Oh, where to begin!

We bought a house so we are moving to be closer to our office so our kids can be closer to us. 

The new house checks many boxes for what we were looking for… It has a pool, backs onto a pond, a walkout basement, an inlaw suite, fully renovated, great schools in walking distance.

It’s kind of funny to see my handyman working at my house more than ever. Normally, all our investment properties get all the investment. We never even painted our house when we moved in. It’s now finally getting painted seven years later!

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It’s a funny thing to move homes!

My kids were born here and my vision was to leave this house to our kids for when they want to settle down but plans change. I look forward to the challenge of maximizing the sale price of our home to minimize the size of the new mortgage.

Because I don’t practice being a realtor on a regular basis, I will enjoy the opportunity to practice my sales skills like I did when I listed our investment property and sold it for over asking, firm last month.

As a concerned parent, I’ve asked some friends about kids moving schools including super apartment building investor Brian Pulis of Pulis Investments. A REIT of apartment buildings.

Anyways, one of the silver linings of the pandemic is my kids can’t play with the neighbour’s kids and only half the students of their class actually attend in-person classes as my kids do. 

Now, the new house has a pool, the parks are bigger and closer to home, and the rear pond freezes in the winter for pond skating so we’ll have lots of fun things to do at the new house.

As the year 2020 is winding down, I’ve done a lot of reflecting with Cherry and my team on how this year went by fast and at the same time, I think we aged at least three years. 

I’m looking forward to slowing down in December to recharge as it’s been quite a sprint. 

Even without doing a conference this year, we still did a bunch more than we had planned to do. We delivered a series of emergency webinars with tenant management experts, Cherry a government subsidy expert, Diane Digiandomenico my super property manager friend.

Thankfully the government stepped in with CERB and rental income started coming in.

We talked several investor clients off ledges.

I had one client tell me his mentor sold all his investment properties and he was asking me why I wasn’t doing the same… in hindsight, we got lucky and we had our best year for price appreciation.

Stock Hacker Academy in partnership with Lee Lowell was a massive success. We have one more proven method to help hard-working Canadians create a six-figure side hustle aside from investment real estate. 

We actually had feedback that Cherry and I’s big hairy audacious goal of helping 10,000 folks create six-figure hustles for themselves was too low. LOL.  

The website is www.stockhackeracademy.ca. 

I know many of you are skeptical which is totally cool. I was too and just like real estate, the most common regret among stock hackers is why didn’t they start sooner. 

It’s not the worst thing to wait, our last course was the best we’ve delivered to date and our next will be the best as well as we roll out additional education modules to ensure the success of our students. 

2021 will be a big year for our wealth hacker community and I hope you’ll be a part of it. 

Fingers crossed we can deliver a live and in-person conference late 2021 and if not then, early 2022.  I’m already working on another major keynote speaker and stupid excited about it.

How Dave Knight Got Started in Real Estate, Graduated to Wholesaling and Flipping, and Giving Back to the First Responder Community

Dave Knight is a full-time Police Officer who outside the workplace has been able to grow a multi-million dollar rental income portfolio…

He has since written a book, audiobook and created a course intended for first responders to expose the many possibilities to invest in real estate.

Full disclosure, Dave is a past client of ours, a friend and like all my friends I’m teaching him stock hacking so he may share that with his community as well. 

After all, everyday heroes need six-figure side hustles too and thank you to all first responders for your service.

HELP US OUT!

To Follow Dave: 

www.911wealthnetwork.com

https://www.facebook.com/dave.knight.5815

https://www.instagram.com/daveknighter/?hl=en

Before you go, if you’re interested in being a successful real estate investor like those who have been featured on this podcast and our hundreds of successful clients please let us know.

It is our honour to give back and educate others on how we build cash flowing real estate portfolios using all the best practices shared on this podcast, from the lessons of our hundreds of clients and of course our own experience in owning investment real estate.

If you didn’t know already, we pride ourselves at being the best of the best real estate coaches, having the best property managers, contractors, handy people, cleaners, lawyers, accountants, everyone you need on your power team and we’re happy to share them with our clients to ensure your success. 

New investor or seasoned veteran investor, we can help anyone by providing our award winning coaching services and this isn’t all talk.

We have been awarded Realtor of the Year to Investors in 2015 by the Real Estate Investment Network, 2016 by the Canadian Real Estate Wealth Magazine and again in 2017 because no one told the judges no one is supposed to win the award twice but on merit, our peers deemed us as the best.  In 2018, we again won the same award by the Real Estate Investment Network.

Hopefully being the most decorated team of Realtors in Ontario will make you consider us for your first or next real estate investment.  Even if you don’t invest in our areas, there’s a good chance I know who would be ideal for you. 

