Cherry, Author at Real Estate Tax Tips

Why Foreign Buyers Shouldn’t be Blamed for Rising Housing Prices

3 reps of 155lbs deadlifts! 🙂 If you don’t know what deadlifts are, I’ve attached my own pictures here for your reference. 🙂 (You can probably see that I was biting my lips for my final lift.) Honestly, 155lbs in...

September 15, 2016

How to Record a Proper AutoLog to Maximize Automobile Expense Deductions

Other tax issues Realtors/real estate agents Small business and real estate

How to Record a Proper AutoLog to Maximize Automobile Expense Deductions

I had an excellent week up north at a friend’s cottage. She recently bought a cottage so that her kids, raised in the city, could get to enjoy the outdoor and not be afraid of bugs and snakes and turtles....

September 8, 2016

4 Ways to Minimize Taxes on Sale of Rental Properties

Capital cost allowance Other tax issues Real estate investment

4 Ways to Minimize Taxes on Sale of Rental Properties

â€œSuccess is measured by inches, not miles.â€ For some of my long time blog followers, you know that my goal is to be able to do a strict pull up by the end of this year. I am still working...

August 25, 2016

“Whoever can deal with the most sh@t wins!”

Real estate rant

“Whoever can deal with the most sh@t wins!”

I heard this line the first time from Nick Karadza at the Rock Star Inner Circle member event. I’ve always been depositing my rent cheques late. Life is busy with two kids. Operating a growing business requires a lot of...

August 18, 2016

How to Calculate Tax Payable on the Sale of Your Rental Properties?

Capital cost allowance Other tax issues

How to Calculate Tax Payable on the Sale of Your Rental Properties?

Update: 2021-11-25 Recently, my clients have been asking a lot of questions about Capital gains tax and rental property. I have addressed some of the most commonly asked Q & A’s in this new post along with a youtube video....

August 11, 2016

Top 6 Considerations When Buying a Rental Property in Your Adult Child’s Name

Other tax issues Real estate investment

Top 6 Considerations When Buying a Rental Property in Your Adult Child’s Name

I always knew I wanted to go to University of Waterloo, despite my parents don’t really know much about it at the time. My dad lives in Hong Kong. All he had heard of was University of Toronto. I always...

August 4, 2016

7 Questions to Decide Whether You Should Incorporate (Part 2)

Other tax issues Real estate corporations

7 Questions to Decide Whether You Should Incorporate (Part 2)

Irene, a long time friend of mine, came by to visit a couple weeks ago. Together with Jason, we were in the same study group when we wrote the Uniform Final Exam (UFE) 10 years ago! We all graduated from...

July 27, 2016

7 Questions to Decide Whether You Should Incorporate (PART 1)

Real estate corporations

7 Questions to Decide Whether You Should Incorporate (PART 1)

Corporations provide a lot of flexibility in tax planning but the immediate cost to setup and maintain can sometimes be difficult to bear, especially for new investors who barely make any cash flow from the properties. Whether you should incorporate...

July 21, 2016

New Residential Housing Rebates: Be Aware of These Recent Court Cases!

Other tax issues Real estate rant

New Residential Housing Rebates: Be Aware of These Recent Court Cases!

I didn’t grow up with money. My family was relying on a lot of government help when I was young. We first got into temporary housing; a similar style to townhouses, except that they were built with metal and they...

July 14, 2016

4 Tips to Organize Your Books and Records to Protect Yourself from a CRA Audit

Other tax issues Real estate rant

4 Tips to Organize Your Books and Records to Protect Yourself from a CRA Audit

I had an opportunity to sit down with a very inspiring lady yesterday. She’s Chinese, grew up in Singapore. She left Singapore in her early 20’s to pursue a dream in Canada. She and I shared a very similar background....

July 7, 2016

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