Marco Santoro is a well respected REIN member and his wife Tanya is a realtor. They own many properties and know the investment market in Brantford, Cambridge, Kitchener and surrounding areas very well. They can also connect you to a superb home inspector, mortgage broker and lawyer. We use...

Hey Bob! I just checked out your blog and the information looks great. You`ll be getting my registration this week. Save us an oceanview cabin! Carla

Congrats to John On this New Year Going the distance Life in high gear. We know it`s true That 2008, Will be the start Of something Great! While I`m here On your progress to peek, I`ll give my own life A bit of a tweak. Though this may not be A sharp limerick You`ll see my rhyme Has its...

Hi Frank, Our property manager, Shari Guinta, owns Benchmark Property Mangement in Waterloo. Email: [email protected]: 519-746-3033Fax: 519-746-7033Address: 39 Durward Place, Unit 2 (front), Waterloo, ON N2L 4E5Shari is great. She manages properties throughout the larger area...

Hi Donna, The first two properties my husband and I bought were one of each, a four-plex and a town-house condominium. The 4-plex had a higher cash flow, but a much steeper learning curve for us. When you buy a multi you get the tenants too and ours were vibrant. Multis often have smaller...

Keep in mind that they do this all the time and you are new to the business. Your involvement in the communication could potentially slow things down. We actually set this up with our first purchase, but you need to decide what works for you. The best to you. Carla

Our agent, property inspector, mortgage broker & lawyer all know each other and it works really well. They work very hard to make each purchase as smooth as possible for us. They all call each other as necessary and save us an enormous amount of time. It really frees us up and you can bet we...

QUOTE (invst4profit @ Nov 29 2007, 04:23 PM) I wish that this forum had a "Real Estate Deal Analysis" heading where anyone, espically those looking at there first buy, could put in the details of a property they are considering for all the members to critique. This is of considerable benifit to...

My husband Steven Roorda and I live, work, breath and invest in K-W-C - #1 on REIN`s Top 10 Ontario Towns. November and December are the months to find great real estate deals. There are opportunities in K-W-C right now and we are looking for JV money partners to join us. Let`s do some...

For the new investor/entrepreneur, The One Minute Millionaire by Mark Victor Hansen & Robert G. Allen is a fun read. The left hand pages are tips and advice for entrepreneurs and the right hand pages are a fictional story about a woman needing to turn her life around...

If you are looking for something spiritual, Deepak Chopra`s "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success" is an ancient Vedic version of the law of attraction. http://www.amazon.ca/Seven-Spiritual-Laws-...9259&sr=1-1 Cheers! Carla

What a great story Rebecca. We really can turn the "ship" of our lives around. Four years ago, my husband Steven and I were heavily in bad debt and getting deeper. We then made a big decision. We turned our personal line of credit and all our other debt into a loan and arranged for an...

This is very interesting. Is this happening at all - or any time soon - in Ontario? Cheers! Carla

What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?: Living Your Dreams While Quakin` In Your Boots by Diane Conway is a great collection of real life stories from people who have gotten rid of the "scary monsters in their life" (as Don Campbell would say)...

We have always used kijiji & Craigslist and had great luck with them until this fall. We had a very nice property with great pics get zip reponses. We also had a standard ad in the paper. The only people to view it were ones we didn`t want. Finally, our property manager called to say we might...

Hello,This is a great idea and I too would love to see Don`s monthly book recommendation posted here. For new investors, I always recommend starting with Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. It provides financial knowledge and a framework to establish long term goals...

QUOTE (mambo @ Oct 14 2007, 02:25 AM) Hi Bill, Can you also comment for Kitchener, i hear that Connestoga near Don area is a potential due to students and increased expension of the college. Thank you HousingRental for the question to Bill. Thank you Hello, My husband and I have 2 student...

A few weeks ago a good friend of mine found her perfect condo. The seller wanted a quick closing, so he met her price and included the brand new appliances. She was very happy with the purchase and mistakenly thought a condo was a safer purchase, so she did not include the home inspection in her...

Don & Mike, Thank you for your encouraging feedback. Your comment about the clarity & simplicity of our goals put a smile on my face. Originally I had tried to write them much more eloquently, but gave up. I had always intended to go back and redo them, but I am going to leave them just the way...

I was very disappointed when I found out I missed Les Hewitt in Toronto in August. So, last Saturday I hunkered down in my backyard with my journal as I listened to my REIN CD of Les and soaked up the sun - the perfect conditions for personal breakthroughs. Life doesn`t get much better than...