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My $200,000 Retirement Plan

July 31, 2010
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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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How To Buy A House In 30 Minutes

June 3, 2010
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15 years learning by watching 4 years building relationships 2 years buying my own stuff Which leads to the experience of getting an email, making two phone calls and calling the seller back within 30 minutes of their email to say, “we’ll take it!” I don’t advocate buying property sight unseen, and after I gave [...]

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Your Dream Real Estate Investment

June 1, 2010
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Whenever I talk with new real estate investors I ask them about what type of property they’re going to focus on. Most of them haven’t thought about it at all. A few want to go crazy with basement suites or rooming houses (dreaming of the extra cashflow). And if someone actually has a couple properties [...]

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9 Ways to Avoid Getting Screwed by JV Partners

May 28, 2010
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When you start buying properties with the assistance of Joint Venture partners, you end up putting a lot of trust in the hands of someone you might not know very well. Particularly if they’re the money partner, they can get cold feet at the last minute and leave you standing at the altar with no [...]

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Don Campbell’s New Book – Free Book Give Away

March 3, 2010
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A shiny new book showed up today, in a boring brown package. Wiley sent me a free copy (being a Facebook addict has it’s advantages), just for commenting on the wall of their Facebook group. That’s a pretty smart way to do things, and I’m going to pay it forward, but I’ll get to that [...]

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Talk is Cheap – Fear is Abundant

December 22, 2009

One thing I’ve been able to do quite a bit of lately is catch up on some great blogs, but there’s also some real stinkers out there. Some of the negative/bad/bubble blogs are important for me to read because they bring up the questions I have to answer from potential investors, but there’s often an [...]

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Five Ways to Flush $50k

August 8, 2009

Wade Graham of HGREI liked my Six Reasons No One Wants to Buy Your F**king Real Estate Investment post and felt inspired to write his own list on a slightly different topic. Five Ways to Lose $50K (in no particular order) 1. You pay too much for the property. This one sounds obvious but 9 [...]

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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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