I’ve been around for a while, some Realtors are talented at servicing investors there are many with great ethics.  The intersection of the two, talent and ethics is limited to a handful in each city or town.

Only work with the best is what my father always taught me.  If you’re interested, drop us an email at iwin@infinitywealth.ca.

I hope to meet you at one of our meetups soon.

Again that’s iwin@infinitywealth.ca

Looking to add another stream of income?

We just completed the long anticipated Stock Hacker Academy Live Introductory Course and it was awesome!

Stock Hacker Academy is the foundation that has helped Erwin, Cherry and many other Stock Hackers make thousands of $$ weekly and now they never have to worry about money again!

If you desire the same for yourself, click here to register now

NO MORE Confusion

After all the Youtube videos, books, and forum posts, you’re probably still left with questions. Starting in real estate is a tricky thing.

Frustrated beginners often ask how a legal basement suite conversion actually works. Most of the time we can only give general answers. But now, we get to dive in.

At this in-depth, free class you’ll learn how to take your first steps as a real estate investor.

Nothing is held back. Everything from analyzing basement suite conversion deals, to renting out your first property at a profit, and even how to refinance and do it all again!

More secrets you’ll uncover are:

Profiting in a HOT market…

Municipal bylaws to watch out for…

Mortgage terms that favour refinancing…

AND one barely used tactic for higher appraisals…

If you’re frustrated, unsure of how to get started, this is for you.

 Sign up now for the Invitation List and be one of the first to get an invite to the next class.

Sponsored by:

Infinity Wealth Investment Network – would you like to know how our investors returned 341.8% on positive cash flowing real estate over the last five years? On average, that was 68.4% per year.

Just imagine what winning in real estate could do for you.

If you would like to know how we did it, ask us how by calling 289-288-5019 or email us at meaghan@infinitywealth.ca.

Don’t delay, the top markets we focus in are trending upward in price, so you can pay today’s price or tomorrow’s price.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.

Erwin

Hamilton, St. Catharines and Toronto Land Development, Real Estate Investor, and soon to be builder.

W: erwinszeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Hello, My Fellow Wealth Hackers!

A quick share on something that’s always served me well.

I have an open mind, it’s something my dad taught me as he comes from a science background, to be inquisitive, but not naive. 

It’s served me well as an investopreneur as there are naturally tons of ways to lose money.

I’ve lost lots of money on poor investments, bad contractors, bad employees, bad Marketing and social media services.

I’ve had dentists try to sell me expensive work I didn’t need (my dad’s old business partner is a dentist. He’s very out of the way for me but I’ll make the trip for a second opinion not once but twice).

I’ve had a Realtor tell me a sixplex needed $70,000 to increase the property value by $200,000 yet the property had been listed for two months already and was being sold by a well-known slumlord.

He didn’t know who I was nor my buddy who is a Fireman as we stared in amazement at the wood fire escape that looked ready to fall off the building and didn’t even have steps that made it to the ground by about 10 feet.

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Anyway, one of my mentors is investing heavily into Bitcoin which has been on a tear. 

Personally, I’ll wait for a pullback before getting in but I did purchase some Ethereum and I’m up around 60% ROI in just a week. 

I also own some gold and gold miner stocks. 

When smart people who have an extensive track record of making money share advice with me, I listen, research and take action.

Saying no is also action…

I say no way more than I say yes plus I have Cherry to vet my ideas since she sees hundreds of tax returns. She knows where people make and lose money. It’s that simple.  And by track record, I mean at least ten years.  With great references… And not because they have a youtube channel or a podcast.

This week we’re going to the mailbag to answer some questions.

“Hey, Erwin! Love the real estate podcast but I’m also interested in the stock hacking side as well. Just curious on average what amount of money is invested for these kinds of returns?”

A: No different than real estate, returns vary between real estate investors. 

For example, this week’s guest Mat Piche makes more money on his investments than I do. Our appreciation might be the same but he has his own construction crews, own home staging, etc…

From what guests have shared on this podcast, Joel Arndt who works for me is averaging 4% per month since June and just did a 7% cash return in November. 

Ron Esteban, a school teacher who will be returning to the show is averaging a couple thousand dollars per week.

Kris Lewis is averaging 1-2% per week since April I think. 

Michael Bugg, a veterinarian was averaging just over $3,000 per week. 

Of course, the past does not predict the future.

My real estate client Andrew is an outlier as he’s shared with me he’s returned 200% as he correctly invested in mostly electric vehicles manufacturers and some stay at home stocks.

