The Housing Wave Could Crush The Middle Class w/Victoria Suen #293 Victoria is the founder of Build X Design, an architect studio specializing in housing densification projects, based in Toronto, and she purchased her first investment property at age 19, and has helped over 100 investors complete projects! Victoria is focusing most of her work in Toronto these days, and we dive into the different zoning changes that are happening and some of the final numbers as examples for renovations; what’s ...
Aug 08, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 293
International Mortgage Solutions For Canadians - Jeremy Friedberg Jeremy Friedberg, who runs an alternative financing company for Canadians called Seaport Credit Canada, flew all the way from Cancun Mexico to join me for an unscripted chat about alternative financing! Seaport helps Canadians by providing alternative financing solutions to Canadians purchasing real estate outside Canada. They also help Canadians access flexible funding for property investments around the world. Jeremy breaks down...
Jul 24, 2025•50 min•Ep. 292
How to Pivot: Market Insights, Pre-Con Fixes & A New Game Plan - Dan Patton Dan Patton & Quinton Cordick join me for an unscripted chat about talking all things mortgages! We got into Dan’s upbringing, and what prompted him to get into mortgages; how he started a mortgage company with his good friend Dave Butler; the peak of success with BM Select, and how they’ve had to reexamine their business after the pandemic; some of the new products that BM has introduced to help investors with de...
Jul 10, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 291
Mindset, Real Estate & Taking The Leap - Kathryn Almeida & Karen Mejia Kathryn Almeida & Karen Mejia join me for an unscripted chat about what it takes to be an agent in 2025 with SmartHomeChoice! They are hardworking members of the SHC team, and have been for over 2 years. They’ve had some bumps in the road, and they are here to talk about all of them including: What is it like working with buyers and sellers in this market cycle; The importance of financial checkups with their clie...
Jun 25, 2025•45 min•Ep. 290
A 5 - Year Game Plan To Mortgage Freedom For Millennials - AJ Scott & Nicole Kichko On this episode I welcome relatively new investors AJ and Nicole, who are young but are already on the right path to financial and mortgage freedom, and on the way to a very early retirement. They started investing only 5 years ago, already own 3 properties and are here to share their incredible story and journey so far! The strategy they’ve used so far is house hacking, where you purchase a home but either r...
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 289
Is It a Crash Or Opportunity? Christopher Hummell and Quinton Cordick join me again for an unscripted chat about what they are seeing in their interactions with clients, and what’s happening AWAY from the headlines. We’ll give a market update for Toronto, Durham region and Peterborough, listing numbers, average prices and what’s going on in the condo market, and MORE! If you are looking for answers on the current market and where things *might* go in the near future, and is this still a good tim...
May 29, 2025•54 min•Ep. 288
The Science To Mental Clarity - Dr. Carlos Yu On this episode I welcome back good friend, personal physician and presence therapist Dr. Carlos Yu. Dr. Yu, has 35 years of clinical experience, loves cold plunges, and taking care of his patients with radical new approaches to mental health. Today we talk about presence therapy, ear acupuncture, what’s causing so much depression and anxiety today, we dive into AI, the importance of regular breaks and mini retirements that I’m huge on, and closing t...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 287
How To Live In 50 Different Countries While Investing - Brian Davis This week’s guest is Brian Davis, personal finance writer, investor and co-founder of SparkRental.com , a fractional real estate investment company. Over 2 decades in real estate and the finance industries, while also hosting the Live Off Rents podcast, he also contributes to Bigger Pockets. Starting out working for hard lenders, he saw how investment can build wealth and passive income, he started out buying rental properties. ...
May 01, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 286
The Future Of Canada: Four Faces, Four Visions Michelle Butt holds and honours in linguistics, is a Master NLP coach, and facial intelligence expert. After studying human communication for over 15 years, and developing her facial intelligence body of works, she knows how and what drives people. She’s also the founder of Face Talk Academy, helping others coaches, healers and leaders to see their own faces and the faces of others as the blueprint for success. Today we chat about What is facial int...
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 285
From Corporate to Entrepreneur: What Does it Take to Succeed - Sibtain & Insiyah Panju Sibtain Panju and Insiyah Panju are spouses and coworkers! They are cofounders of Pragma Inc. and Expand Weather Real Estate Trust. Their goals are to help investors add value to multi family properties. Their portfolio grew to 8 figures in 3 years! We chat about moving from the corporate world to being entrepreneurs; a real estate strategy that they are using RIGHT NOW that works; their thoughts on the pr...
