From a two-room schoolhouse in tiny Waterton Park to owning resorts in Curaçao, Deanna Boyden’s path rewrites what’s possible. In this wide-open convo with host Alfonso Cuadra, Deanna shares how early hard work shaped her mindset, the creative financing that got her first big house (and why Alberta’s “assumable without qualifying” era mattered), how the 2008 U.S. crisis opened the door to buying for “quarters on the dollar,” and the realities of international investing—banking, titles, language, management, and liquidity you don’t hear about on TV.
We also dig into diversification (U.S. rehabs in Nevada, Canadian land development in the Maritimes), and Deanna’s mantra for taking bold action: “Say yes, then figure it out.”
Listen for:
- Turning mobile homes and townhomes into momentum
- How a seller-financed down payment over 5 years changed everything
- Why Curaçao (outside the hurricane belt) beat out other Caribbean options
- The legal & cultural curveballs of buying abroad (no MLS, old title systems)
- Building teams, replacing managers, and keeping deals liquid
- A call to women and “front-row seekers” to take the next step
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