Come have bbq for lunch and listen in on this Vancouver realtor & Vancouver Real Estate
Written by Vine Edwin.Hey there!
I am actually having one of the most amazing experiences in my life. Just let me put my laptop down on the table and explain..
I actually standing at one of the most increadible places in Canada right now, The Osoyoos Desert.
And I am a ”tourist”and also an owner at the Casa Del Lago Resort, specifically a resort in Osoyoos. This is actually the only desert in Canada full of wild snakes and rattlers.
And I find myself here because I wanted our team of realtors to have a abbreviated break. You see I am in my own little slice of Shangri-la here and there is something trully increadible about being able to take time off with the people you work with- particular ly in a little holiday town like Osoyoos. Quite simply, knowing that you work with people that are the best at what they do and also being able to enjoy life with them is simply incredible!
Either way, just check this out. About 8 years ago, I started my own Vancouver Real Estate business.
Exactly five years back, that same Vancouver real estate business, allowed me to invest, INVEST!, in more and more reantal houses.
Then three years back, we grew and this allowed us to have our own team of experts- I INVESTED in more people- Great people to work with WITH us!
20 months ago, my real estate strategy allowed me to invest, INVEST! in another property to allow me to do what I am doing right now, throwing time in my laptop in the shores of lake Osoyoos…
So here I am on my laptop, revealing you all about it.
Hmm..but why?
I recall what a hard decision it was to escape the regime of accounting firms to start my Vancouver real estate business. I mean, after spending thousand s of dollars on my Business SFU Education and then putting all those years of really arduous effort into my career, just like walking away, wasn’t really an option. At least it wasn’t really an option that I wouldn’t feel REALLY guilty about it. Especially because I was still paying off my student loans!
I mean don’t get me wrong.
I especially disliked that I was working 9-5 for the man to make their business expand while they took all the credit. But I really LOVED what I was engaged in, I just didn’t want to do it for them anymore.
So I said to myself: ”There is got to be a way to make my education and Vancouver real estate this business of mine.”
Some time went on and, all that affirmation turned out to be was this lip service, and I mean, nothing more than like a mere justification so I could be, you know, bold enough to say to the MAN ”I quit!” and leave my career in the rear view mirror.
So, once I saw my family investing and, they started to create equity, tenant s were paying their mortgages, and they started having more and more free time, and taking more and more trips! And I got thrilled!
Because I saw that this light at the end of the tunnel and it was like this light was screaming YES! I was gonna able to use my madness and my established education and my career investment for my real estate sales career and my Vancouver real estate business! It was all just knowing that my fears were holding me back and I just need to work hard, except NOW I was doing it for me.
Now that I got started… Wow… THE WHOLE THING BLOSSOMED!
And it really wasn’t the case that escaping my 9-5 job and investing in Vancouver Real Estate would be a game changer, I was just kinda hoping it would be.
This exclusive Vancouver real estate investment career wasn’t some part of my master plan of evil scheme. BUT I did have my fingers crossed.
And then finally my first render and first experience at Vancouver real estate investing, resulted in me buying 2 condos using my 2 credit cards, and making over $300 thousand dollars by the time I sold them.
The next 2 times I used my guts, instincts and knowledge to buy real estate, it resulted in more really huge successes! I mean millions of dollars of wealth health and success, and the time to spend them.
It’s all really very simple: Investing in Vancouver Real Estate Rules the Roast! It is one of the easiest and most effective way to increase your bank account and have the time to do what you really want to do in life.
And ya!I did say the fastest and easiest! And its not because I spent 10 years doing this stuff, or because my family has been doing it over 40 years.
Its because like most fundamental principle things, if you have precise information and can follow instructions, anyone can collect gains in Real Estate. Ya! Anyone!
And ya! You know. I guess I’ve earned the right to make that statement.I been doing it for so long and I got a pretty good track record.
