Learn How to Write Agreement for Sale Paperwork in Canadian Real Estate

How to Buy Property Without a Mortgage in Canada by Solving a Seller’s Problems

How Much Money Can I Make Quickly in Canadian Real Estate?

How Long It Takes to Buy a Foreclosed Property

Three Issues to Negotiate When Buying or Selling Real Estate: Chattels, Defects, and Stigmata

Renovated Basements Without Permits and Inspections Come Back to Haunt Buyers

Third Preventable Flood at Alberta Home; Who Is Liable?

Should a Buyer Accept Title Insurance in Lieu of a Real Property Report and Compliance?

Real Estate Cage Fight: Restrictive Covenants vs. City Bylaws

Three Examples of Real Estate Woe with Permits, Surveys, and Compliance

Rules and Regulations for Secondary Suite Permits Getting Stricter

You Can’t Fight City Hall on Real Property Reports and Compliance

Negotiating Tax on Real Estate Deals when the Seller Is not a Resident of Canada.

Panelists Share Experiences with Creative Real Estate Investing – plus Q & A

Protect Property Against Flooding

Subdividing Property to Increase Density Can Raise Issues with Mortgages on Titles

How to Work with a Property Manager

How to Avoid Bad Real Estate Deals

Get to Know the Real Estate Purchase Contract in Alberta

Inheriting Property Isn’t as Simple as it Seems

Podcast Episode 117. Real estate can cause all kinds of problems when a family member passes away. This Tale is about what happened when someone inher...

Walk Away From a Real Estate Deal at Your Own Peril!

Podcast Episode 116. In August 2017, a buyer walked away from a real estate deal in BC and was sued by the seller when the house later sold for 28% le...

Avoid Jail-time and Make Money: Assigning Offers to Purchase Real Estate in Canada

Podcast Episode 115. In a hot real estate market, flipping properties by assigning your interest in the purchase can be lucrative. Just make sure to d...

Investing with Those Closest to Us Is Fraught with Peril

Podcast Episode 114. When real estate deals with friends and family go bad, you almost never recover your position. Because, what are you going to do,...

Flipping Properties is Risky. Here’s Why!

Podcast Episode 113. "Flipping" is when an investor gets control of a property by signing a purchase contract, but rapidly sells it to someone else fo...

If Disaster Strikes, Will Your Property Insurance Coverage be Enough?

Podcast Episode 112. Insurance adjusters are hired by insurance companies to make sure that any claim is covered by the claimant’s insurance policy. T...

Don’t Lose Time and Money from Outdated Real Estate Documents!

Podcast Episode 111. My entrepreneurial client had found a 30-unit apartment building in Alberta for a very decent price, organized 15 people to put u...

What to Do When Seller Doesn’t Have Leases for Tenants

Podcast Episode 110: One of the seller’s classic mistakes was to take any tenant who came along. If the proposed tenant could pay the first month’s re...

Creative Investing with Foreclosures: Appearing in Court and Taking Notes.

Podcast Episode 109. This Tale is about taking good notes when you appear in court as the buyer of real estate in foreclosure. My client was a creativ...

Is Your RRSP Mortgage Legal?

Podcast Episode 108. In this post we are going to focus on the commercially reasonable requirement for RRSP mortgages in Canada. If the CRA decides to...

How to Lose a Deposit: Unmet Conditions Can Sink a Real Estate Deal

Podcast Episode 107. The notion of doing or accomplishing your own Due Diligence is what allows you to make a buying decision. Will you buy or not buy...

Secondary Suites and Real Property Reports in Alberta

Podcast Episode 106. Are you looking to buy a property with a secondary suite? Ideally, you want to buy properties with legal secondary suites. But gu...

Wills, Estates, and Selling Property

Podcast Episode 105. For a quick review, probate is the process whereby an executor of a Will, usually through a lawyer, makes application to the Prob...

Guarantees, Title Insurance, and New Legal Precedent in Canada

Rare Investing Opportunities with Creative Real Estate Strategies

Struck Corporations, Land Titles, and Tax in Alberta

Legal Suites and Airport Vicinity Protection Areas in Alberta

Podcast Episode 101. Houses with legal suites or houses zoned for legal suites are all the rage in Alberta. Easier to do in Edmonton, though. In Calga...

Success with Buy and Hold Real Estate Investing

Assuming Mortgages and Transfering Property to a Corporation

Disappearing Tenants and Vanishing Buyers

How to Avoid Mortgage Fraud