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Your First Attempt The government uses your desire to be a first-time home buyer to try and buy votes; taking direct aim at your financial bravery. There is no financial risk to the government; it is not their money. What’s another deficit to most governments?  I try not to make my blog about politics; I…

Are Your Finances Scaring Your Pants Right Off of You? One of This Week’s Headlines; Nearly half of Canadians are within $200 of financial insolvency: poll Besides being a headline to unnerve you as a Canadian, it is only one in a succession of headlines over the years. Past Headlines: 2017-05-08 · More than half of…

Home Ownership in Canada is Over!! Recently CHMC wrote that Home Ownership in Canada is over; is this fact or fiction? The head of Canada’s housing-market watchdog says this country places too much value in the dream of homeownership. “In places like Paris and Sydney and Hong Kong and Buenos Aires [and New York], people rent.…

A Scary Moment; What the Health! Don’t let age or the perceived condition of your health be your forever diagnose to life long living. Most of us don’t have a Best Before Date; there are real ways to push your Best Before Date back. Twice a year, I have complete blood work to monitor my…

It is easy to get caught up in all of your problems, and I am hoping the title of my blog post gave you a bit of a jolt. The nice thing about asking you to get off your ass and look for opportunity is we all have regrets. We are not sure how to handle our…

Keeping More of Your Money Over Time In today’s world even with interest rates on the rise the returns you are receiving on your investments in many cases are not matching inflationary growth year to year. Think about this for a second; this means your principal investment is going actually to be worth less to…

Breakthrough to Become a First-Time Investment Real Estate Investor 6 Must-Have Qualities For over 15 years I have been mentoring, advising, and coaching first-time investment real estate investors and there are six distinct qualities I have found in my most successful investment real estate investors. Some of these must-have qualities taught and some you are born…

If I had a dollar for every time I have heard the saying; “ People who can’t do; teach”; my pockets would be full of Fool’s Gold. I have many friends who are teachers, and a universal quality I have noticed about my friends who are teachers is they are “World Class” parents and grandparents.…

My entire childhood spent as a tenant in someone else’s home. My Dad was a proud member of the Armed Forces, and for all of my infancy, childhood and most of my teenage years my parents rented.  We were good tenants respectful of the landlord’s property. I remember a trip my Dad, and I made…

Protecting Yourself with Changing Seasons I am sure most of us have noticed when mother nature changes seasons the weather transition between seasons creates havoc with our health; physical or mental. The heating and cooling trends back and forth take its toll on our physical health and the change from light to darkness or even darkness to…