Now would you wait just a moment? They are just moving me (by car)to the Spirit Ridge Winery, part of the Nk’mip because its lunch time here in Osoyoos and today’s special is a Grilled Bison Steak with Blue cheese topping.
They also have a wonderful set of wines from the Nk’mip winery. Nk’Mip Cellars is North America’s first Aboriginal owned and operated winery…and it has some of the most magnificent views in the Okanagan.
Let me just finish this…
Ok… delicious… I love paring this bison steak with the Nk’mip Merlot…
So anyway like I was saying: Yup! Anyone can invest in Vancouver Real Estate and when I say anyone, I don’t mean like THE ROYAL anyone that is ordinarily used in these marketing articles.
I mean like Jane Smith from Abbotsford, BC ( no offense Jane). What you think may be a huge risk, is really less risky then staying in that accounting job working for other people! It is actually what has gotten smart investors to a safe retirement for as long as real estate has existed! Your Vancouver real estate will pay for your retirement.. and then some. It’s not cutting edge knowledge and can fit most people’s budgets. Even if you went with a small flat. say in Surrey, for like regular market appreciation, we are still talking about a$1,300 per month income. And that is just ONE apartment! Now think about how big of a portfolio you could have a few years later…
That it what it takes for you to start!
My main point here is, a simple strategy and courage is what it takes to get something in your life that has consistently amend wealth and money time and time again in most people’s lives.
You know. I am just thinking about what I just said and it occurred to me that it might be kinda unearthly to be here bulleting out how easy and effective it is to invest in Vancouver real estate while I am working on investing on buying more and more real estate. I mean think about how much real estate is worth! Just one parking spot in Coal Harbour costs way more than my vehicle!
However, Real Estate is a different wildcat, they are big and expensive one, and while I am on this animalistic analogy click, what you need to have, own, beg, work, slave away at, or borrow, in order to own an investment property is about equal to the complexity of raising a hamster.
My first Vancouver real estate investment buy was done with 2 credit cards that I got from University. and I had a connection with an international terminology school where I could get international students to rent my condos and of course I had to buy used furniture for my 2 apartments so the students could nap there and I also provided them with internet service, tv, a telephone and a computer. I let each apartment to pay my mortgage for 1 year, then took my first profit s out.
The point is, that was a simple creative strategy that I came up with at the time. It PAID my mortgages. Those apartments generated a total of $3,000 per month. That is $36,000 per year income on 2 credit cards. Even if the market swaybacked to zero, those flats would provide me with a $36,000 of retirement income when I was, 25 years older, providing I had not sold them for a $200,000 profit. Not brain surgery! Just a little hard work.
Listen..there are heap of excuses for you not to invest in Real Estate in Vancouver. Here are just a few things in case you are feeling overly enthusiastic and ready to try new stuff and just need a little negativity in your life. nice guy aren’t I?
So… ground s why I am not Buying Real Estate to improve my life and my family’s life.
Number 1.
I am Ugly and Lazy. My tenants won’t want to see my face when I go to collect rent and I don’t want to collect rent.
Number 2.
I don’t have enough time to look at buying an investment property because my job requires me to work too much, and even though I know that if I buy say 2-3 condos in my lifespan I could be earning the same amount of money in the end, I would rather drag on to slave away for my boss.
Number 3.
I don’t think I know how to invest in Vancouver real estate very well, because every time I go out to look at Vancouver properties I feel like my 3 year old knows better about real estate than I do.
Number 4
Real Estate freak s me out. After spending all year paying my landlord’s mortgage and seeing that all of richest people in the world made their money buying and holding real estate. WHEN I get home and try to get mine I get all weird.
Number 5.
I am pretty happy with the stage of income I make right now. Real estate? Pfff!
I mean, why would I want to try to improve my wealth tenfold or improve my life leaps and bounds through real estate?. I mean pff! What’s the point?
Here are some well mannered answers to the above questions:
In case you didn’t get the satire in the above questions, let me just lay them directly.