I honestly don’t even want to share these grand slam returns my friends are getting because it’s crazy but it’s the truth.

Myself, it’s been a great month, I’m up 20% in November. I realized $4,200 US today.

Follow on question: “have about 5k at the moment I’m willing to invest, do you think it’s better spent on education or learning what I can now and taking action? I understand you have multiple stock hacker courses at different levels. Where would you recommend I start?”

Answer: The answer depends.

When I was younger my focus was first on maximizing my job income so I can save more and get more credit for mortgages hence I invested in my own training.

I have consumed a lot of Brian Tracy’s books and programs including Psychology of Success and Psychology of Sales. I soon after switched roles in my company from Operations to Product Management and received a 40% pay increase as I was taking more responsibility. 

A few years later, I became a successful Realtor very fast. I started in the summer of 2010 and in 2011 I earned six figures in commissions. 

Both the increased salary and career in real estate allowed me to become a much better real estate investor and qualify for more credit”

I don’t mind answering questions from listeners, just please don’t ask me to mentor you, I have kids and team members and clients I’m responsible for.

On to this week’s guest in Mat Piche…

I invited Mat to come hang out, record a podcast, I showed Mat and his excellent videographer Tyler how to Stock Hack. 

We went to Virtual Galaxies to shoot zombies in virtual reality where we walk around with game controllers shaped like guns, a headset and headphones, and a battery pack in an empty room but the game is displayed on our headsets.

It’s super cool.

We were joined by fellow investors Seth Ferguson, Andrew Hines, Ron Esteban, Charles Wah and Kevin Huynh – All six and seven-figure real estate investors and professionals.

Needless to say, we had a blast, a lot of laughs, I may have made a comment about how visible minorities never make it out alive in horror movies so our fair skin friends would lead the way, get between us and the zombies. It worked out as Ron and I got the top scores. 

We went for dinner afterwards where the conversation of course covered real estate, private lending, flipping, and stock hacking. 

There are few things I enjoy better than hanging out with like-minded, successful people.  You never know what you’ll learn. 

If safe to do so, I recommend you all do the same.

Our collective mental health has suffered during this pandemic. I hope you’re all taking care of yourselves.  Grab some friends, go for dinner, go for a hike, preferably with like-minded success seeking people. 

Not sure where to find such people, our iWIN meetings are publicly available. In-person is for clients only.  Online is available to anyone.

The January 23rd meeting will feature a market update, what we are seeing on the streets of investment properties and a feature presentation on infinite banking by our guest and Cherry Chan. 

We’ll have Hussein my lawyer on hand as well so attendees have a comprehensive understanding of this secret of the rich.

A personal friend of mine was magically able to obtain 3-4 more mortgages after running into a wall. 

If you’re on my email newsletter, you’ll have the links to register.  Go to www.truthaboutrealetateinvesting.ca, enter your name and email address on the right and you’ll receive updates on the podcast, the show notes and event happenings including Stock Hacker Academy.

Quick stock hacking update:

I’m up 20% return in the month of November and last week I cash flowed $3,000 US. Today $4,200 US.  This is my new normal.

Growing my real estate businesses and four figures of cash flow per week as a side hustle with plans to golf a lot more next year.

www.stockhackeracademy.com for anyone interested in purchasing the course.  If you buy today, you get all the resources, recordings and can attend the next live-streamed course in March. 

Personally, I would want to learn this asap, maybe even over the holiday because if you follow US politics at all, the new President promised a whole bunch of stimulus. 

I’m not a particularly smart person but I’ve done a job of getting in front of monetary trends. www.stockhackeracademy.com

Raising Capital On Social Media, Flipping, Sourcing Flips, Flip Math, Private Lending With The Fruitful Investor Mat Piche

Mat Piche is a normal guy, a third-generation carpenter. 

He used to have a job renovating houses, then he started his own business renovating investment properties for investors. Investors ask Mat if he knew any great investment specialist realtors, he didn’t so he became it. 

Mat started sharing on YouTube back when fire was invented in 2012 and the rest is history. 

If you didn’t already know Mat, he’s very successful and he’s here today sharing a ton of tips, tricks, market updates, so have those pens ready. 

Mat is an open book and he’s dropping gold. 

I give you Mat Piche.

HELP US OUT!

To Follow Mat: 

Youtube: www.youtube.com/thefruitfulinvestor

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matpiche

Before you go, if you’re interested in being a successful real estate investor like those who have been featured on this podcast and our hundreds of successful clients please let us know.

It is our honour to give back and educate others on how we build cash flowing real estate portfolios using all the best practices shared on this podcast, from the lessons of our hundreds of clients and of course our own experience in owning investment real estate.

