You're invited to come and network together at the York Region Real Estate Investors meeting on January 16th 2014 in Newmarket. Come and listen to fellow REIN Member Phil Jarvie. The topic of the night is Insurance. We hate to pay but love to have it! Industry leader Phil Jarvie who works...

You're invited to come and network together at the York Region Real Estate Investors meeting on November 21, 2013 in Newmarket. Come and listen to fellow REIN Members Carrie Koch and Kevin Boughen. Carrie Koch who has been investing and managing properties for the past five years. She...

It's Gary, I wanted to let you know that I just posted an incredible interview that I had the pleasure of doing with my good friend Ian Szabo. If you know Ian you already know that this interview is packed with some incredible insight to how Ian operates his Property Flipping business. Ian is...

Hi everyone, I thought I would start a thread and make the statement that we always seem to hear in life. I wish I knew what I know now? For instance when we first starting buying properties I made my share of mistakes. I want to know what yours where. What did you do back then that you...

Hi All, We have released our new ebook and wanted to make it available to you. It is called Hamilton Real Estate Investing Is Now. This book is jammed packed with great information on why one would want to invest in the # 1 city in Ontario for real estate investing as rated by REIN...

We are delivering more than we promised to our Investors. Read the story below to see how we delivered a 32% Return. Last month we exited out of one of our buy and hold properties and gave our partners a big surprise! A surprise investors like to see. In the summer of 2009 a key Realtor...

We have a lead in Belle River ON. The Sellers are looking for a quick sale. We can hand over the lead to anyone that wants to run with it. If you need guidance working out a deal I would be happy to assist. email our assistant for the details. kristy at renttobuyahome dot com

I`m looking for some feedback here. If an investor is to invest for Cash Flow first then appreciation; what return are you looking for per year? If you invest 75k into a property what do you expect to get in return (cash flow) otherwise known as the "cash on cash return"? I have polled our...

We keep hearing about the new layout for the forum. When is the release of the new site scheduled? What new features are being added?

I was encouraged to share this story which happened to me this morning. Email Lead came in from Kijiji ad that I had placed. The Property: 3 year old Townhouse condo in Kitchener FMV - 255k LTV - 225k PIT - 1,448 per mth at 5.25% fixed due Feb 2012 Behind in Mortgage - 2,400 (she has been...

Patlive took a call last night from the yellow letter campaign. I called the caller this morning and she was not interested in selling her home. However she mentioned she was an investor who was looking to retire from the day to day duties of owning and operating a small real estate portfolio...

To the 60 some people that became RLG Masters at the Edmonton seminar, How have you found the mentoring? Where are you in your plan? What strategies are you taking? What pit falls have you already seen? What are your comments to the program? Would you recommend it for fellow Canadians? Are you...

“One Trillion Dollars” Well just how much is one trillion dollars?  It depends where you live.  In the American system one billion is 1,000,000,000 and a trillion is 1,000,000,000,000 so one trillion is one thousand times one billion.  In the British system one billion is...

Hi All, I’m looking for a proven Real Estate agent for the Newmarket area. An agent that is familiar with the REIN philosophies and is experienced in small multi family properties. Newmarket is where we call home and I have seen some intriguing properties appear on the market here. Thanks

My wife and I celebrated the birth of our second child last November and to we wanted to take advantage the benefits my employer offers (10 weeks off with supplemental pay). I have plans of taking the time off in the summer  . We are trying budget accordingly and are keeping in mind the...

This an article taken from http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/09/30/house-value.html Talks about how the subprime debt binge is to be blamed for U.S. housing market meltdown and how it won`t happen in Canada Gary CBC News  Canadian house prices may continue to slide but there is no...

Every couple of years or there is movie that comes out to push the envelope on how people think. Like Bowling for Columbine, Super Size Me and so on. Could this be the next movie that creates water cooler talk? It’s about the US and thier money spending!! I O USA

We have recently closed on three properties and with the transfer of the Utilities the admin fees where adding up pretty quickly. $50 for gas, $30 for electric, $30 for water and sewage and $30 for water heater.  One of the properties has two hot water tanks and one account for each tank. The...

We are closing on three properties at the end of the month with the same JV partner. We have thought about opening up a high interest savings account. We could put a decent amount of the reserve funds into it and receive a good return while still having access to the money. e.g. $1000...

Hi All,  Has anyone had experience with good property manager in the Lindsay ON area? We have a pm but would like to talk to a couple more to view his competition. Its always good to know what the others are offering! Thanks gary