Starting an Amazon Business
Hello Real Estate Investors!!
Along with all you do-gooders and entrepreneurs; parents who are hustling hard for a brighter future for your families!!!
Last week was a great week because of how my less conventional diet changes have worked out.
About 2.5 months ago, I started intermittent fasting and time restricted eating: basically instead of breakfast, I have half a cup of coffee with a tablespoon each of grass fed butter and organic coconut oil. That’s it until I eat a bit before my noon time workouts: usually a banana and protein shake with a bunch of amino acids. Lunch and dinner are bigger meals and I do my best to eat healthy, I rarely drink but I’m hardly perfect. I just ate a slice of birthday cake while writing this post. 🙂
Note that I’ve done this all under the watchful eye of my doctor, so don’t try this at home, but I did try this twice before, suggesting to my doctor we try this out more regularly.
Admittedly, I don’t know the science but again, my doctor recommended intermittent fasting and time restricted eating after I learned UFC world champion Georges St. Pierre was doing the same to treat his colitis. We’re not on the same level, but I’m naturally high stress and I train a bit: 4 times per week (twice Crossfit and two or more Brazilian Jiu Jitsu).
Knowing the science or not, last week was test week at our Crossfit gym, we tested: front squat, push press, strict hand stand pushups and strict pull ups. I set personal all time bests in each movement.
My previous best front squat was 265 pounds, test results = 300 pounds. Hand stand push ups, five weeks ago I did 13, last week 18 (one lower than the gym record and tying gym owner, Dan, who is one of the best athletes I’ve ever met), push press 205 pounds and 16 strict pull ups. Also I had some great sessions at Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, I still lose (quite badly) to the better practitioners, but I scored two submissions.
Overall, I am the strongest I’ve ever been while only doing Crossfit twice per week, I’m only one pound heavier and I appear to have less fat. I may not understand the science, but I’m more than happy with the results.
At my next appointment with my doctor, I’ll be asking if we can increase the fasting periods, as the schedule I currently follow is considered one of the easiest.
Starting an Amazon Business
Does is seem like Amazon is everywhere? They sure seem to be creating jobs in the thousands each time they are in the news: 3,000 jobs in Vancouver and, more recently, announced another 1,000 in Ottawa.
I’m fasting on Amazon, along with breakfast, but I can’t help but buy lots of books on my kindle, as I love reading it to fall asleep each night. But our household still buys tons off Amazon: phone cases, organic coconut milk, belts, hard drives, nail clippers, web cam, microphones (I simply look around my desk and sadly see hundreds of dollars spent buying off Amazon! LOL).
The Amazon marketplace is often the first place I look to shop, for convenience and home delivery. That’s where this week’s episode comes in as my friend and client, Kensen Wah, took the deep plunge to leave his successful career at a big bank to start his Amazon business and he’s here on the show to share how he started and his progress.
To Listen:
Google Play: http://goo.gl/CAM5Mn
On Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=87335&refid=stpr
Show Notes:
Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&me=A383GP6YI87PZY&page=1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenduranceclub/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheEnduranceClub/
Kensen on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kensen-wah-5736b619/?locale=de_DE
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On Saturday, I got my Crossfit report card from my head trainer, which is awesome because he took time out of his busy schedule at no added charge to review my performance, grade my efforts, and provide feedback on areas of weakness and strength.
This month I’m testing out time restricted eating (TRE) thanks to my bleeding edge doctor, Dr Cowan. To improve my digestion I am restricting my eating to when I normally eat breakfast, 7:30am for a 12 hour window ending at 7:30 at night. I’m not trying to lose weight though, just improve my energy and improve my digestion (apparently all high level athletes have elite level digestion, it’s how Michael Phelps could eat McDonalds and still collect Gold Medals).
Have you been to Ghost Busters virtual reality game at the Rec Room just south of the CN Tower? It’s a lot of fun!! This was my second go of the game, and this time was with my brother and my very silly childhood friends.
what’s actually going on in the real world, plus the game is sensory overload with ghouls and ghosts and marshmallow men attacking you. I highly recommend!!
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As with my real estate investing, I prefer to operate differently than the masses. We avoided the crowds of February 14th by enjoying a quiet night over at the local gastro pub while watching Raptors game on TV. 😃 My wife, Cherry, shares my passion for Toronto Raptors Basketball and we don’t have cable television anymore, so our dinner date was a treat on many levels. We even went home at half time to read bed time stories to the kids and put them to bed, as one of my favourite things in the world is have both kids on my lap and reading to them. It really was the perfect evening. The Raptors won via another brilliant performance by the bench, who are very fun to watch. They play at a frenetic pace and execute well.
This past Friday, the Mr Hamilton/Halton REI/Titan Realty Investment Group (yes we have another new brand, more on that another time) team finally found time in our collective schedules to celebrate a successful 2017 over dinner at Milestones and a somewhat friendly, trash talk filled, bowling competition. In the picture at dinner, I’m holding baby Owen. He goes everywhere with Jay and Erika Spencer, so don’t be surprised when Owen makes an appearance on a St. Catharines investment property tour or your private one on one showing.
I actually led for a bit after being one of the worst in the first two games. The point I’m making is no one always wins and not all tests are successful. Investing is no different. I’ve tried day trading, investing in stocks and bonds, small cap, blue chip, tech stocks, mutual funds, online poker etc… Am I a failure? Maybe, but I didn’t give up and that it’s how I arrived at real estate. Nothing has come close to the returns of our real estate. Other than real estate, I invest in some private equity in land development north of Toronto. Haha! I can’t wait for my review with Certified Financial Planner Kathleen Van De Berg to see what a professional thinks of being a little concentrated in real estate. In the end, I’m all about results, and not too concerned what other experts think…. unless they make greater returns with low risk somewhere else, then I’m all ears!!! That’s actually a great segue into this week’s podcast! SEO! High return with less investment.
giant tree, and, the star of the show, Santa!! Santa asked my kids if they knew they had brought Christmas magic with them. My kids had no clue what he was talking about, but then Santa reached behind my daughters ear and illuminated a light within his glove between his index finger and thumb. The look of astonishment on my kids faces made me nearly lose my composure. I couldn’t have been happier with the experience, but my daughter had more in store for us.