If you didn’t know already, we pride ourselves at being the best of the best real estate coaches, having the best property managers, contractors, handy people, cleaners, lawyers, accountants, everyone you need on your power team and we’re happy to share them with our clients to ensure your success. 

New investor or seasoned veteran investor, we can help anyone by providing our award winning coaching services and this isn’t all talk.

We have been awarded Realtor of the Year to Investors in 2015 by the Real Estate Investment Network, 2016 by the Canadian Real Estate Wealth Magazine and again in 2017 because no one told the judges no one is supposed to win the award twice but on merit, our peers deemed us as the best.  In 2018, we again won the same award by the Real Estate Investment Network.

Hopefully being the most decorated team of Realtors in Ontario will make you consider us for your first or next real estate investment.  Even if you don’t invest in our areas, there’s a good chance I know who would be ideal for you. 

I’ve been around for a while, some Realtors are talented at servicing investors there are many with great ethics.  The intersection of the two, talent and ethics is limited to a handful in each city or town.

Only work with the best is what my father always taught me.  If you’re interested, drop us an email at iwin@infinitywealth.ca.

I hope to meet you at one of our meetups soon.

Again that’s iwin@infinitywealth.ca

Looking to add another stream of income?

We just completed the long anticipated Stock Hacker Academy Live Introductory Course and it was awesome!

Stock Hacker Academy is the foundation that has helped Erwin, Cherry and many other Stock Hackers make thousands of $$ weekly and now they never have to worry about money again!

If you desire the same for yourself, click here to register now

NO MORE Confusion

After all the Youtube videos, books, and forum posts, you’re probably still left with questions. Starting in real estate is a tricky thing.

Frustrated beginners often ask how a legal basement suite conversion actually works. Most of the time we can only give general answers. But now, we get to dive in.

At this in-depth, free class you’ll learn how to take your first steps as a real estate investor.

Nothing is held back. Everything from analyzing basement suite conversion deals, to renting out your first property at a profit, and even how to refinance and do it all again!

More secrets you’ll uncover are:

Profiting in a HOT market…

Municipal bylaws to watch out for…

Mortgage terms that favour refinancing…

AND one barely used tactic for higher appraisals…

If you’re frustrated, unsure of how to get started, this is for you.

 Sign up now for the Invitation List and be one of the first to get an invite to the next class.

Sponsored by:

Infinity Wealth Investment Network – would you like to know how our investors returned 341.8% on positive cash flowing real estate over the last five years? On average, that was 68.4% per year.

Just imagine what winning in real estate could do for you.

If you would like to know how we did it, ask us how by calling 289-288-5019 or email us at meaghan@infinitywealth.ca.

Don’t delay, the top markets we focus in are trending upward in price, so you can pay today’s price or tomorrow’s price.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.

Erwin

Hamilton, St. Catharines and Toronto Land Development, Real Estate Investor, and soon to be builder.

W: erwinszeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

What was I thinking not hiring a coach sooner?

For regular listeners, you know I’m a big fan of self development, learning, reading, and one of my favourite hacks is having coaches.

I have Crossfit coaches, a Realtor coach, two Stock Hacking coaches, a new real estate investing coach and a pretty new golf coach.

My golf coach’s name is Chris and he’s a lot better than I at golf.  He’s an associate golf pro at a pretty nice public golf course in Oakville, Ontario. He’s a tall, thin, 150 pound scratch golfer and drives the ball 300 yards.  Scratch golf means he’s in the top 1.6% of golfers who report their scores.

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As with anything in life, business, health, investing, I view it all as an experiment. 

When the pandemic hit, the first thing we were allowed to do was golf so I took up the sport.  2020 is the first year I’ve played more than twice in a season so I think that qualifies me as a beginner.

This past Friday I had just my fourth golf lesson with Chris and finally made some massive improvements, the most improvement I’ve made all season.

Right after my lesson, we played nine holes and I proceeded to have my best 9 holes of the season highlighted by landing my ball 12 feet from the hole on a 193 par 3 with my 5 iron. That’s about 30 yards farther than I normally hit my 5 iron and I made the putt for my first birdie of the season. 

The next day, I was golfing with Cherry and ten other friends and I had one of my better rounds of the season include 3 pars and a birdie on the front 9.

What is the point of all this?

After the round was over I couldn’t help but kick myself how if I could do it all again, I would have invested more heavily into coaching near the beginning of the season as much of the practice I did this season was kinda wasted.

This was yet another experiment that proved to me the value of coaching. 

Practice and youtube and reading articles online as much as I did… those tens of hours did not compare to the 4 hours of coaching I’ve received. 

