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July 2010

My $200,000 Retirement Plan

July 31, 2010 Personal
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So this is actually really simple. Buy a $200,000 house today. Rent it out, making sure you’ve picked a house where the rent covers the expenses with a bit leftover. Wait 20-30 years. That’ll make me 50-60. You’ll have (at least) a $200,000 asset free and clear that you can sell, remortgage or light on [...]

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All I Want Is You

July 30, 2010 Song of the Week

Happy Friday! Enjoy your long weekend. I’m stuck working on Monday, but I’m looking forward to Edmonton’s Heritage Days and some time at the lake this weekend. This is Barry Louis Polisar’s song “All I Want Is You” from the film JUNO (which is awesome!)

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Seven Reasons Blog Posts Take Forever

July 25, 2010 Personal
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This may be more like Seven Reasons I’m Too Lazy To Blog, but we’ll work under the assumption I’ve just been busy. It might not look like it, but I’ve actually been busier than a one legged man playing Twister. There’s been a bunch of stuff happening in the background this week. WP 3 I [...]

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A Fireplace Demolition – How I Spend my Saturdays

July 24, 2010 renovations

This morning I got up and then went and demolished the old fireplace at the townhouse we’re renovating. If you’ve been following along, you’ll remember the 64 ugly pictures of the place and then the 4-hour Kitchen Reno video. Now I present for you a time lapse video of the removal of the old brick. [...]

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The Man Your Real Estate Could Smell Like

July 16, 2010 Song of the Week
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If you haven’t seen the Old Spice ‘Man your Man could smell like’ commercial, you need to watch the next video. Then, prepare to laugh so hard you cry. Old Spice made over 100 videos over two days, responding in almost real time to actual people. Like this marriage proposal… Now go check out the [...]

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Your July 15th Event Roundup

July 15, 2010 For Real Estate Investors

There’s four great things going on over the next couple months, three of which are free! Tonight is the first of Brent’s Edmonton Investment Real Estate Discovery Tours. He’s doing free no-obligation tours of investment properties in Edmonton to help investors understand the different opportunities and landmines that go along with different types of properties. [...]

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450 of my Facebook Friends Are Going To Be Screwed In Retirement

July 14, 2010 My Personal Belize
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There’s been a lot in the news the last few months about how Canada’s gone from a nation of savers to a nation of spenders. While it’s true that we’ve gone from saving ~15% of our income to ~1%, there’s some scarier stats out there. We’re in serious danger of outliving our savings, getting useless [...]

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