July 23, 2025 • 17 mins
Lauren Cohen returns to discuss the rapidly changing landscape of cross-border investing and immigration, highlighting how recent political shifts have created new challenges and opportunities for real estate investors across North America and beyond.
• Recent political changes in the US and Canada have prompted people on both sides of the border to consider relocating
• The US market remains exceptionally attractive for investors due to its size, stability, and landlord-friendly regulations in many states
• Immigration policies are changing almost daily, making it crucial to be proactive rather than fearful
• Having proper entity structures and visas in place works as an "insurance policy" in uncertain times
• Overlooked investment opportunities exist in Portugal, Costa Rica, Mexico, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and even Israel
• Lauren's personal immigration challenges with her ex-husband's deportation inspired her career helping others navigate cross-border issues
• Traditional immigration lawyers offer limited services while Lauren provides a holistic, concierge approach to the entire process
• The sequence of steps in cross-border investing is often as important as the steps themselves
• Each investor's situation is unique, requiring customized strategies rather than following generic advice or copying what worked for others
• Working with experts who understand both sides of the border is essential for successful cross-border real estate investing
Connect with Lauren to learn more about her cross-border investment programs and how she can help you navigate the complexities of international real estate investing.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the 5 Questions Podcast, where we
unlock real estate and businessinsights one question at a time.
Welcome to the 5 QuestionsPodcast.
I am your host, Mario Lamar,and today we have a returning
(00:24):
guest on the show.
I wanted to bring her backbecause there's been a lot of
changes in the months that justoccurred in international
business and investing, so letme reintroduce you to our guest.
She is an experiencedprofessional in international
(00:47):
law and cross-border investing.
Nonetheless, none other, Ishould say, than Lauren Corwin.
Lauren, welcome back to theshow.
I wanted to bring you backbecause lots have changed since
we last spoke and a lot ofpeople have questions.
They have a lot of questions,but we're not going to break the
(01:10):
format of the podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's five questions no only five.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So let me start with the first one, Since we last
spoke.
What major changes or trendshave you noticed in immigration
and in investment policies thatreal estate investors need to be
aware?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, there's so many changes we're certainly not
going to get to all of them, butobviously the most significant
one is the change in thepresidency here in the US and
the re-election, I guess, of theliberals in Canada, which has
put some pressure on people thatwant to leave, that are
frustrated with the Canadianside.
(01:49):
And then there's also been alot of people here in the US
that wanted to move north.
So, as a result, I opened across-full-scale cross-border
law firm to help people go bothways.
But investing in the US isstill and always going to be
that much more appealing andprofitable than in Canada,
(02:13):
because you just can't match themarket, no matter what happens
politically.
You have a very strong, stablemarket in the US the largest in
the world, 10 times the size ofthe Canadian market and most of
(02:36):
the states that we helpinvestors invest in are very
landlord friendly, which is notthe case in most Canadian
provinces.
So it's a very differentlandscape, certainly from an
immigration perspective, thechanges are daily, really daily.
I wake up every day like, okay,what's today going to bring?
What's in store for me today,for us as immigration lawyers?
And the key is that you can'tlet fear stop you from taking
(03:01):
advantage of opportunities andthere are opportunities and
they're going to continue to beopportunities and it really is
time to be poised and ready totake advantage of those
opportunities and have yourentity set up, have your
structure set up.
Even if you don't want a visa,get it set up properly.
So if you do decide at somepoint you want one, grab it.
(03:24):
But I would recommend anybodythat's even remotely thinking
about potentially doing a lot ofcross-border business.
Get that visa in your pocket,because it's an insurance policy
and things are changing rapidlyand we don't know when they're
going to impact most of thenon-immigrant visas.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You certainly have good points here and we're going
to jump into the secondquestion right away, because
what you just said ties intowhat I wanted to talk next.
And many investors focus, youknow, in the US or Canada market
, but you've worked globally andI want to ask you what are some
(04:03):
maybe overlooked cross-borderopportunities that investors
might be missing out on?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Well, absolutely, as you know, because I've
introduced you to some of mycolleagues, for example, that
specialize in investing inMexico, in Honduras, in Costa
Rica.
Just a week and a half ago Iinterviewed a lovely girl lady,
woman I guess who moved to CostaRica at the end of COVID and
(04:30):
now they have a developmentcompany in Costa Rica.
They were doing buildingdevelopment in Toronto and now
they're doing that in Costa Ricaand a lot of Central America.