Here are some semi witty answers:
Number 1.
I am Ugly. PLEASE – You have a beauful concept and that’s what trully matters!(really, you are already beautiful if you’ve read this article to this point)!
Have you seen me when I go to collect rent on a Friday night Oct 31st Halloween night? THAT was by far the best looking I have ever been when I went to collect rent. My tenants actually thanked me for wearing a mask!
I am Lazy? PLEASE! Get off your cubilcle:
Here is what you need to do to collect rent from a tenant.
a. Put keys in your car, turn it on.
b. Drive to your property, park.
c. Knock on the door, be polite, and collect rent.
d. Place rent in deposit slip and deposit into your bank, drive back home.
If you want you can also hire a firm to do it for you. Got it?
Number 2. Ummm READ Number 1, the lazy part. PLEASE!. Unless you are ok at slaving away for a few more centuries and you want to look back and say ”I wish I bought 5 years ago.”
Number 3.
I don’t know how to invest in real estate very well.
Believe me. Your 3 year old probably does not know more about real estate than you do. What they DO have so far is no FEAR.
The rest is easy. Have courage, knowledge and make sure your property cashflows in a good fundamentally good area that will grow over a LONG PERIOD OF TIME.
Here is how simple it is:
1) Get a realtor to look for qualified properties
2) Buy Property, rent it
3) Collect rent from tenants
4) Sell property or hold for profit
5) Make more money than my own boss over and over again
6) Retire with Wealth and happy
This Is a simple concept. It is exactly that simple. The only thing that stops people from doing it is FEAR.
We will hold your hand if you like, but you must have courage. Pure and simple, the rest is easy.
I mean, sure. any market will go through its ups and downs, what market is not cyclical?But what matters is that all real estate in British Columbia will be higher in 10 years from now and guess what? Your renter paid for your entire real estate while you slept! Well. you did have to collect rents once a month for about 1 hour per month or so. And there was that episodic leak in the basement where the plumber charged you a little for altering up the downstairs kitchen sink. Sorry, some work, a little cost, HUGE CAPITAL GAINS. Got it?
Number 4.
Real Estate Freaks me out.
Well. DEAR READER. Real Estate Investment is gonna require that you spend a few sleepless nights to get used to. Sorry if it freaks you out!
Why don’t you try to think of it as that thing that could turn into an in-home ATM, handing out cash out each calendar month Maybe that image will freak you out less.
And its TONS MORE FUN! When I say owning property is tons more fun than going to work everyday nine to five, believe me, I MEAN IT! ITS WAY MORE ENTERTAINING:D
”But Richard I am distressed that my Vancouver investment won’t rent out. What will I do if I can’t rent it out?” Rest assured when I tell you there is a 99.0% chance, in most of the lower mainland, that you will rent your property. Seriously. The vacancy rate in most of the lower mainland is almost 0%!
This means that you have about a 1% risk of not finding a tenant.
I firmly beleive that the risk that you may lose that accounting job is higher than that!
”Richard, the Vancouver real estate market may dip in value.” Ahem. what market doesn’t? Markets will go up and will go down. That is the nature of real estate markets.
The Vancouver real estate market has shown consitency over many years…What I can show you is that The Vancouver Real Estate Market has consistently grown stronger and stronger-over the course of 10-25 year terms! And did I mention that your renter paid off that mortgage by the time you retire? This means you will gain access to FREE rental proceeds coming in every month without having much effort – that’ passive income!What retirement pension plan does THAT?
The point is, if you are an investor don’t worry about the MARKET, because it it’s the DEAL YOU MAKE that matters. If you are covering your mortgage payments, KEEP IT and you will have doubled your wealth every ten years.
2 DRASTIC CONCLUSIONS HERE:
1. Even if all you did was allow us to show you how to buy 2 CASH FLOW properties TODAY, there is a greater than 51% chance that you will be more financially stronger than most of 95% of your co-workers who go to work 9-5 every day (not that there is anything wrong with this).
