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9 Fairly Obvious Ways to Prevent Year-End Real Estate Chaos

December 20, 2011 Property Management
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1. Visit your properties This is usually a no-brainer, but it’s easy to get into a groove where the cheques show up and you don’t get out to check on something that appears to be working fine. If nothing else, this is a great chance to drop off a Christmas card and gift (see #5 [...]

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The Three Rules of Renos and Repairs

August 7, 2010 Business
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You can have it cheap, good or on time. If you’re good, you can maybe have two out of three. You cannot have all three. Cheap and Good – This will take a long time and you’ll likely end up doing most of the work yourself (assuming you’ve got some skills or like learning) Cheap [...]

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4 Hours of Kitchen Renos in 24 Seconds

July 7, 2010 renovations

Here’s what I end up doing on nights when I’m not blogging or sleeping. I’ll be at the Edmonton REIN Workshop tomorrow night, so if we haven’t met before come say hi.

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64 Photos of a Screwed Up House

June 27, 2010 Real Estate

I could have named this post 64 reasons I can buy for 30% below market in Edmonton, but it’s not sold yet. It’s a house we bought from a distressed seller who needed to move very quickly. I’ll go into details about how to find, fund and close on places like this. This is the [...]

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How To Buy A House In 30 Minutes

June 3, 2010 Real Estate
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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 Real Estate
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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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Bathroom Reno Mistakes – Chapter 74

April 14, 2009 Personal

Last year around this time I renovated Megan’s bathroom in the condo she just bought. We installed a nice new tub and surround. Part of the reno required floating the floor under the tub by about 2″. Since the reno, the tub settled about 3/8″ of an inch, so there was a gap between the [...]

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