Akilan's real estate journey is like many others... full of trials and tribulations. Real estate definitely has its ups and downs and it takes a special kind of person to survive them all. However, every once in a while you meet someone who not only conquers their real estate fears, but they go on to scratch their own itch and start a real estate investment business, by investors for investors. In this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, you'll hear how Akilan took his own experience and...
Oct 30, 2019•49 min
Nikole and Matt are back with an update on their journey. HealthNut Nutrition started out as a YouTube channel and now it's a full on rocketing business with an online store full of amazing products and Nikole just launched her own book: The HealthNut Cookbook. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, we go behind the scenes to check in on how their doing, learn about the book launching process and chat about what they're up to next. Enjoy the show!!
Oct 17, 2019•57 min
We get way off topic to start this podcast and don't talk about anything that remotely resembles a condo update until at least the 20min mark. But if you're up for random updates about PRP, Surfing and Tequila mixed in with interest rate updates and a condo chat then this episode is for you. Big shout out to Mike Desormeaux and Carlo Batara who are always willing to jump into an episode without a plan. These guys have a ton of investor real estate experience and it's always a blast catching up. ...
Sep 18, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Going through evictions is never fun, for the landlord or the tenant. Unfortunately, most landlords don't know their rights and don't understand the process. The Ontario Tenant Act is actually pretty useful once you get a feel for it. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, we chat with Licensed Paralegal Kelly Hawkes to break down what you need to know and how it all works, from the first missed rent payment, right to getting vacant possession of your property. You can reach Kelly a...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr 9 min
There are very few people who had a bigger impact on our lives outside of our parents than Dan S. Kennedy. A couple of weeks ago, we got the news that he's in hospice care and we wanted to record an episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show in his honour. He taught us so much about business, marketing, money, wealth and life that perhaps our debt to him can never be repaid. We feel so blessed that he was a mentor to us over the years via mastermind groups, his monthly newsletters, audios, event...
Sep 04, 2019•1 hr 3 min
When we first met Chris Curry, we didn't know what to make of him. He seemed to have a million years of real estate experience at the age of 25. Over the years, we've been blown away at his fearlessness and ability to adapt to any economic situation. He's started and grown more businesses than we can count and helped buy and sell real estate all over Florida. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, we have a casual chat about life, Florida real estate and living life on your terms. E...
Aug 27, 2019•53 min
It has been awesome to watch these guys over the last ten years. They started with buying rental properties in their 20s and have become longtime members of the Rock Star team. Now, they're jumping into the deep end with their largest project to date, developing land and building out their own subdivision of homes in Fonthill, Ontario (just outside St. Catherines). It's amazing what is possible with your real estate dreams when you just keep plowing forward. You can check out all the details of ...
Aug 22, 2019•1 hr
This is the 100th episode of The Your Life! Your Terms Show... crazy!! When we started this podcast we had no idea it would be as much fun as it has been, and we had no idea how much feedback we'd get from you all about it. So thank you for sharing your thoughts, thank you for listening, and thank you for giving us a platform to share some of the good, the bad and even the ugly side of real estate investing. We started Rock Star Real Estate with the idea that perhaps we could help other Canadian...
Jul 31, 2019•54 min
We get asked how the Millennial generation is going to survive in this crazy world all the time. Well here's a perfect example of exactly how a Millennial is taking charge and living life on his terms. Cody Price of MobileTire.ca joined us to share his journey, from starting his business and using his parent's house as a storage facility, to buying vans, hiring people and dealing with demanding customers. He's self reliant and serves as an excellent example of how strong and adaptive the Millenn...
Jul 24, 2019•33 min
If you've never rented out a property before, it can be a bit nerve-wracking, but it doesn't need to be. The process in Ontario is pretty straightforward. In this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, we walk through everything from the ads, to the follow-up process, the application and the Ontario Standard Lease Agreement. There are a few things you should know before handing over the keys to anyone. Together with Rock Star Mike Desormeaux, we go through the process in a step-by-step mann...
