Life’s Unfairness
Growing up in BC often involved a theme of unfairness in a lacklustre economy, where unless you came from a family of privilege, connections, and…
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Return on Equity of Real Estate
For things like real estate, most dream about increasing cashflow as the mortgage is paid down, and the ultimate dream is paid off properties that…
Quick Briefing of Investing
There’s no true financial advisor; most are just salespeople. People who are actually “good” at making money are busy doing it amongst themselves and don’t…
Aggressive Real Estate: One large home with HELOC vs. Multiple Properties
My objective to a Ferrari by 30 (or, financial freedom for that matter) has revolved around a theoretically simple yet in practice, complex strategy: Acquire…
September 2017 – Month 52 in Alberta
Outsmarting the banks hell-bent on stopping risk takers such as investors, volatile high-income employees, and entrepreneurs. Shielding the fruits of my labour from the government…
Summer and Year 5 In Alberta: Strategic Implications
A new piece of real estate every year. Ferrari by 30. My decision to pack my bags and drive here with only my belongings in…
August: Working for up to 16 hours/day, for 2 Companies
The summer days pass by bathing in my own sweat beneath 2-3 sweater thick coveralls under the scorching Alberta sun, and inside a vacuum or…
Sour Memorairs of Vancouver
Despite doing much better these days in Alberta, the words echoed to me almost daily since I was a child still remind me of my…
Self-Sufficient Investment Property Portfolio Growth
“5 is the magic number. Eventually, [investment properties you acquire will] pay for more of themselves.” At a dinner with a good colleague of mine…
Tears From Vancouver to Alberta
It has been almost 4.5 years since I threw all my stuff in my car and drove away from Vancouver to Alberta, not looking back.…