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ACRE Weekend Resources for Newbies

November 7, 2009
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Well, Saturday morning in Calgary will find a bunch of people in a room with Russell Westcott, Don Campbell and a bunch of exceptionally successful real estate investors. I wish I could be there, meeting people, seeing what’s new and being inspired. It’s an ACREs (Authentic Canadian Real Estate Seminar) weekend, put on by REIN.
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Joint Venture Secrets Unleashed: Teleseminar Series

August 29, 2009

Dan Barton of Oasis Properties dropped me a line about a webinar/teleseminar series he’s running on a subject near and dear to my heart: Raising Joint Venture money.
Dan’s done a lot of deals, and Oasis is a serious player in REIN circles. I’ve chatted with Dan and Greg briefly at REIN events and I have [...]

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Get a LIFE Weekend and Economic Summit

June 19, 2009

There’s a great Real Estate Investment Network (REIN) event in Edmonton coming up soon, June 26-28th.
Friday night starts with an economic summit with key speakers, some top Canadian economists and veteran analysts. You can download the PDF brochure here, or click here to register.
The panel for the summit will include:

Carl Gomez, Vice President, Research, Bentall Capital
Todd [...]

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Daily Statistics from Stats Can

May 12, 2009

Having great statistics is a vital part of what I do, and I’m sure that it’s important to all sorts of investors. I need them to help understand the market, creating Joint Venture presentations, blog posts and other presentations I do. 
One of my favorite sites is StatsCan (Statistics Canada). I’ve used the stats from The [...]

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Real Estate Education From Kindergarten to University

April 26, 2009

There’s a natural progression within Real Estate education, it’s a lot like school. I’m going to try and paint a picture of what I think this looks like for Canadian investors. I’m using the metaphor of school because it’s familiar to us all, but don’t think that it’s literal. For many investors there’s a 10-20 [...]

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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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How to present complicated numbers

August 3, 2008

My name is Chris, and I’m addicted to powerpoint.
They say that admitting the problem is the first step to recovery. I just happen to like making good presentations. And I like helping other people make good presentations.
Presenting Real Estate Investment Numbers to Joint Venture Partners
Today’s slide deck is an example of the slides I’ll use [...]

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More fun with Lego!

July 28, 2008

James liked my earlier post about the philosophy of using Lego to find JV partners.
He found this great website called Lego a Day. I particularly like their one with Wall-E and the Stormtroopers.
After the discussion the other day on Sheldon and Sara’s blog, I’m going to post some numbers of what my investment analysis look [...]

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