I'm doing a podcast next week,I think, with a colleague from
Portugal because a lot of peopleCanadians and Americans are
interested in Portugal, not justto visit and not just to invest
(04:51):
, but even to move the Dominican.
I'm speaking with the head ofthe Dominican real estate
department on Thursday aboutbringing open, opening
opportunities because, at theend of the day, I think what my
ability has always been,especially, you know, during all
the changes in the day, I thinkwhat, what my ability has
always been, especially, youknow, during all the changes in
COVID my ex-husband beingdeported is the ability to
(05:11):
respond to what people need andmeet them where they are, and
right now they want optionsbesides North America, so we
have to give them to them.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, and and you know you're right in networking
and connecting with differentpeople, not for not just even
from Canada and the U?
S, but there's a lot ofopportunities Now a lot of
investors focused in, forexample, the Caribbean, but
Europe is starting to have to bevery attractive to some
(05:42):
investors like you.
Portugal is one of the markets,so we should open our vision to
maybe more opportunities thatare not really close to us.
But you're certainly right andyou're a good point of entry
because you're a cross-borderlawyer.
You have many, many connectionsthat people, if they have
(06:07):
questions, they can reach outand ask you and maybe you can
connect them.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yes, absolutely.
I'll tell you a very quick,funny, very quick story.
Yeah, during, I think it wasprobably.
Well, it was back in 2021,which is kind of at the.
You know, in COVID I had agentleman and his daughter reach
out to me.
They were realtors from Ottawaand the daughter was desperate
to get out like a grown daughterand we didn't end up working
(06:35):
together and they were justreferred to me two days ago by
one of our mutual colleaguesthat knows about what I'm doing
and they're good friends withone of my clients, so now
they're ready to do something.
I mean, these are long-termrelationships that I build, like
Mario said, and it's not justNorth America, it's, you're
(06:57):
right.
I even help people like investin Israel.
Now people be like why would Iinvest in Israel?
There's a war?
Well, israeli real estateactually the increases year over
year in Israeli real estate issecond to none.
So, even though it's a strong,strong economy and you'll have
(07:18):
to invest where the opportunityis and that's the important
thing.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And that's why you need to talk to people who knows
, because you don't want to makea mistake and invest in areas
where you shouldn't be investing.
Correct Leads us to our thirdquestion and obviously we spoke
about your journey before, onthe last episode, but I want to
come back to this and yourjourney from experience you know
personal immigration challengesto becoming an international
(07:46):
law expert is inspiring.
Can you share how your personalexperience motivated you to
help others with theirimmigration and investment
pursuits?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Sure.
So back in.
I don't even know if it was2006 or 2007,.
I got married to a gentlemanfrom Montreal.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And we, those guys, always get you.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I wasn't going to say anything, but anyway he was not
a French Canadian, but I methim here in Florida.
We got married and we went onour honeymoon to Thailand and on
the way back from our honeymoon, he was put in immigration jail
, expeditiously removed,subsequently deported.
And here I was like what in theworld is going on?
(08:31):
And it was a crazy, crazy thing.
And I was in the process ofgetting my green card at the
time and he did not get a greencard.
He was denied and at the end ofthe day we ended up getting
divorced and probably it was amarriage that never should have
happened, but had it nothappened, I would not do what I
do today.
I wrote my book called Findingyour Silver Lining in the
(08:51):
business immigration processbased on that, because through
all of this adversity is alwayssome type of prosperity and you
just have to find it.
And I found my why to helpothers avoid having a similar
fate to what happened to me.
And that's really what I do andwhy I do it, besides the fact
that I want to create a betterlife for people that are trying
(09:12):
to get away from anti-Semitism,from challenges, chasing their
American dream.
And instead of chasing it,let's find it, let's get it,
let's get it under wraps and getyou into a place where you feel
confident, safe and secure andalso successful.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And I'm going to repeat myself.
I say it all the time, but forour listeners, any dream that we
have, no matter what it is,it's possible.
You just have to connectyourself with the right people
who will help you achievewhatever your dream is.
It doesn't matter, and so youknow if it has to go with cross
(09:51):
border or law, well, lauren isone person you want to connect
with because she can help youachieve many, many different.
You know goals or dreams thatyou have, and this is the lesson
here.
So you know Lauren.
Lauren, you you've had yourchallenges, but now you
understand and you can helpothers.
(10:12):
So it's it's really trulyamazing.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But isn't that how most people come to be who they
are, because they've been facedwith adversity.
It's not like we just sailthrough life and we're like oh,
everything is rosy.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Well, here's the difference.