Apr 03, 2025•52 min•Ep. 284
Grass Roots Fund Raising: The Art of the Deal - Mathew Frederick Previous guest Mathew Frederick (EP 107, 127) joins me again to teach new investors how to look for funding to scale your portfolio massively! Mathew has mentored me and my team, but today teaches you the percentage to allocate to the 5 things you need to know to be successful in your grass roots fundraising. For new investors or people considering investing in real estate, this is a MUST! Plus I share a few quotes to get you motiv...
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 283
Wholesaling Blueprint: Start or Scale Your Real Estate Business - Thia Velinor Previous guest Thia Velinor (Ep. 136) joins me again to catch up with her wholesaling business, and what other projects she’s working on. This is a major player in the wholesaling market and owner of Velinor Properties Inc. A single mom, she’s faced some tremendous obstacles in her life, but always knew she wanted and could have more. She gives advice on how to start your real estate journey for someone with 0 experie...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 282
What It Takes To Become a Top Performer - Jas Takhar This is part 2 of our conversation with Jas, a Toronto native and trailblazing entrepreneur, and the force behind FTGU - From The Ground Up Academy. He empowers professionals with game-changing training, and is the host of the Jas Takhar podcast. We dive into Traits of top performers; how to manage and leverage your CRM effectively; what’s more important - mindset or a good CRM?; downsizing and living a frugal life; content creation; topics to...
Feb 20, 2025•37 min•Ep. 281
You Are Enough - Jas Takhar This is part 1 of our conversation with Jas, a Toronto native and trailblazing entrepreneur, and the force behind FTGU - From The Ground Up Academy. He empowers professionals with game-changing training, and is the host of the Jas Takhar podcast. We dive into mindset; how we have a shared experience in seeing Tony Robbins; the fear of judgment and how to overcome it; how to be a great event and podcast host; how to treat your employees; how to manage and leverage your...
Feb 06, 2025•35 min•Ep. 280
Renovations, Rent Controls & Essential Tools for Landlords - Kayla Andrade This is part 2 of our conversation with Kayla, chatting about rent control and whether it’s effective and what are other provinces doing; what is a renoviction and how are they being handled; we chat about tools that some landlords are using such as Front Lobby, Openroom, LandlordEzy; lease agreements, and MUCH more! Contact Kayla Facebook Page: OntarioLandlordsWatch Facebook Group: 818378618219840 Instagram: ontlandl...
Jan 23, 2025•35 min•Ep. 279
Cutting The Red Tape: Top Challenges Landlords Are Facing Today - Kayla Andrade At the beginning of the year my wife and I plan our goals for the year, and we’ve been doing this since 2009. I’m doing something different with the intro at the start of the year. A couple things I do which you can try is call clients or business partners while driving, and listen to podcasts. I also share the top 10 tips that had a huge influence on my life in 2024. Then we get into the conversation with Kayla, cha...
Jan 10, 2025•40 min•Ep. 278
2025 Predictions From Canada’s Top Mortgage Broker - Dave Butler Canada’s #1 rated mortgage broker from 2017 - 2021, frequent radio guest Dave Butler from Better Mortgage Select joins me in studio. Dave’s companies have handled over 26,000 mortgage loans and $9.6 Billion involved, so he’s qualified to talk about the many new changes coming; Government announcements including the cut to the HST, and will it drive and fuel higher inflation again, and lead to smaller rate hikes or a pause; the rece...
Dec 19, 2024•37 min•Ep. 277
Mortgage Market Update From Canada's Top Broker - Dave Butler Canada’s #1 rated mortgage broker from 2017 - 2021, frequent radio guest Dave Butler from Better Mortgage Select joins me in studio. Dave’s companies have handled over 26,000 mortgage loans and $9.6 Billion involved, so he’s qualified to talk about the many new changes coming to mortgage rule changes; the new mortgage changes in January 2025, and a recent market update, including rates and amortization periods, and MUCH more! This is ...
Dec 05, 2024•35 min•Ep. 276
Bank on Yourself: How Infinite Banking Is Changing Wealth In Canada - Darren Mitchell Darren Mitchell, entrepreneur, real estate investor, financial educator and founder of Control & Compound Financial joins me in studio to discuss his 20 years of experience helping investors and business owners explore the possibilities and potential of Infinite Banking. Traditional financial advice sometimes favours the institutions so Darren switched his focus on wealth building that actually works, both ...
Nov 21, 2024•56 min•Ep. 275
Advocating For a Fair Rental Market For Small Landlords w/Kevin Costain EP 274 Kevin Costain from SOLO (Small Ownership Landlords of Ontario) joins me on today’s podcast to discuss all the challenges small landlords face with rent control, LTB issues and MORE. Kevin has a background in technology, is a small landlord, a small business owner for 20 years and currently sits on the board of SOLO but will be chairman in 2025. SOLO educates and assists small landlords navigate all the unique challeng...
