College Instructor Invests in Real Estate: Duplexes, ABNB, 11 Plex
The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians
Release Date: 08/15/2024
Lazy, Remote, Across CAN Investor & Big Results Over 20+ Years
The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians
Hey friends, this is Erwin Szeto, and welcome to The Truth About Real Estate Investing for Canadians, where it’s my job to interview the top minds in real estate and business to uncover the strategies, mindsets, and habits that actually work—especially in today’s market. My guest today is Michael Ponte—a full-time real estate investor, educator, and co-founder of Savvy Investor. He’s been investing for more than 20 years and owns a multi-provincial portfolio that spans Alberta, BC, and Atlantic Canada. He’s raised capital, survived multiple recessions, and built a strategy around...
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Mortgage Market Update: Canada & USA w/ Unicorn Mortgage Expert Scott Dillingham of LendCity
The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians
Greetings friends, this is Erwin Szeto, and welcome to The Truth About Real Estate Investing for Canadians, the #9 ranked podcast for Canadian Investment and Personal Finance per FeedSpot! Thank you listeners and past guests of this show! As always it’s a honour to have this platform and ability to give back to the community that has been so much to my family and I where we all share a passion for the best investment class in the world: real estate. Here on this show, it’s my job to interview the top minds in real estate investing and business to uncover the strategies, mindsets, and...
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Powerhouse Conference: Kevin O’Leary, A-Rod, Dragons Michelle & Manjit — 1 Stage, 5,000 Attendees
The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians
✅ Understand why investors are shifting to U.S. markets ✅ Learn how to raise capital and structure bigger deals ✅ Hear what it takes to put 5,000 investors in a room with A-listers Ever wonder what it takes to build Canada’s biggest investing conference? My old friend Seth Ferguson, returns to the show, after losing all his rental properties to a nasty divorce along with his golf clubs, he started the Multifamily Conference in Covid in 2022 which was excellent, 2023 was headlined by Grant Cardone & Alex Rodriguez, 2024 Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort and Robert...
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Another Trip Around the Sun. The Worst Year for Real Estate in My Experience.
The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians
It’s not all bad 🙂 Thank you to everyone who took time out of their busy schedules to wish me a happy birthday. The vast majority of messages came from the real estate investing community, and reading all the comments and seeing the names brought back a lot of memories—many from easier times for real estate investors. My fellow escape-room-loving, nerdy friends attempted to be among the elite 4% who successfully escape... #FAIL This mango cake tasted better than it looks The Problem: The Changing Real Estate Landscape, for the Worse Since the peak of the market around...
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From RCMP to Developing 66 and 20 Unit Apartment Buildings
The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians
From RCMP to Developing 66 and 20 Unit Apartment Buildings: Marc Amyot's Journey of Strategic Development Strategic Partnerships Matter: How mentorship from industry experts transformed Marc's real estate investing approach Location, Location, Innovation: Marc reveals how strategic site selection, zoning knowledge, and maximizing land use can turn a $640,000 property into a $7 million development project Breaking Down the Numbers: Inside two projects - a 66-unit and 20-unit apartment development, revealing the power of creative financing and value engineering Dive into the fascinating world...
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From Burnout, Heart Attack at 38 to 200 Doors & Financial Freedom & Top Coach
The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians
On to this week’s show! This week we have an amazing guest who’s been on a bumpy path. I’ve known Ryan Carr for quite some time but when I attended Truth Your Talent’s Awards Gala, the coach who had the most award winners and thank yous was Ryan hence I invited Ryan Carr onto the show which he gracefully accepted. From household $400k income, Corporate Burnout to 200 door real estate portfolio and more importantly Financial Freedom: Ryan Carr's Remarkable Journey What happens when a high-powered sales executive suffers a stress-induced heart attack at 38? For Ryan Carr, it was...
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$35K in Tenant Arrears: Solving Landlord Woes with OpenRoom
The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians
On to this week’s guest! I’m thrilled to introduce Wei Ting, an unstoppable entrepreneur, speaker, and innovator reshaping the rental landscape in Ontario with plans to expand across Canada. After losing over $35K to non-paying tenants and spending countless hours navigating Ontario’s complex rental compliance laws, Wei Ting decided enough was enough. She co-founded Openroom, a bold step toward building a transparent and connected rental ecosystem for landlords and tenants alike. And if that wasn’t enough, she’s also a 24/7 on-call mom to two little ones under two years old. Wei Ting...
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"From Rent To Ruin" With Kevin Costain
The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians
On to this week’s guest, Kevin Costain is the poster boy for reform being needed in Ontario and he’s doing something about it as the new Chair of SOLO: Small Ownership Landlords of Ontario. He’s fighting for the small everyday investor like I do. He is the author of the book “Rent To Ruin” where he documents his ordeal with his tormentor: the tenant living in Kevin’s house. It is an all too common story where an everyday homeowner has a life change, makes what used to be a financially pragmatic decision to rent out his house to Barry instead of selling it. What proceeded to...
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From School Teacher to Real Estate Chief Education Officer & 580 Doors With Quentin D’Souza
The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians
On to this week’s show! We have my old friend Quentin D’Souza returning to the show at my request as I need a trustworthy real estate expert to share with you the listener about the multi family market who’s not going to sugar coat how tough the last few years have been and what and where the opportunity is going forward. Quentin is going to share his journey, how he does hard things and involves his family to lead his best, most successful life possible. Quentin is founder, Chief Education Officer of Durham Real Estate Investors, a private membership group of many excellent real estate...
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Ontario Rental Market Update w/ Rent Panda
The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians
On to this week’s guest! Again, Hart is a friend, I refer him clients all the time for tenant location services. This may sound like a paid endorsement and full disclosure, Hart Pays me nothing. We receive zero compensation for me having Hart on this show and sending him referrals. It’s too bad we’re selling the rest of our Ontario portfolio in the near future so I could have asked him for favours but no. Nothing LOL. Which I don’t mind so my judgement is not clouded. We get a long because we’re both on a mission to help Canadians get a head in life without taking away...
info_outlineWe have a college instructor on this week’s show! Brian Gordon is an old friend of mine from years ago, he works full time for the largest appraisal company in Canada, if not North America in Management. Prior to that he worked as a Senior Property Tax Analyst for one of Canada’s largest REITs, if not the biggest.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brigor/
Brian has been methodically growing his own real estate portfolio over 7 years consisting of duplexes, a AirBnb in Blue Mountain, more recently an 11 plex development where he’s adding two additional units.
As mentioned Brian is the course creator and instructor of “Real Estate Investment Strategies” at George Brown College, a comprehensive, yet affordable course which is one of the big reasons why I wanted him on the show. Real estate investing is largely about return on investment and that includes one’s education. This course is only $392.24 for 20 hours including private 1 on 1 consultation time with Brian. What an absolute steal.
Link: https://coned.georgebrown.ca/courses-and-programs/real-estate-investment-strategies-online
Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed recording this episode for you all to learn Brian’s tips and tricks so we may all improve our own businesses and you’ll want to hear about where Brian’s next investments will be and his views on Canadian opportunities.
Please enjoy the show!
Follow Brian on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acquiring_wisdom/