Budget 2017: What You Need to Know as Small Business Owners & Real Estate Investors

This week marked the completion of our Crossfit Open 2017. It’s my first time participating in it and it was a lot of fun. I mentioned in my last blog post that I belonged to this 18-34 age group, mixed...

March 30, 2017

Canada Pension Plan: A good or bad investment?

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Canada Pension Plan: A good or bad investment?

I’ve been doing cross-fit for three years on and off. I still consider myself a beginner but I have to say, I’m a more experienced beginner now than a couple years back. There’re still lots of movements that I can’t...

March 23, 2017

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