A lot of people they try to doit on their own and that's where
you know they hit the wall andthey think they, and they start
believing that their dreams isnot possible.
It's not that's not the truth.
It's.
The truth is is they're justnot looking with the right help.
You know you need to connectwith people.
(10:46):
That's how you become successfulin life and in in.
You know, putting your dreamsforward.
You're just not doing it onyour own.
That's.
That's the thing.
Right brings us to our fourthquestion.
You have programs.
We briefly touched on them lasttime, but I want to repeat
myself because I think these areimportant points where people
(11:09):
should know how to emigratethrough.
Real estate is one, and theseven-figure invest to immigrate
program.
Obviously they became morepopular.
We've been talking about them.
You've been helping people.
Can you explain again how theseprogram works and the benefits
they have to your clients?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So one of the big misnomers out there is that
people compare me and my companyto an immigration lawyer.
And an immigration lawyer getsyou papers, gets you a visa,
gets the job done.
You know, usually they're goodat what they do, but it's a
finite scope of work, of work isnot finite.
(11:57):
I am your partner throughoutthe process.
I take clients through thewhole journey of what in the
world do you want to do?
Where do you want to invest?
How do you want to invest?
And the key is that mostlawyers will not help a real
estate investor access a visabecause it's very complicated.
But I created a streamlinedprogram, so my programs are
streamlined.
But I created a streamlinedprogram, so my programs are
(12:30):
streamlined.
Concierge holistic it's anecosystem of service providers
that are all under my kind ofguise, under my roof, like a
general contractor that'smanaging the process of fixing
your house so you can flip it.
Clients, because I'm takingthem through that whole journey,
they're never left withquestions.
You know, if they need anestate, a state's attorney, I'm
going to get that for them.
If they need somebody to helpthem build a trust, I'm going to
get that for them.
If they need somebody to do taxplanning.
I'm going to help them withthat.
So what?
What I do is oversee that wholeprocess to make sure that they
(12:54):
are looked after and their needsare met throughout the process,
and that is something that issuper unique and avoids
piecemealing and struggling andmaking mistakes, because one
mistake could cost you lots ofmoney, lots of time and your
visa.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And sometimes it's not even mistakes, it's doing
things out of order.
Correct, you try to go get alawyer, try to go get this
person, this person, but you'redoing it in the wrong order
could cost you thousands ofdollars.
So the benefit from workingwith a person like you is you
know the order of where itshould be done and that's where
(13:31):
it brings success.
Okay, so already our last andfifth questions for today.
Lauren, it goes fast, but we gostraight to the point Now.
We talked about how complicatedit is for someone to looking to
(13:55):
start with their cross-borderinvestments and starting their
journey into the real estateworld cross-border.
What would it be?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
The most important piece of advice I can give
anybody is don't try to do itwithout the right help and don't
try to do it with just help onone side of the border, because
getting help on the USS side isnot going to help you in Canada.
Getting guidance on the Canadianside about what to do in the US
is not going to help you.
Getting guidance from somebodyin the US about what to do in
(14:25):
Portugal is not going to helpyou.
You need guidance from expertson both sides of whatever the
border is or whatever the sea isor the ocean or whatever, and
working with somebody that canoversee and manage that process
for you rather than you tryingto jump through heaps to figure
it out.
The most important thing thatyou can do for yourself is not
try to do it yourself and reallygo to people.
(14:49):
Don't say, oh well, mario'sfriend Joe did it this way, or
this person in this group did itthat way.
You can't do that.
You have to manage the processand make sure that you get
things done the right way, withthe right guidance and the right
structure and the right people.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
And people need to really understand that each
situation is different.
Even the slightest differencecould cause big impact.
Know big impact or big, bigchanges in the outcome of the
way you do things.
So you know, like you said,it's not because your friend did
it a certain way that you cando it the same way.
(15:27):
You need someone to look atyour situation and tell you
listen, given thosecircumstances, this is the way
we have to proceed.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
If I had a dollar for every time.
Somebody asked me what are yourfees for this?
And I'm like, well, I don'teven know what you need.
What are your fees for that?
I don't know what you need andI can't just give you a blanket
answer.
What's the best structure toset up?
I don't know.
Generally, it's this, but whatif you have something that we
don't know about?
What if you already ownproperty?
(15:58):
What if you?
Whatever the case is?
So everything we do goesthrough all of our steps and
it's custom, customized for eachclient, and that's really
important, because you don'twant to do what your friend joe
did, or mario, because whatmario did is right for mario and
mario situation.