Nov 07, 2024•54 min•Ep. 274
Scaling A Portfolio Through Strategic Renovation & Refinance w/Cory Matthews EP 273 Cory Matthews joins me today in studio. He’s a realtor and investor in the Niagara region, and he focuses on finding deals, fixing them up using a very conservative strategy; why he started his real estate journey; the DIY strategy vs. Subbing out the work; working with his partner, and how he divides the work up; what type of interest rate he goes with exclusively; what LTV he prefers not to go higher than; ...
Oct 24, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 273
The Real Truth About The Impact Of High Interest Rates w/Leo & Jacqueline Francis EP 272 Leo & Jacqueline Francis are the owners of Francis Five Properties. Jacqueline is a certified self image coach, helping others escape limiting beliefs, and Leo has a dump truck company. They started these before becoming investors, and we chat about transitioning to their real estate journey from 9-5; the stress of holding properties as the interest rates climbed; how they leveraged private money for...
Oct 10, 2024•58 min•Ep. 272
Financial Management For Real Estate Investors w/Stefanie Beharry EP 271 Stefanie Beharry, a seasoned RE investor who also has a strong background in corporate finance joins Quinton Cordick and I in studio to talk all things finance, self employment, and managing your own finances. Having kids made her want self employment for the scalability, the time freedom and never retiring from a ‘job’ she loved. How did she make the transition; What is a fractional CFO; How to manage your finances as a RE...
Sep 26, 2024•55 min•Ep. 271
Are Tax Changes Crushing Small Business & RE Investors w/Fabio Campanella #270 Fabio Campanella from the Campanella Group, my personal accountant since Day 1 of my investment journey is back on the show to talk about tax changes made by the Liberal government, that have had a significant effect on not only for small businesses, but the middle class; we dive deep into the capital gains tax, and what exactly is being taxed - small businesses, real estate, stocks, etc; the difference between pe...
Sep 12, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 270
The Microcosm of the Mind w/Gail Sauer #269 Gail Sauer, naturopathic doctor, founder and director of Silver Spruce Naturopathic and lifelong learner joins me to probe the mind - the effects of the pandemic; what social media is doing temporarily and permanently to our minds, with infinite scrolling and comparing ourselves to others; anxiety, depression - their differences and some of the causes, and some of the solutions by changing your mindset to be able to successfully process information wit...
Aug 29, 2024•58 min•Ep. 269
Transforming A Single Family Home Into 4 units w/Victoria Suen & Michelle Miranda #268 Victoria is the founder of Build X Design, an architect studio specializing in densification, based in Toronto, and she purchased her first investment property at age 19; and Michelle who was looking to create generational wealth along with her husband, began investing during the pandemic, picking up 2 off-market properties, one in Peterborough and one in Toronto, which has almost been turned into a 4 unit...
Aug 14, 2024•56 min•Ep. 268
Tax Implications of Pre-Construction Assignment Sales w/Fabio Campanella #267 Fabio Campanella from the Campanella Group, Gary’s personal accountant since Day 1 of his investment journey is back on the show to talk about taxation on pre-construction condos. Is taxation different if you move in vs rent out your condo? What rebates are currently available; what is the anti-flipping law and why you should be aware of it; what is an assignment sale and do all condos allow this; why some investors in...
Aug 01, 2024•52 min•Ep. 267
How To Become A Social Media Influencer w/Jayden Kennedy #266 Jayden Kennedy, real estate broker, former pro athlete, community volunteer and passionate financial literacy advocate joins me in studio to chat about how she got into real estate; overcoming the fear of the camera to succeed in social media; building her audience on Insta, and tips that can help you use social media more effectively; How to create a 6-figure income from social media; how she comes up with content ideas and what to s...
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 266
The Rules Are Always Changing. It’s How You Play The Game w/Alfonso Cuadra #265 Alfonso Cuadra, founder of Wealth Genius, founder of Cuadra Youth Foundation, coach, mentor, trainer and a 24-year investor with a multi-million dollar portfolio drops back into the studio to talk about mindset; financial literacy for youth and adults; what is wealth genius and future plans for it; where he thinks the market is going; mistakes investors have made in recent years; HIS personal rules for investing; and...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 265
Real Estate Trends & Affordability Concerns With TRREB w/Jennifer Pearce #264 Jennifer Pearce, President of the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) and broker/owner of Re/Max Rouge River since 2000, joins me in studio to talk about current trends in the market; prices within the GTA; what are the growing areas within the GTA; what are some of the factors contributing to the affordability crisis; what is TRREB doing to help address these issues currently and for the future; what are so...
Jun 27, 2024•45 min•Ep. 264