2. We can show you how to figure out WHAT AND WHEN TO BUY, just like with all of our clients and our seminars (we spend a ton of time showing you and identifying what to purchases and how to purchase it), because its like a formula. Our game plan works time and time again.
Number 5
You’re very happy with your wealth right now and you have not had to buy any property and you are gonna stick to your RRSPs and GICs and you have a bank account with interest savings and you are all set.
Well, that’s amazing! I am indeed happy for you… I for one am also content to have what I have and free up my time with charity work
I am very glad also that you do not need any more TRUE INDEPENDANT WEALTH in your life. Perhaps this is a content spot in your life and you need this as it allows for you to have a safe lifestyle. Congrats – I’m not being critical here!
BUT PLEASE! Don’t look back 10 years from now and say, ”I wish I had bought real estate 10 years ago because it has doubled in value.” I hate to do this, but I am going to show you a sneaky sales technique(called future pacing), that sales professionals use to certify value. The only difference is: I am going to tell you I am doing it.
You see this?This is a chart showing over 25 years of real estate values in Vancouver. You see that? That shows that it has CONSISTENTLY grown upwardly for 25 years. Of course, there were ups and downs!But as long as you purchased a cash flow positive property and were nice to your renter, then you rode out all of those peaks and valleys! You see? This sales technique show you with strong evidence that as long as you purchase a cash flow house in vancouver, your Vancouver property will more than increase in value much more 5 years from now.
Well, it’s bbq time here in Osoyoos, we are gonna cook stakes in our bbq especially because we have a sundown and everyone likes to watch sunsets while cooking a steak – especially cooking for a great group of people like my familiy.By the way, the only spice I use on my steaks is sea salt. Great way to tenderise and spice up the meat.
Be right back…
I love my bbq and my sunset.
Now, I got conjointly with my team during our bbq and asked my group this question ”What is going to be our greatest task when it comes to telling about real estate investment to all our clients?”
And they all agreed: ”Richard, some clients are all thinking that the Vancouver real estate market has increased too much and they will want to wait for the market to dip again.”
FACT: It makes perfect sense why someone would come to such conclusion, but there FACT is that there is only 2 types of people out there. 1) Those who invest and 2) those who don’t. Period.
Professional Buyers know that its not what the market does BUT WHAT THEY ARE DOING that matters.
And here is why..
You always carve out your own market and your own deal whenever you purchaset an investment property. It does not matter what the market is doing.There are numerous properties out there and so much opportunity that these investors are aligning long term with low rates!
Got it? Now look, I think this is gonna be a little Bagger Bond…but I think our team of experts is the best group of humble people in Vancouver that can guide you on any real estate investment strategy you can possibly ever think of in British Columbia – in any market.
We give the exact solutions to the investor in one simple and effective package, making it easy and seamless for you, the investor.
As a Vancouver realtor I will finish by saying: I made my money by BUYING REAL ESTATE, NOT SELLING IT. If you wanna learn exactly how to make money and wealth in your life, our team has a proven real estate formula and have repeated success for our clients time and time again – regardless of the market.
Just to make the weighting a little EASIER- we offer a free consultatory analysis of your plans and future goals and dreams and assure you we will show you just how easy it is to start in real estate investing, which is going to generate more wealth, more revenue, more time to spend doing what you’ve always wanted to do and an healthy retirement.
Well, looks like our week time is up here in Osoyoos. well at least for this weekend. I am going for a dip in the lake now and later joining my crew for a little cocktail party. I hope they have a good gin for my martinis. 
Oh, don’t forget to visit our Vancouver BC Real Estate website and see just how we do it for yourself
Listen, we DO THIS EVERYDAY and I know its a wonderful system. You do too! After all, you would not have read until here if you didn’t think alike.
Bye for now!
Richard Morrison.
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