Maybe mario is planning to moveand maybe you're not.
There's so many variables, sodon't guess at it.
(16:20):
There's too much at stake.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, absolutely Lauren.
It's always a pleasure to talkwith you and to get your
insights on things, because youcan save although lawyers cost a
lot of money but you can alsosave a lot of money to people.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yes, ultimately, it's about saving money by doing
things right the first time andnot struggling through it.
So thank you, mario, for havingme again, and I look forward to
seeing you soon and good luckwith your launch.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Thank you and we'll talk very soon.
Take care Bye for now.
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Welcome to the 5 Questions Podcast, where we
unlock real estate and businessinsights one question at a time.
Welcome to the 5 QuestionsPodcast.
I am your host, Mario Lamar,and today we have a returning
(00:24):
guest on the show.
I wanted to bring her backbecause there's been a lot of
changes in the months that justoccurred in international
business and investing, so letme reintroduce you to our guest.
She is an experiencedprofessional in international
(00:47):
law and cross-border investing.
Nonetheless, none other, Ishould say, than Lauren Corwin.
Lauren, welcome back to theshow.
I wanted to bring you backbecause lots have changed since
we last spoke and a lot ofpeople have questions.
They have a lot of questions,but we're not going to break the
(01:10):
format of the podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's five questions no only five.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So let me start with the first one, Since we last
spoke.
What major changes or trendshave you noticed in immigration
and in investment policies thatreal estate investors need to be
aware?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, there's so many changes we're certainly not
going to get to all of them, butobviously the most significant
one is the change in thepresidency here in the US and
the re-election, I guess, of theliberals in Canada, which has
put some pressure on people thatwant to leave, that are
frustrated with the Canadianside.
(01:49):
And then there's also been alot of people here in the US
that wanted to move north.
So, as a result, I opened across-full-scale cross-border
law firm to help people go bothways.
But investing in the US isstill and always going to be
that much more appealing andprofitable than in Canada,
(02:13):
because you just can't match themarket, no matter what happens
politically.
You have a very strong, stablemarket in the US the largest in
the world, 10 times the size ofthe Canadian market and most of
(02:36):
the states that we helpinvestors invest in are very
landlord friendly, which is notthe case in most Canadian
provinces.
So it's a very differentlandscape, certainly from an
immigration perspective, thechanges are daily, really daily.
I wake up every day like, okay,what's today going to bring?
What's in store for me today,for us as immigration lawyers?
And the key is that you can'tlet fear stop you from taking
(03:01):
advantage of opportunities andthere are opportunities and
they're going to continue to beopportunities and it really is
time to be poised and ready totake advantage of those
opportunities and have yourentity set up, have your
structure set up.
Even if you don't want a visa,get it set up properly.
So if you do decide at somepoint you want one, grab it.
(03:24):
But I would recommend anybodythat's even remotely thinking
about potentially doing a lot ofcross-border business.
Get that visa in your pocket,because it's an insurance policy
and things are changing rapidlyand we don't know when they're
going to impact most of thenon-immigrant visas.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You certainly have good points here and we're going
to jump into the secondquestion right away, because
what you just said ties intowhat I wanted to talk next.
And many investors focus, youknow, in the US or Canada market
, but you've worked globally andI want to ask you what are some
(04:03):
maybe overlooked cross-borderopportunities that investors
might be missing out on?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Well, absolutely, as you know, because I've
introduced you to some of mycolleagues, for example, that
specialize in investing inMexico, in Honduras, in Costa
Rica.
Just a week and a half ago Iinterviewed a lovely girl lady,
woman I guess who moved to CostaRica at the end of COVID and
(04:30):
now they have a developmentcompany in Costa Rica.
They were doing buildingdevelopment in Toronto and now
they're doing that in Costa Ricaand a lot of Central America.
I'm doing a podcast next week,I think, with a colleague from
Portugal because a lot of peopleCanadians and Americans are
interested in Portugal, not justto visit and not just to invest
(04:51):
, but even to move the Dominican.
I'm speaking with the head ofthe Dominican real estate
department on Thursday aboutbringing open, opening
opportunities because, at theend of the day, I think what my
ability has always been,especially, you know, during all
the changes in the day, I thinkwhat, what my ability has
always been, especially, youknow, during all the changes in
COVID my ex-husband beingdeported is the ability to
(05:11):
respond to what people need andmeet them where they are, and
right now they want optionsbesides North America, so we
have to give them to them.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, and and you know you're right in networking
and connecting with differentpeople, not for not just even
from Canada and the U?