Jul 17, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Dan Illman is one of the good guys. He's faced his challenges head-on and won. It doesn't mean that there won't be more challenges coming his way but he now knows he'll crush them when they arrive. He's a husband, father, firefighter (with the coolest pager ever!), a Canadian real estate investor and more. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, Dan shares his story from driving a truck to traveling across Australia and New Zealand for 77 days with his family and a portfolio of real ...
Jul 10, 2019•1 hr 4 min
Negative interest rates seemed like a unicorn type of thing only a few years ago. Then we saw the first bonds in Europe with them and now we see the International Monetary Fund writing guides on how to implement them. These aren't little guides either... they are actual examples of how to enable negative rates on the cash in your pocket. This is absolutely fascinating and terrifying all at once. On this edition of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, we share how they may work and what we can do to ...
Jul 05, 2019•59 min
Both Erwin and Cherry bring a lot to the table individually. Together they're truly a real estate power couple. Erwin has a wealth of knowledge in investing right across Ontario (even though he uses the name Mr. Hamilton) and Cherry has both of a ton of real estate investing knowledge and she's an accountant who specializes in real estate. We feel lucky and fortunate that Erwin has been part of the Rock Star team for almost ten years now and that Cherry shares her accounting lessons with Rock St...
Jun 26, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Whenever we dive into the topics of nutrition and fitness we quickly get lost in the nuance and details. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, Dr. Scott Christie comes in house to share his wealth of knowledge and expertise. We discuss fitness, getting "gains", why feeling sore may not be optimal after workouts, fat burning vs. carb burning, fasting and more. Dr. Scott Christie is a wealth of information and does a good job of keeping us on track during the podcast!! You can learn ...
Jun 24, 2019•1 hr 4 min
James Su is an investor with a lot of heart, a ton of smarts and a huge amount of guts. He started investing aggressively after quitting his corporate job as an engineer, began buying properties locally around the GTA, then started a chain of retail stores before finding his way into large U.S. properties. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, James share this story. The lessons, the mistakes, and the successes. Wait until you hear the price points he was able to buy properties at ...
Jun 04, 2019•1 hr 8 min
John Paul Gulbis is back on the show to chat about what he's seeing "on the streets" all around the Golden Horseshoe. JP Gulbis has worked with investors and Rock Star for over ten years, and he's a wealth of interesting insights and ideas around real estate. Part of the reason we've been able to work with so many investors all around Ontario is because of the help of the amazing team at Rock Star. We discuss rents, property prices in different cities, population trends and more. Enjoy the show!...
Jun 03, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Pierre-Paul may be one of the most passionate Canadians we've ever met. He's passionate about multi-unit apartments, Alberta, energy issues and Canada in general. Heck, he's even passionate about capitalization rates! He's a family man, an investor, an educator and an ex-CMHC underwriter who came back on the show to give us updates on pretty much everything. Hang on tight, we go all over the place in this episode. You can learn more about Pierre-Paul over at www.MultiFamilyInvestingCanada.com an...
May 27, 2019•1 hr 15 min
When we discovered that there was someone roasting beautiful, amazing, organic coffee beans next to the gym we go to, we knew it would be love at first sight. Firebat Coffee was born when Gustavo and Leena decided to leave El Salvador and move to Canada with their children. They left behind their corporate lives and launched a new journey, in a new country! How daring is that? Just our kind of people! On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, we sit down with Gustavo Castelar to chat e...
May 26, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Canada is a wonderful place. Full of amazing people doing amazing things. Petr Kafka is one of those types of people. Not only does he have a PhD, but he also has intimate knowledge of the commercial retail space right across Canada. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, he breaks down how mismanaged malls present amazing opportunities for investors. He also shares his own personal journey of investing and just wait until you hear about his first investment! A pure home run.
May 23, 2019•1 hr 7 min
We are always short term paranoid and long term optimistic when it comes to real estate. One of the reasons we're optimistic is because we study the worst possible case scenarios when it comes to real estate so that we can prepare for what's next. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, that's exactly what we do with Rob Minton from Cleveland and Preston Letts from Chicago who were both running real estate businesses through 2008. You'll hear what happened to property prices, rents a...
