Well Off Podcast

Brian Gordon is a Real Estate Investor, educator and mentor. Currently, his investment properties include duplexes and vacation rentals. Brian has over 22 years of education and experience in real estate investments, appraisals and property restorations. On this episode, we discuss:.

Starting out with duplexes and shifting to vacation rentals

Why having clear goals is very important at the beginning of your investment journey

How he’s able to invest while working full time

Numbers breakdown of a short term rental property in the Blue Mountain area (purchase price, rent, current value)

Recent triplex purchase and his plans to turn units around

Expanding into the Florida short term rental market

You can reach out to Brian on instagram @acquiring_wisdom

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Guy is the founder and president of Penguin Basement. Penguin builds, all types of spaces including a "Finish it Yourself" (FIY), personal use basement and Accessory Dwelling Units/Basement Apartments. Growing to serve all markets from London to Ottawa. On this episode, we discuss:

Basement conversions

Productive building - systems to renovate quickly

Creating a walkout separate entrance 

Permits - all-in-one vs individual

E-gress windows - criteria and procedure

Finish it yourself solution for basements

How his business has changed in the last few years

Garden suites - general costs

You can reach out to Guy by visiting basementscanada.com

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Eileen Fauster is a registered Acupuncturist, Holistic Nutritionist and founder of Essential Balance Holistic Health, located in Woodbridge. She helps clients with a variety of health concerns: fertility and hormonal imbalances, digestive issues, food sensitivities, anxiety/depression, joint pain, migraines and chronic health issues. This is part two of two and on this episode, we discuss:

Dairy and milk - why it’s so hard for the body to digest

Cortisol - what spikes it and its relation to stress

Impact of coffee and caffein, including its affect on pregnancy

Marijuana - impact on the body

You can reach out to Eileen by visiting www.essentialbalance.ca

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Eileen Fauster is a registered Acupuncturist, Holistic Nutritionist and founder of Essential Balance Holistic Health, located in Woodbridge. She helps clients with a variety of health concerns: fertility and hormonal imbalances, digestive issues, food sensitivities, anxiety/depression, joint pain, migraines and chronic health issues. This is part one of two and on this episode, we discuss:

Fatty liver (alcohol, processed foods, fast food)

The relationship between the gull bladder and the liver

Animal fats vs fish

Alcohol - which type is the easiest for your body to process?

Carbonated drinks (Perrier, Sodastream, Bubly)

Sweetners (aspartame, stevia)

Nitrates (preservatives - cold cuts, fast food etc)

You can reach out to Eileen by visiting www.essentialbalance.ca

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Ian Poulin is a young investor, construction company owner and realtor. He does it all while working a full time job at Volkswagen. On this episode, we discuss:

How he juggles having a FT job and running 2 additional businesses

How he grew his construction business as a side hustle

Important things to note when hiring trades

Setting standards and making sure his construction sites stay clean

Creating systems to make sure trades work in an efficient sequence

Some of the tools he uses to manage his time and businesses

You can reach out to Ian by visiting ianpoulin.com

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Tammy DiTomaso was a self-employed Aesthetician for 17 years and at age 40 made a career change into real estate and investing. Tammy specializes in duplex conversions on the Hamilton Mountain, in Welland and in Brantford. She’s a wife and mother of 2. On this episode, we discuss:

How dinner with a friend lead to a career in real estate

The key to finding duplex conversion opportunities

Why the Hamilton Mountain is ideal for conversions

What’s on her “conversion checklist”

Her list of conversion deal breakers

The typical purchase price, reno costs, ARV and rents

You can reach out to Tammy on Instagram @tammyditomaso

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Jon Tenbrinke is the owner of Black Jack Contracting Inc. - a full service contracting company. They focus on working with investors to help meet there goal and make the process easy. Their primary market is Legal Second Suite construction and investment real estate construction Jon is also an electrician by trade and offers full service electrical contracting. On this episode, we discuss:

Completing 230+ duplex conversions since 2017

When you should vs shouldn’t get permits for construction

The process of fire separation between units

Splitting utilities

Gas or electrical appliances?

Underpinning vs bench footing

The recent increase in cost of materials

What to look for in construction contracts

Rough estimate on renovation costs per unit

You can reach out to Jon by visiting https://blackjackcontractinginc.ca/

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Ara is a structural engineer now real estate investor who started his own construction company and focuses on duplex conversions, multi-family properties and soon to be garden-suites in the Cambridge & Kitchener area. Ara also is an advocate and loves doing stock options trading. With being married and having 3 young children, Ara has juggled a lot in the past couple years but is seeing the rewards from all his hard work.

Getting fired a few days after transferring companies

Getting the investment bug and becoming obsessed

Studying and completing duplex conversions in Cambridge and Kitchener-Waterloo

Juggling family and work

Learning to delegate to free up family time

You can reach out to Ara on instagram @poladianconstruction

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With 31 years of real estate investing, Mathew has experience in residential, commercial, development, USA, & Belize property. His repertoire includes, flips, lease options, commercial buildings, new development projects & self-storage. On this episode, we discuss:

Buying 16 homes with his brother

Self storage pros, cons and cash flow

Why he likes strip malls and commercial real estate

RIP system (recession proof, internet proof and pandemic proof)

Mixed use and multi unit properties

Investing in Belize

You can reach out to Mathew by visiting rccsol.com

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Mike and Mark from Peak Property Investments have developed a proven system based on sound, strategic real estate investing principles. They are multi-unit (apartment building) investors in Southern Ontario. Many of their buildings are in Hamilton, Ontario. On this episode, we discuss:

Why Mike is still working after many years of investing

Buying value add properties with negative cash flow

Setting expectations around turning units over

Types of renovations in their units to maximize rents

Separating meters - does it make sense?

Staying up to date on commercial financing options

You can reach out to Mike and Mark by visiting http://www.peakpropertyinvestments.ca/

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