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Make Money Buying – Make More Holding

January 4, 2010 Property Management

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 [...]

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Roll Your Own – Organized Crime Moves Into Rental Properties

November 25, 2009 Property Management
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Alex Kubyshyn shared this press release (I think from Calgary Police or Health) which is a good reminder of why you should check on your properties on a regular basis to prevent marijuana grow-ops. In BC, as I learned when I lived in Kelowna, grow-ops are a much larger problem than in Alberta. I’ve run [...]

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ACRE Weekend Resources for Newbies

November 7, 2009 REIN
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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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Know the Real Rents – Ask a Realtor

June 23, 2009 Property Management

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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Get a LIFE Weekend and Economic Summit

June 19, 2009 REIN

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, [...]

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Trees on Twitter – Doing it Right!

May 16, 2009 Property Management

Got a business? Got a need? Ever wondered how either group of people would use Twitter is a positive productive way? Here’s a great example thanks to Davey Tree, presented in pictures (Full text below the ‘more’ tag) @wburris @w_chris_davies @DaveyTree

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Chris’ Podcast – May 7/09

May 8, 2009 Podcasts

Here’s a first for me, a shiny new podcast. Brent bought a sweet USB mic, so I fired it up and here we go. It’s just over 8 minutes long. You can listen by clicking the play button below, or by right clicking on this link, selecting ‘save as’ and using iTunes or something on [...]

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