Who doesn’t like live music, especially when they put on THE BEST live performance. My credo is, life is all about experiences. I recommend you catch USS if they’re ever playing a gig near you. At the show in Hamilton, I had a great time with my friends Mike Gillespie, St Catharines investor extraordinaire; John Roumanis, Hamilton investor of $600,000 in 6 Years fame; and Steve.
Championship in shocking form. You can’t tell from the picture but we were all jumping up and down when Georges connected with that short left hook. We were so loud we woke up Cherry. 😛
Here’s what my friend Monica said, who is a busy mom with three young kids who could only make the VIP lunch. She’s also an ultra successful investor:
Last Thursday, I had the honour of representing the HamiltonBasketBrigade.com on Cable 14’s “City Matters” to share our story of humble beginnings of plans for Roger Auger and I to deliver groceries for a Christmas dinner for three families each and now we’ve grown with YOUR HELP to provide for 300 families in need this Saturday!!
This week I’m excited to bring to you my friend and client Kaush Nanubhai (pronounced Koh-shh Na-new-bye) who started off buying condos in downtown Toronto as a young professional Accountant as he described buying a condo better use of his disposable income than drinking and partying. Many years later and having bigger goals in mind including more income and improved lifestyle, he’s now built himself a sizeable portfolio now at 11 investment properties, acquiring eight of them in the last four years with plans and joint venture partners for many more. Learn about what Kaush wishes he could go back and do over, what drives an already successful professional like Kaush to do even more, how he’s created more time for what’s important, time with family and taking care of his health. Kaush invests in student rentals and legal basement suites in Hamilton, St Catharines, Welland, and Niagara On the Lake.
This week I’m excited to bring to you the return of Charles Wah, you might remember him from our land development interview six months ago and he’s fresh off the set of Scott McGilvray’s newest show to give you all an update on his land development projects and the new investments and building development projects he has on the go. We’ll take a sneak peak at the behind the scenes of HGTV’s biggest star, how Charles spends his off time, and we will share our thought’s and lessons from the phenomenal Archangel Summit. It was so good, we already purchased our VIP tickets for the Archangel Summit in September 2018. You want to know WHY this super successful and very young investor does what he does? Then have a listen….
Who wants to golf?! Not me. Swinging golf clubs is tough on my shoulders as it’s repetitive, I swing way too hard, and I have no technique. It all started when John from podcast episode 6-years-part-time-and-600k-in-returns reached out asking if I wanted to golf and I responded, let’s do something fun instead. The somewhat local gun club (Silverdale Gun Club) had a special on a sniper rifle package and that’s what we did on a Friday afternoon at the gun club. We shot a couple rounds with an AR15, SKS, Remington 700, and the big daddy of them all, BMG 50 which weighed in at 34 lbs and each additional bullet would cost us $15 per. Don’t worry if the gun names mean nothing to you. I have no idea either, this was only my third time ever holding a gun in five years…. Our instructor Eric was patient and excellent and the gang agreed, it was better than playing 18 holes. We all had fun but make no mistake, the afternoon was a productive one because everyone one in attendance is an active investor with numerous properties and leaders in their fields. When you spend time with like minded people, you are guaranteed success. You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
We are also moving our meetings to a new location: we’ve out grown the Rock Star Office’s training room, though we loved the price and convenience, we could use more space for comfort and to allow more attendees as in the past, we’ve had to wait list and turn away people. We want everyone to have a chance at financial freedom so we are relocating to the Sheridan College’s Conference Centre located at 1410 Trafalgar Rd, Oakville, ON, just north of the QEW.
I am super proud of my little cousin Christopher, here I am wearing his Timmy’s visor. He’s not really little anymore as he just turned 17 but he did get a summer job at Tim Hortons. He’s still in training but the plan is he’ll keep working when he’s back to school to save up money for a car. Christopher is crazy passionate about all vehicles: tanks, planes, trains, cars, bikes. I seriously ask for his advice when buying cars but I have to temper his preferences as he seems to think I operate without a budget. I don’t need a BMW M3 or M5, I don’t care about the extra 2-300 horsepower, I care about my monthly payments and how much of my lease is tax deductible
large portfolio of buy, rent and hold investment properties with her husband. She co-founded a property management company based in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Elizabeth also runs a boutique Rent to Own company, which specializes in providing home ownership options for families.
We’ve had guests in the past from the other side of the country. Don Campbell, who resides in British Columbia, Pierre Paul Turgeon, who’s from Alberta. This week our guest, Andy Tran, is on the other side of the world in Japan, visiting his wife’s family. I’ve been friends with Andy since 2009, when we met at a mutual friend’s birthday and ran into each other again at REIN. Andy was one of my first clients, as I helped him purchase investment properties in Hamilton back in 2010, but now the tables have turned as I have hired Andy to prepare my investment property for a legal basement suite conversion. As always, I believe in hiring the best to work on my business and it just so happens that Andy is a leading expert in accessory apartments in the golden horseshoe of Ontario. Andy is guiding me and my property through the city’s permit process including building code, certified drawings, working with the city’s planners and inspectors etc… stuff that I neither enjoy nor have time for.