May 21, 2019•1 hr 1 min
We met Greybrook Realty Partners co-CEO's a few years back and somehow they let us meet with them several times as we were trying to figure out if they were the real deal or not. We had never met anyone who had invested with large developers like they were. They answered a ton of our questions and we've had a great relationship with them ever since. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we go behind the scenes with D'Arcy McConvey and Dylan Kent to describe how they work. We also ch...
May 09, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Andre Hart is someone who is carving out his own path in life and we admire him for it. He did a year's worth of research and due diligence on Rock Star before jumping in to actually buy properties but once he did there was no holding him back. He started only four years ago, but he's built a team and has some amazing real estate stories already. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show Andre shares his story of being a Toronto Police Officer, moving from Montreal to Toronto and now to...
Apr 26, 2019•1 hr 3 min
We're obviously big fans of real estate, but that doesn't mean we're blind to any possible crashes or corrections. Although we can never predict these things accurately, we can prepare for them. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, we sit down with Mike Desormeaux to discuss the 1990 Toronto real estate crash, the 2007 U.S. real estate crash, and share some of the latest activity we're seeing "on the streets" right across the Golden Horseshoe. Enjoy the show!!
Apr 22, 2019•54 min
Nadeem Ahmed has been with us at Rock Star Real Estate for eight years. He's been a great asset to the team and has worked with investors on hundreds of properties and tens of millions of dollars in investment real estate. So when Nadeem mentioned that he actually found a good property management company, Orangelist (www.Orangelist.com), we knew we had to check them out. On this episode, Eric Clearly shares his story and the birth of Oranglist along with some great property management tips and s...
Apr 18, 2019•1 hr 9 min
It's always great to chat with people who are actually doing what they talk about. Danielle Chiasson is one of those! She is rehabbing properties for fun and profit and dealing with all the madness that goes along with real estate. Danielle has very well thought out plans and has a systematic process for everything she does. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, we discuss her journey and also chat education, appreciation, inflation, teaching your kids about money and other wonderf...
Apr 16, 2019•1 hr 10 min
When Alex walked in the doors at Rock Star as a 19-year-old to pitch us on doing an internship, we were fairly interested. But then when he busted out his presentation on the plans he had for our social media strategy, we were immediately sold. He's proven to be a great contributor to the team here at Rock Star and we're blessed and grateful to work alongside him. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, we chat about University, social media strategy, starting his own business and ta...
Apr 08, 2019•1 hr
Mike quit his job at the government after catching the real estate bug to live life on his terms. He's just the kind of guy we love talking to. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, Mike shares his story, the type of properties he purchased, and the spreadsheet strategy he used to decide quitting his job was the way to go. We also chat how we met at a Biohacking conference in Los Angeles, and Mike shared how he now runs Epic Living Academy (www.epiclivingacademy.com). Great guy and...
Apr 03, 2019•1 hr 10 min
When we asked Daniel Ott to come in and share his story on this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we thought we were going to chat only about "tiny homes". But about 20 min into this episode, Daniel begins unpacking a huge potential opportunity for real estate investors in Ontario. As the housing crisis in Ontario gets worse, (the GTA is expected to grow 43% from 2016 to 2041) tiny homes may offer a unique solution to housing needs across the province... wait until you hear this! Daniel...
Mar 29, 2019•1 hr 6 min
It's not often we meet someone that stuns and shocks us (in a positive way), but Barbie Perry is one of those amazing people. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show Barbie shares her story of leaving high school to work for Microsoft, hiring her Mom, buying farms with her husband, raising kids, competing in BJJ and now Barbie is giving back to the community. If you visit www.elevatabjj.com you can check out what she's up to and for any bracelet purchased Barbie is donating BJJ gear t...
Mar 27, 2019•1 hr 4 min
So we love digging into the economic data and trying to make sense of it all. Specifically over the last decade we used the U.S. data to help us forecast what our Bank of Canada will do with interest rates. As real estate investors interest rates are one of the biggest variables we have, we can't control when it comes to our properties so we pay special attention to any economic data that may gives us clues as to their direction. In this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we dive into U....
Mar 20, 2019•58 min
