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Lessons from Ted Rogers for Real Estate Investors

July 22, 2009

Lately I’ve been reading voraciously. I read Freakonomics in 2 days, right now I’m  re-reading the gentrification bible The Death and Life of Great American cities and on the weekend I just finished reading Ted Rogers autobiography. Ted Rogers was a real action taker and I found some principles that we could apply as real [...]

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The Key to a Successful Real Estate Investment Group

May 19, 2009

…is to be a real estate investment group. Period. That’s really all there is to it. Your group need to be about that one topic and everything you do needs to be aligned to that objective. REIN’s tagline on the homepage of www.realestateinvestingincanada.com is: Discover How, When And Where To Buy Canadian Positive Cash Flow [...]

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Define Your Investing Niche

February 17, 2009

Hi, I’m Chris. I buy three-bedroom townhouses in Millwoods. That’s my niche. You may have met my Dad, Brent. He’s the King 82nd Street. (That’s over here) If you’re going to do anything, you need to define your niche. Where, what, how, why, where, and what makes you different than your competition. To that end, [...]

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8 Tips for Recession Proofing Your Real Estate Business Model

January 26, 2009

[Ed Note: Today's Guest Post comes for Garth Chapman, a Diamond REIN member and the co-founder of REMA, a Real Estate Management and Analysis software. (Not so shameless plug: I use it!)] This has been our approach to making sure our estate business prospers going forward. We’re always trying to answer the question: What are [...]

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