S, but there's a lot ofopportunities Now a lot of
investors focused in, forexample, the Caribbean, but
Europe is starting to have to bevery attractive to some
(05:42):
investors like you.
Portugal is one of the markets,so we should open our vision to
maybe more opportunities thatare not really close to us.
But you're certainly right andyou're a good point of entry
because you're a cross-borderlawyer.
You have many, many connectionsthat people, if they have
(06:07):
questions, they can reach outand ask you and maybe you can
connect them.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yes, absolutely.
I'll tell you a very quick,funny, very quick story.
Yeah, during, I think it wasprobably.
Well, it was back in 2021,which is kind of at the.
You know, in COVID I had agentleman and his daughter reach
out to me.
They were realtors from Ottawaand the daughter was desperate
to get out like a grown daughterand we didn't end up working
(06:35):
together and they were justreferred to me two days ago by
one of our mutual colleaguesthat knows about what I'm doing
and they're good friends withone of my clients, so now
they're ready to do something.
I mean, these are long-termrelationships that I build, like
Mario said, and it's not justNorth America, it's, you're
(06:57):
right.
I even help people like investin Israel.
Now people be like why would Iinvest in Israel?
There's a war?
Well, israeli real estateactually the increases year over
year in Israeli real estate issecond to none.
So, even though it's a strong,strong economy and you'll have
(07:18):
to invest where the opportunityis and that's the important
thing.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And that's why you need to talk to people who knows
, because you don't want to makea mistake and invest in areas
where you shouldn't be investing.
Correct Leads us to our thirdquestion and obviously we spoke
about your journey before, onthe last episode, but I want to
come back to this and yourjourney from experience you know
personal immigration challengesto becoming an international
(07:46):
law expert is inspiring.
Can you share how your personalexperience motivated you to
help others with theirimmigration and investment
pursuits?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Sure.
So back in.
I don't even know if it was2006 or 2007,.
I got married to a gentlemanfrom Montreal.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And we, those guys, always get you.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I wasn't going to say anything, but anyway he was not
a French Canadian, but I methim here in Florida.
We got married and we went onour honeymoon to Thailand and on
the way back from our honeymoon, he was put in immigration jail
, expeditiously removed,subsequently deported.
And here I was like what in theworld is going on?
(08:31):
And it was a crazy, crazy thing.
And I was in the process ofgetting my green card at the
time and he did not get a greencard.
He was denied and at the end ofthe day we ended up getting
divorced and probably it was amarriage that never should have
happened, but had it nothappened, I would not do what I
do today.
I wrote my book called Findingyour Silver Lining in the
(08:51):
business immigration processbased on that, because through
all of this adversity is alwayssome type of prosperity and you
just have to find it.
And I found my why to helpothers avoid having a similar
fate to what happened to me.
And that's really what I do andwhy I do it, besides the fact
that I want to create a betterlife for people that are trying
(09:12):
to get away from anti-Semitism,from challenges, chasing their
American dream.
And instead of chasing it,let's find it, let's get it,
let's get it under wraps and getyou into a place where you feel
confident, safe and secure andalso successful.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And I'm going to repeat myself.
I say it all the time, but forour listeners, any dream that we
have, no matter what it is,it's possible.
You just have to connectyourself with the right people
who will help you achievewhatever your dream is.
It doesn't matter, and so youknow if it has to go with cross
(09:51):
border or law, well, lauren isone person you want to connect
with because she can help youachieve many, many different.
You know goals or dreams thatyou have, and this is the lesson
here.
So you know Lauren.
Lauren, you you've had yourchallenges, but now you
understand and you can helpothers.
(10:12):
So it's it's really trulyamazing.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But isn't that how most people come to be who they
are, because they've been facedwith adversity.
It's not like we just sailthrough life and we're like oh,
everything is rosy.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Well, here's the difference.
A lot of people they try to doit on their own and that's where
you know they hit the wall andthey think they, and they start
believing that their dreams isnot possible.
It's not that's not the truth.
It's.
The truth is is they're justnot looking with the right help.
You know you need to connectwith people.
(10:46):
That's how you become successfulin life and in in.
You know, putting your dreamsforward.
You're just not doing it onyour own.
That's.
That's the thing.
Right brings us to our fourthquestion.
You have programs.
We briefly touched on them lasttime, but I want to repeat
myself because I think these areimportant points where people
(11:09):
should know how to emigratethrough.
