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All things related to real estate investing: obtaining a mortgage, accessing your home equity through home equity loan or HELOC, searching for investment opportunities, ways to invest in real estate, and more...

Interviews with real estate millionaires: Alfonso Cuadra

Note from My Smart Real Estate: We continue our interviews with the real estate investors and developers to understand how they started...

Real estate crowdfunding: How to start investing by partnering with experienced investors

The real estate investing world is vast and has many layers. There are many players in this world, different in shapes and sizes. While a...

Exploring the Many Ways to Invest in Residential Income Property

There are many ways to invest in real estate properties, each with pros and cons. Some of them are quite common, and everyone has at...

Interviews with future real estate millionaires: Andrea Gauntlett Warkentin, Alberta

Note from My Smart Real Estate: We continue our interviews with the real estate investors and developers to understand how they started...

A fix and flip type of real estate investing. Its pros and cons. Calculating ROI for fix and flip.

Before we jump into the discussion of the fix and flip type of real estate business model let's discuss the types of real estate income....

Calculating ROI for real estate investment: rental vs. capital gain ROI.

One of the critical questions that each experienced real estate investor analyzes before putting money down is: how much return on my...

Interviews with future real estate millionaires: Dario Silvestri, Ontario, multi-unit investor.

Note from My Smart Real Estate: With this post, we are starting a new category on our blog where we want to interview emerging real...

Schwarzenegger made his first $1 million in real estate investment. Now he has $400 million.

Everyone knows Arnie as a bodybuilder, the youngest ever Mr. Olympia, an actor, and as a governor of California. However, not too many...

How can a real estate investor benefit from interest-only and interest-accruing mortgages?

In this post, we will look into 2 unorthodox types of mortgages that are rarely used but can have some benefits that a real estate...

Real estate investing in Greater Toronto. Looking for undervalued regions in the GTA.

Since the start of COVID-19, the Canadian government started the program to support businesses and the population. With that, it dropped...

What is a reverse mortgage? How does a reverse mortgage work? How can it benefit seniors?

A reverse mortgage is another financial instrument at a disposal of people to withdraw and use their home equity today. I already wrote...

How to use home equity. Investing home equity. 23 ways to invest or otherwise use your home equity.

Home equity is the portion of your home that you’ve paid off plus any increase in its market value over time. In other words, it is the...