Going forward I will be taking weekly lessons as it is one of my Stock Hacking goals to afford me a nice golf membership.

In my experience, I pay tens of thousands each year for coaching and the investment has returned. 

My question to the listener is where can you fast track your success by hiring a coach? I’ve wasted a lot of time in all areas by not having a coach.

Please don’t make the same mistakes I did.

This week’s guest, 26-year-old Joe Costanza was smart and worked with Coach Tammy Ditomaso from my IWIN Real Estate team to begin his real estate journey. 

If you’re interested in learning for free the same strategy implemented by young Joe who’s increased his net worth by over $300,000 in just 20 months then go to www.iwinrealestate.ca and enter your contact information to be notified of our next free training class on the #1 investment strategy in real estate.

On to this week’s show!

Age 26, Making $300,000 in 20 Months On Cash Flowing Duplexes and 70 Hour Weeks With Joe Costanza

I first met Joe Costanza 20 months ago when he was a starry-eyed 24-year-old who had been hustling since a teenager, working several jobs, living at home to save up down payments for real estate. 

An architect by trade and having tried several side hustles less than successfully, Joe settled on real estate without much support from his parents.

Fast forward to today, Joe owns three properties, two he’s already duplexed and the third to be duplexed house with a joint venture partner. 

This is Joe’s story.  For those who like numbers, we’re pretty heavy with the numbers in this episode so have your pens ready.

I give you Joe Costanza.

To Follow Joe: 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josephcostanza/?hl=en

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joseph.costanza.714

Before you go, if you’re interested in being a successful real estate investor like those who have been featured on this podcast and our hundreds of successful clients please let us know.

It is our honour to give back and educate others on how we build cash flowing real estate portfolios using all the best practices shared on this podcast, from the lessons of our hundreds of clients and of course our own experience in owning investment real estate.

If you didn’t know already, we pride ourselves at being the best of the best real estate coaches, having the best property managers, contractors, handy people, cleaners, lawyers, accountants, everyone you need on your power team and we’re happy to share them with our clients to ensure your success. 

New investor or seasoned veteran investor, we can help anyone by providing our award winning coaching services and this isn’t all talk.

We have been awarded Realtor of the Year to Investors in 2015 by the Real Estate Investment Network, 2016 by the Canadian Real Estate Wealth Magazine and again in 2017 because no one told the judges no one is supposed to win the award twice but on merit, our peers deemed us as the best.  In 2018, we again won the same award by the Real Estate Investment Network.

Hopefully being the most decorated team of Realtors in Ontario will make you consider us for your first or next real estate investment.  Even if you don’t invest in our areas, there’s a good chance I know who would be ideal for you. 

I’ve been around for a while, some Realtors are talented at servicing investors there are many with great ethics.  The intersection of the two, talent and ethics is limited to a handful in each city or town.

Only work with the best is what my father always taught me.  If you’re interested, drop us an email at iwin@infinitywealth.ca.

I hope to meet you at one of our meetups soon.

Again that’s iwin@infinitywealth.ca

Looking to add another stream of income?

We just completed the long anticipated Stock Hacker Academy Live Introductory Course and it was awesome!

Stock Hacker Academy is the foundation that has helped Erwin, Cherry and many other Stock Hackers make thousands of $$ weekly and now they never have to worry about money again!

If you desire the same for yourself, click here to register now

NO MORE Confusion

After all the Youtube videos, books, and forum posts, you’re probably still left with questions. Starting in real estate is a tricky thing.

Frustrated beginners often ask how a legal basement suite conversion actually works. Most of the time we can only give general answers. But now, we get to dive in.

At this in-depth, free class you’ll learn how to take your first steps as a real estate investor.

Nothing is held back. Everything from analyzing basement suite conversion deals, to renting out your first property at a profit, and even how to refinance and do it all again!

More secrets you’ll uncover are:

Profiting in a HOT market…

Municipal bylaws to watch out for…

Mortgage terms that favour refinancing…

AND one barely used tactic for higher appraisals…

If you’re frustrated, unsure of how to get started, this is for you.

 Sign up now for the Invitation List and be one of the first to get an invite to the next class.

Sponsored by:

Infinity Wealth Investment Network – would you like to know how our investors returned 341.8% on positive cash flowing real estate over the last five years? On average, that was 68.4% per year.

Just imagine what winning in real estate could do for you.

If you would like to know how we did it, ask us how by calling 289-288-5019 or email us at meaghan@infinitywealth.ca.

Don’t delay, the top markets we focus in are trending upward in price, so you can pay today’s price or tomorrow’s price.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.

