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Rental condos, brick exterior style in Vancouver and Alberta

Tale of Risk Taking: Career Paths and Real Estate

Three Students Choosing Different Careers and Investments Buddy A: Bought a Vancouver condo for $400,000 even in 2014, with 10% down. Rented it out and…

Guilt comes with Ambition. Working in Alberta's Oil Patch and becoming a Business Owner.

Adverse Psychological Effects of Ambition

Sometimes I wish I am not the man I am today. I am so used to being a hustler, and just crude. This based on…

Business owner packing bags in Edmonton, Alberta

Mid 2019 Update: 6 Years into Alberta’s Oilfield

It’s been 6 years since I left university in BC: packing my bags, and driving straight to Fort McMurray, Alberta. Then I ended up in…

Starting a Business in Alberta

The Hated Young Entrepreneur

Young Guys & Ladies Looked Down Upon for Getting Ahead I don’t know how many times throughout my life people have tried to put me…

Analyzing the Market

Buyouts and Decreasing Returns Towards Equilibrium

The struggle to find consistent high yield stocks, in businesses generating consistent, high yield returns (1) Most investors (or wanna-be ones) aim for a 7-10%…

Layoff and job loss in Alberta oilpatch

Bloody February

The public pictures I as a young, fit guy driving nice BMWs and dressing beautifully. It thinks I must pick up many beautiful women and…

Lessening Rental and Employment Income Tax Bleed

I have been daydreaming about a new plan for 2018 – a new rental condo in the Coquitlam, BC area, but with the smallest downpayment…

Limits of Real Estate

Those financially illiterate, and equity-volatility-averse, will hold onto their properties until very old age, despite cash-on-cash returns that lag behind that of equities. They preach…

30 Ways to Save Money

For most people, a better career and a second side job (even flipping burgers) usually nets more cash at the end of the day than…

The Negative Correlation of Attractiveness, Money, and Women

  You must pick up lots of girls with that car. … bet lots of women look at you. You look hot in that car.…