I have access to a corporation with approx. $300,000 of losses. My accountant said to try and sell it off and it seems more practical to try and recover the losses as the corporation does not have any outstanding issues. It seems that fixing and flipping real estate may be the best way to go...

Is it possible to find a good partner to work with or does most people go the solo route for investing or use joint ventures instead and still keep in control of the projects?

QUOTE (navaz @ May 20 2010, 09:32 AM) What is wrong with paying capital gains tax? You only have to pay tax on one half of the income? Isn`t that better then paying on the full 100% like employment income? or worst still, not making money? These are the problems I like as a real estate investor...

QUOTE (GaryMcGowan @ May 18 2010, 03:07 PM) I would look at an Agreement For Sale as Thomas mentioned. Title and current mortgage stays in your name until she cashes you out sometime in the future. You then could offer your own financing to her and still make a spread on what your underlying...

I bought a home in the Crowsnest Pass for $75,000 in 2005 and used it as a weekender home. The value shot up to the $240,000 in the recent peak years. I put a $196,800 mortgage on the property to buy other properties. My stepdaughter currently rents this property from me and she has fallen in...

I use to use ING which changed their name to Intact Insurance.... now i use Axa Pacific... better rates surprisingly enough!

QUOTE (Dan_Eisenhauer @ Jan 10 2010, 06:06 PM) Someone is going to have to pay the GST at some point in time. It, like death, is unavoidable. You need to talk amongst yourselves how the GST is going to be handled. The Buyer can pay it, but watch for it in the Purchase Contract. If it is not...

Three investors, one a contractor, build a house. Two investors pay contractor`s company for materials, contractor does the work outside of the company using his labor as his share of the jv... contractor wants to use the house as a principle residence so he can not pay capital gains. Realtor...

It was interesting comparing the end of 2012 for the U.S. property situation to finally be turning around by Don with the economic guru`s interview predicting the coming crash of the U.S. dollar happening within the next few years as well.

QUOTE (RedlineBrett @ Jan 3 2010, 05:19 PM) Depends on a couple of things. 1. Are you in a power of sale province or a judicial sale province. Power of sale (Ontario) is much closer to US law and therefore better deals should be available. I am not experienced in power of sale however so I`ll...

I seem to be getting in on the foreclosure track although i think that the banks really want close to the market value so there would be not much of spread for an investor to jump in on them to buy and flip. The preforeclosures on the other hand seems to be the better way to go, saving someone`s...

It was great to meet you! There just isn`t much interest in Calgary to have a weekly coffee meeting. You did well with that condo flip! I think that you will do very well as time goes on! The coffee meetings did open up a few doors of opportunity which was nice to see. All the best! Dean...

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Rather than to sell off properties individually, has anyone sold their corporations to another investor with the entire portfolio? Is that a good way to get into real estate as an investor? Or maybe to move up the property ladder with buying one? Has any used a corporation to do a joint...

QUOTE (shusarik @ Nov 18 2009, 09:50 AM) I did some more digging into the four addresses, and they did provide explanations as follows: - The current house they live in is being sold, and the owner confirmed he wants to have it vacant for this. - The couple split up last year for a few months...