Erwin

Hamilton, St. Catharines and Toronto Land Development, Real Estate Investor, and soon to be builder.

W: erwinszeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Hello, my fellow wealth hackers!!

The secret to happiness is practicing gratitude and I’m grateful I can still go to my Radix Crossfit gym in Oakville. 

I’m thankful several politicians including my local MPP’s who stood up to Doug Ford to not send us back to Stage 2, thus our gyms and indoor restaurants are staying open.

Before anyone gets mad, I get enough hate for doing this podcast for FREE. I’m no anti masker, this is hardly political, but I’ll happily stand up for small businesses since they’re not the source problem. It’s private gatherings and “sources unknown”. 

The sources are unknown because people are gathering in private, getting sick then lying to health officials about it. It’s not rocket science. 

Knowing the greatest source of transmission is private gatherings, why are restaurants and gyms the ones to be shut down and go bankrupt when in my area, they have not been the problem? And from my experience, they’ve invested thousands of dollars and hired additional staff for cleaning, disinfecting and screening.

In my city, the mayor stated how cases are declining below the provincial average and we have ample capacity at our hospitals so why another shut down to put the nail in the coffin of more small businesses.  I really don’t get it. 

Anyways, I’ve always believed talk is cheap and I put my money where my mouth is.

I’m making a $250 donation to MPP Jane McKenna who is not my MPP and I’ve let my MPP know about it.  I let my MPP know that I support leaders who support local small businesses who will stand up to Doug Ford. I’ve said it a couple of times, this pandemic is making people crazy, so that’s enough ranting from me.

The other crazy thing is how not crazy my real estate and stock hacker friends have been. For those who say money doesn’t buy happiness… well apparently it buys sanity. 

Shout out to Shane Layte who DM’d me.  He’s our real estate client and his stock hacking returns this year were 96% but he gave back some to land at 86% currently.  Or his returns are $5,000 less than what he’s earned this year at his 40+ hour job. 

In case I forgot to shout out Ron Esteban, I had lunch with Ron last week, we had him on the podcast just a few months ago but he’ll be coming back asap after he dropped a bomb on me. 

Ron has the highest percentage returns of any stock hacker alumni I’ve seen at 149% but do keep in mind, he’s account was funded by his real estate investments.  You need both real estate and stock hacking to be like Ron Esteban.

Happy Halloween everyone!!

Fingers crossed my costume arrives. I ordered it from Amazon and paid for express shipping. It’s now 9-10 days late. Hopefully, I’ll have pictures to post next week in the badass costume. 

From reading what my friend the infectious disease doctor is saying, we will be walking the neighbourhood with the kids in costume to enjoy the decorated homes. Cherry and I will buy our own candy to give to the kids and hide them around the house Easter egg hunt style. 

I’ll have to figure something that’s healthier as we only let Robin and Bruce eat very little candy so they actually don’t like stuff that’s too sweet as they’re not used to it. So whatever we buy, I have to want to eat it…. Oh boy, I need to get back into the gym more and have my work cut out for me.

In the real estate world, I will be speaking at the Investor Forum hosted by Canadian Real Estate Wealth magazine.

It is my honour to be one of their guest speakers and to share with everyday Canadians the best opportunities in real estate and hopefully, they will indulge me to share about stock hacking… this is the organization that awarded my team Real Estate Agent of the Year to Investors in back to back years 2016 and 2017. 

I will be on an expert panel sharing the when and where and what the best strategies are for 2021 for above market cash flow and returns. 

There is a link in the show notes to join the already 500 Canadians registered for the online conference. 

Full disclosure, it is an affiliate link and any commissions earned will go to my charity the Hamilton Basket Brigade to make sure some poor families in Hamilton will have their best Christmases ever.

Nov 3rd, all day online Investor Forum Conference for real estate investors hosted by the Canadian Real Estate Wealth Magazine.

Link: yourrealestateinvestorssummit.com/yourrealestateinvestorssummit1?affiliate_id=2787942

Now onto this week’s guest, one of my first real estate clients and long-time friend Andy Tran of Suite Additions.

Free Land to Build Basement and Garden Suites To Maximize Cash Flow With Andy Tran

Andy is a former Home Inspector, he’s a registered House and Small Buildings designer, real estate investor, developer.

Andy has a degree in Architectural Science and he’s best known as the leading authority on accessory dwelling units design. In plain English, that’s legal basement apartments or garden suites or the million other names for a self-contained apartment.

Why you need to know about accessory dwelling units is they are the best way to maximize your cash flow and overall returns in real estate.

I give you Andy Tran.