Real estate is one, and theseven-figure invest to immigrate
program.
Obviously they became morepopular.
We've been talking about them.
You've been helping people.
Can you explain again how theseprogram works and the benefits
they have to your clients?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So one of the big misnomers out there is that
people compare me and my companyto an immigration lawyer.
And an immigration lawyer getsyou papers, gets you a visa,
gets the job done.
You know, usually they're goodat what they do, but it's a
finite scope of work, of work isnot finite.
(11:57):
I am your partner throughoutthe process.
I take clients through thewhole journey of what in the
world do you want to do?
Where do you want to invest?
How do you want to invest?
And the key is that mostlawyers will not help a real
estate investor access a visabecause it's very complicated.
But I created a streamlinedprogram, so my programs are
streamlined.
But I created a streamlinedprogram, so my programs are
(12:30):
streamlined.
Concierge holistic it's anecosystem of service providers
that are all under my kind ofguise, under my roof, like a
general contractor that'smanaging the process of fixing
your house so you can flip it.
Clients, because I'm takingthem through that whole journey,
they're never left withquestions.
You know, if they need anestate, a state's attorney, I'm
going to get that for them.
If they need somebody to helpthem build a trust, I'm going to
get that for them.
If they need somebody to do taxplanning.
I'm going to help them withthat.
So what?
What I do is oversee that wholeprocess to make sure that they
(12:54):
are looked after and their needsare met throughout the process,
and that is something that issuper unique and avoids
piecemealing and struggling andmaking mistakes, because one
mistake could cost you lots ofmoney, lots of time and your
visa.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And sometimes it's not even mistakes, it's doing
things out of order.
Correct, you try to go get alawyer, try to go get this
person, this person, but you'redoing it in the wrong order
could cost you thousands ofdollars.
So the benefit from workingwith a person like you is you
know the order of where itshould be done and that's where
(13:31):
it brings success.
Okay, so already our last andfifth questions for today.
Lauren, it goes fast, but we gostraight to the point Now.
We talked about how complicatedit is for someone to looking to
(13:55):
start with their cross-borderinvestments and starting their
journey into the real estateworld cross-border.
What would it be?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
The most important piece of advice I can give
anybody is don't try to do itwithout the right help and don't
try to do it with just help onone side of the border, because
getting help on the USS side isnot going to help you in Canada.
Getting guidance on the Canadianside about what to do in the US
is not going to help you.
Getting guidance from somebodyin the US about what to do in
(14:25):
Portugal is not going to helpyou.
You need guidance from expertson both sides of whatever the
border is or whatever the sea isor the ocean or whatever, and
working with somebody that canoversee and manage that process
for you rather than you tryingto jump through heaps to figure
it out.
The most important thing thatyou can do for yourself is not
try to do it yourself and reallygo to people.
(14:49):
Don't say, oh well, mario'sfriend Joe did it this way, or
this person in this group did itthat way.
You can't do that.
You have to manage the processand make sure that you get
things done the right way, withthe right guidance and the right
structure and the right people.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
And people need to really understand that each
situation is different.
Even the slightest differencecould cause big impact.
Know big impact or big, bigchanges in the outcome of the
way you do things.
So you know, like you said,it's not because your friend did
it a certain way that you cando it the same way.
(15:27):
You need someone to look atyour situation and tell you
listen, given thosecircumstances, this is the way
we have to proceed.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
If I had a dollar for every time.
Somebody asked me what are yourfees for this?
And I'm like, well, I don'teven know what you need.
What are your fees for that?
I don't know what you need andI can't just give you a blanket
answer.
What's the best structure toset up?
I don't know.
Generally, it's this, but whatif you have something that we
don't know about?
What if you already ownproperty?
(15:58):
What if you?
Whatever the case is?
So everything we do goesthrough all of our steps and
it's custom, customized for eachclient, and that's really
important, because you don'twant to do what your friend joe
did, or mario, because whatmario did is right for mario and
mario situation.
Maybe mario is planning to moveand maybe you're not.
There's so many variables, sodon't guess at it.
(16:20):
There's too much at stake.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, absolutely Lauren.
It's always a pleasure to talkwith you and to get your
insights on things, because youcan save although lawyers cost a
lot of money but you can alsosave a lot of money to people.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yes, ultimately, it's about saving money by doing
things right the first time andnot struggling through it.
So thank you, mario, for havingme again, and I look forward to
seeing you soon and good luckwith your launch.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Thank you and we'll talk very soon.
Take care Bye for now.
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