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Make Money Buying – Make More Holding

January 4, 2010

It’s easy to understand how you can make money when you buy real estate. You find undervalued properties, motivated sellers, sweat equity or tenants from hell.
The real money, as well as the potential to lose it all, comes from what you do in the years after you buy. You can find 300%+ returns if you [...]

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Know the Real Rents – Ask a Realtor

June 23, 2009

There’s a huge list of important variables and issues to consider when you’re looking at a piece of investment real estate. Even with all the due diligence a good investor does, there’s one big variable that’s harder than all the rest to judge…and we’re going to make it easier for some of you who are [...]

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What Do I Do?

April 18, 2009

The brother of a friend of mine heard that I invest in Edmonton real estate and started asking questions of my friend. He apparently looked around my blog, and asked “isn’t there a post on there that explains just what you do?”
I figured my About page explained that, but then I realized that it only [...]

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8 Essential Real Estate Investment Business Processes

February 16, 2009

For me, and for all the REIN members like me, we’re buying or are preparing to buy. I have no doubt in my mind that the properties I buy today will have appreciated significantly in five years’ time. Why five years? Because that’s the minimum hold that my Joint Venture partners and I agree on. [...]

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10 Great Articles on Real Estate from ChrisDavies.ca

November 19, 2008

Here’s a list of the most popular posts thus far on my blog:

Edmonton Real Estate Prices Since 1962
This post was the undisupted winner, grabbing ~800 views in the first couple days and links from several other sites. 
Six Steps to Finding Cashflow Creek
This was one of my favorite posts to write because of the great feedback [...]

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Landlords don’t have to accept cash

September 4, 2008

In Canada you don’t have to accept cash, or any method of payment you don’t want to. For me, being a landlord, this is handy.
About every two years we get a new wave of creative counterfeiting coming through. We also had a caretaker start stealing from us. (I’ll post the story of how we caught [...]

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Six Steps to Finding Cashflow Creek (and two bonus steps)

February 25, 2008

The secret to investing in Real Estate is Cash Flow.
If you get some cash out each month/quarter, you’ll be able to continue to invest. If not, you’ll be stuck nursing along your one property and never make any progress towards your own personal Belize. Because I hear and read a lot of new investors [...]

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