To Follow Andy:

Web: http://www.suiteadditions.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suite_additions/?hl=en

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/suiteaddition

Before you go, if you’re interested in being a successful real estate investor like those who have been featured on this podcast and our hundreds of successful clients please let us know.

It is our honour to give back and educate others on how we build cash flowing real estate portfolios using all the best practices shared on this podcast, from the lessons of our hundreds of clients and of course our own experience in owning investment real estate.

If you didn’t know already, we pride ourselves at being the best of the best real estate coaches, having the best property managers, contractors, handy people, cleaners, lawyers, accountants, everyone you need on your power team and we’re happy to share them with our clients to ensure your success. 

New investor or seasoned veteran investor, we can help anyone by providing our award winning coaching services and this isn’t all talk.

We have been awarded Realtor of the Year to Investors in 2015 by the Real Estate Investment Network, 2016 by the Canadian Real Estate Wealth Magazine and again in 2017 because no one told the judges no one is supposed to win the award twice but on merit, our peers deemed us as the best.  In 2018, we again won the same award by the Real Estate Investment Network.

Hopefully being the most decorated team of Realtors in Ontario will make you consider us for your first or next real estate investment.  Even if you don’t invest in our areas, there’s a good chance I know who would be ideal for you. 

I’ve been around for a while, some Realtors are talented at servicing investors there are many with great ethics.  The intersection of the two, talent and ethics is limited to a handful in each city or town.

Only work with the best is what my father always taught me.  If you’re interested, drop us an email at iwin@infinitywealth.ca.

I hope to meet you at one of our meetups soon.

Again that’s iwin@infinitywealth.ca

Looking to add another stream of income?

We just completed the long anticipated Stock Hacker Academy Live Introductory Course and it was awesome!

Stock Hacker Academy is the foundation that has helped Erwin, Cherry and many other Stock Hackers make thousands of $$ weekly and now they never have to worry about money again!

If you desire the same for yourself, click here to register now

NO MORE Confusion

After all the Youtube videos, books, and forum posts, you’re probably still left with questions. Starting in real estate is a tricky thing.

Frustrated beginners often ask how a legal basement suite conversion actually works. Most of the time we can only give general answers. But now, we get to dive in.

At this in-depth, free class you’ll learn how to take your first steps as a real estate investor.

Nothing is held back. Everything from analyzing basement suite conversion deals, to renting out your first property at a profit, and even how to refinance and do it all again!

More secrets you’ll uncover are:

Profiting in a HOT market…

Municipal bylaws to watch out for…

Mortgage terms that favour refinancing…

AND one barely used tactic for higher appraisals…

If you’re frustrated, unsure of how to get started, this is for you.

 Sign up now for the Invitation List and be one of the first to get an invite to the next class.

Sponsored by:

Infinity Wealth Investment Network – would you like to know how our investors returned 341.8% on positive cash flowing real estate over the last five years? On average, that was 68.4% per year.

Just imagine what winning in real estate could do for you.

If you would like to know how we did it, ask us how by calling 289-288-5019 or email us at meaghan@infinitywealth.ca.

Don’t delay, the top markets we focus in are trending upward in price, so you can pay today’s price or tomorrow’s price.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.

Erwin

Hamilton, St. Catharines and Toronto Land Development, Real Estate Investor, and soon to be builder.

W: erwinszeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/

Hello, my fellow wealth hackers!

How is everyone this week?

A quick update from these parts, unfortunately with the rising daily cases of COVID in Ontario and the ever increasing restrictions, we at the Hamilton Basket Brigade will not be able to throw our birthday style party for the kids and the families we are supporting. 

I’ve regretfully had to inform both Superman and Wonder Woman their attendance will not be necessary.

The most impoverished families as identified by both the Hamilton public and catholic school boards however still do need our support hence we are delivering to them gift cards of $100 each per family member. 

It’s not much but it’s what we can do and you better believe Cherry and I will continue to focus on growing our wealth hacking: business, investing, and stock hacking so we may grow the funding of our charity. 

We don’t just volunteer and raise money, for 2020, Cherry and I are the #1 donors and we’ll be looking to take over the #1 donor spot in history very shortly.

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Shout out to Scott Dillingham and Matt Green for being amazing donors and for making us work for #1.

Practice makes perfect, right? Well no, according to my daughter, she taught us the other night, practice makes progress.

Practice makes perfect describes a finish line but all your wealth hackers know, there is no finish line.  We strive to be 1% better each day or be better than the person we were yesterday, the week or month or year before. 

If you don’t believe me, did you know Tiger Woods did a complete overhaul of his golf swing? After just a few months and winning one in every four tournaments including winning the Masters by 12 strokes, Tiger wasn’t happy and worked with his coach to create a new golf swing. 

That would be the first of a couple times the greatest golfer and one of the greatest athletes of all time would decide his historical dominance of the sport was not enough. He could always improve.

It truly is fascinating to study the super successful. For example, I am asked quite regularly on the benefits of coaching.  To continue with the Tiger Woods example, his first two coaches as a professional golfer are widely consider the #1 and #2 coaches in the sport. 

Don’t worry folks, I’m not offering coaching. I take my work too personally and prefer more control or sometimes lack of control when it comes to my own golf game 😛

How To Cash Flow $400 Per Month With $10,000 to Invest With Joel Arndt

Anyways, this week’s guest is a returning interviewee, Joel Arndt.

When he was on last year, he out of the blue challenged me in my ability to make an investor successful so I had him ask me his questions on the podcast. 

Some time has since passed and I thought it a good time to check in with Joel on his progress.

Full disclosure, Joel now works with Cherry and me in our businesses and like all employees of ours, we teach them to be Wealth Hackers.  We don’t offer pensions but we’ll do our darndest to mentor them to be financially free.

Here is the conversation that came from a simple question when I asked Joel what he would do if he had $150,000 cash to invest.

If you’re interested in real estate investing go to www.infinitywealth.ca or if it’s stock hacking, go to www.stockhackeracademy.ca 

Have you met Joel Arndt!?

Before you go, if you’re interested in being a successful real estate investor like those who have been featured on this podcast and our hundreds of successful clients please let us know.

It is our honour to give back and educate others on how we build cash flowing real estate portfolios using all the best practices shared on this podcast, from the lessons of our hundreds of clients and of course our own experience in owning investment real estate.

If you didn’t know already, we pride ourselves at being the best of the best real estate coaches, having the best property managers, contractors, handy people, cleaners, lawyers, accountants, everyone you need on your power team and we’re happy to share them with our clients to ensure your success. 

New investor or seasoned veteran investor, we can help anyone by providing our award winning coaching services and this isn’t all talk.

We have been awarded Realtor of the Year to Investors in 2015 by the Real Estate Investment Network, 2016 by the Canadian Real Estate Wealth Magazine and again in 2017 because no one told the judges no one is supposed to win the award twice but on merit, our peers deemed us as the best.  In 2018, we again won the same award by the Real Estate Investment Network.

Hopefully being the most decorated team of Realtors in Ontario will make you consider us for your first or next real estate investment.  Even if you don’t invest in our areas, there’s a good chance I know who would be ideal for you. 

I’ve been around for a while, some Realtors are talented at servicing investors there are many with great ethics.  The intersection of the two, talent and ethics is limited to a handful in each city or town.

Only work with the best is what my father always taught me.  If you’re interested, drop us an email at iwin@infinitywealth.ca.

I hope to meet you at one of our meetups soon.

Again that’s iwin@infinitywealth.ca

Looking to add another stream of income?

We just completed the long anticipated Stock Hacker Academy Live Introductory Course and it was awesome!

Stock Hacker Academy is the foundation that has helped Erwin, Cherry and many other Stock Hackers make thousands of $$ weekly and now they never have to worry about money again!

If you desire the same for yourself, Click here to register now

NO MORE Confusion

After all the Youtube videos, books, and forum posts, you’re probably still left with questions. Starting in real estate is a tricky thing.

Frustrated beginners often ask how a legal basement suite conversion actually works. Most of the time we can only give general answers. But now, we get to dive in.

At this in-depth, free class you’ll learn how to take your first steps as a real estate investor.

Nothing is held back. Everything from analyzing basement suite conversion deals, to renting out your first property at a profit, and even how to refinance and do it all again!

More secrets you’ll uncover are:

Profiting in a HOT market…

Municipal bylaws to watch out for…

Mortgage terms that favour refinancing…

AND one barely used tactic for higher appraisals…

If you’re frustrated, unsure of how to get started, this is for you.

 Sign up now for the Invitation List and be one of the first to get an invite to the next class.

Sponsored by:

Infinity Wealth Investment Network – would you like to know how our investors returned 341.8% on positive cash flowing real estate over the last five years? On average, that was 68.4% per year, just imagine what winning in real estate could do for you. If you would like to know how we did it, ask us how by calling 289-288-5019 or email us at meaghan@infinitywealth.ca. Don’t delay, the top markets we focus in are trending upward in price, so you can pay today’s price or tomorrow’s price.

Till next time, just do it because I believe in you.
Erwin
Hamilton, St. Catharines and Toronto Land Development, Real Estate Investor, and soon to be builder.

W: erwinszeto.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erwin.szeto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/erwinszeto/