Real Stories In Real Estate podcast

Colin Byrne Buying Your First Home With Your Parents Help 043 RSIRE 

Colin Byrne shares his experience as a first time home buyer, and all the challenges that brings. He had been a renter but desired to own his own home after a roommate was moving out, so looked at condos. As with all experiences, there were positive and negative issues and he shares them to help other first time home b...

George Dube from BDO on Building A Real Estate Portfolio 042 RSIRE 

George Dube, an accountant from BDO that specializes in Real Estate, but has a deep background in tax administration, joins host Nicolee Evans to chat about the importance of how to start investing, and why an accountant in the beginning can be your best friend and helper. Are you going to buy 1 investment property, or ...

Arlen Ekstein Discusses Private Mortgages 041 RSIRE

Arlen Ekstein, Senior Associate at Tembo Financial, joins host Nicolee Evans to discuss mortgage funds known as private mortgages. Unlike an A lender like a bank, or a B lender like other institutions, a private mortgage is usually put together with investors pooling their funds, to lend out to purchasers. Unlike the banks, the rules and restrictions can sometimes be easier to o...

Jason Lane Offers Buying & Selling Tips For a Smooth Closing #040 RSIRE 

Jason Lane joined Woitzik Polsinelli LLP, Lawyers and Mediators in 2018 as a summer law student. Jason obtained his Juris Doctor from The University of Western Ontario in 2019 and is now an associate in our Family and Real Estate Groups.

During his time at WP, Jason has gained extensive knowledge regarding a vari...

#039 RSIRE Lyndsey McNally Talks About Condo Ownership & What to Know Before Purchasing

With a wealth of experience spanning back to 2002, Lyndsey McNally from Condominium Lending Group boasts an extensive background in the condominium sector, where she has dedicated her efforts to supporting the success of the communities that she works with.

Lyndsey is the ...

#038 RSIRE Tahani Aburaneh Shares Her Journey Empowering Women To Grow Wealth Through Real Estate Investing

Tahani Aburaneh is one of Canada’s top real estate investing experts, an Amazon bestselling author, wealth coach, but above all, a proud single mother of 2 grown children. She has spoken to thousands of people as a keynote speaker on stages across North America and is a featured guest on numerous podcasts, TV shows and 2 in...

#037 RSIRE Steven Pargetter Discusses How He Helped His Parents As Retirees Through The Stress Test

Steven is a GTA-based realtor who has been helping clients purchase and sell real estate for over 10 years. He LOVES living in downtown Toronto. As his bio says, “I have been living in downtown Toronto with my wife and son selling real estate for a decade now. I love to help people find the perfect property for their needs and see ...

#036 RSIRE Arsalan Siddiqui Shares His Experience Building A Large Addition On His Home

Arsalan is a Toronto-based realtor who decided to move his parents in with he and his family in 2019. They first started investigating buying a larger home, but what he thought they required was $2.5 million and above. 

To be practical, he decided to see if he could build a 550 Sqf addition onto hi...

#035 RSIRE Pasqualina De Rose Shares Tips About Estate Law & Real Estate From A Lawyer’s Perspective

Lina De Rose is a Durham-based lawyer with extensive experience in both estate law and real estate law. In this episode, Denise and Lina chat about estate law and what happens with passing on without a will or with a will. 

How are real estate sales, purchases and transference handled ...

#034 RSIRE Sai Lee Shares How He Has Made Money Flipping Properties with $0 Out Of Pocket

Sai Lee is a top real estate Mentor.  After many years in the corporate world as an IT consultant.  Sai Lee made the stunning decision to pursue a full time career in the world of real estate investing.  

He learned how to build wealth without using any of his own money, and that was a game changer.

Working with a mentor, he had finally ...

#033 RSIRE Brady Bodley On Dealing With The Landlord Tenant Board In Ontario

Brady Bodley is a Durham-based lawyer with Thomas Efraim LLP. He has much experience with the landlord tenant board, for many reasons. He’s here with guest host Nicolee Evans to discuss many of the challenges he’s seen, how COVID made hearings more challenging, and some of the good things that the LTB does here in Ontario.

Join host award winning mortg...

#032 RSIRE Kevin Harding Buying A Cottage For A Short Term Rental Business

Kevin Harding is a Durham-based real estate agent, and has owned traditional rental properties that come with tenants and toilets. His wife and he were looking for something different, so decided to buy a 4 season cottage to use a few times a year, then rent out the rest of the time. While this can yield amazing financial returns, it also comes with many u...

#031 RSIRE Denise & Gabriel Share Their Experience Building A Legal Basement Apt In Their Home

Denise and her husband Gabriel found their dream home, it was the 3rd house they would buy, but it checked all the boxes. Both had a long drive to the office, and could not get to their daycare in time, so looked for something closer. They looked at Markham and other areas, but decided on Brooklin, closer to Gabe’s work so that he could...

#030 RSIRE Denise & Gabriel Share Their Experience Buying A Home Before Selling

Denise and her husband Gabriel found their dream home, it was the 3rd house they would buy, but it checked all the boxes. Both had a long drive to the office, and could not get to their daycare in time, so looked for something closer. They looked at Markham and other areas, but decided on Whitby, closer to Gabe’s work so that he could pick up the kids...

#029 RSIRE Milli Fox Shares Her Experience Getting To Her Dream Home

Milli Fox and her husband Junior decided to purchase a pre-build 3 bedroom condo, based on plans and thought it would be perfect for their life. Milli had resisted the suburban life, and envisioned a perfect life downtown. By the time the condo was ready and they were conducting their PDI, pre delivery inspection, they had a 2.5 year old and it was one week from...

#028 RSIRE Nicolee Evans - Her Experience With Bridge Financing

Nicolee and her husband were living in their first starter home, before she was a mortgage agent, and it was beginning to feel cramped. She decided they needed something bigger, but her husband wasn’t quite on board, so began a purposeful search.

Her friend suggested another friend had a house for sale, although it wasn’t listed yet. It was PERFECT! The family want...

#027 RSIRE Mohamed Bachani - Buying With a “B” Lender & Moving To an “A” Lender

Mohamed Bachani is a Durham Region-based accountant, founder and president of Unique Accounting Services, an Accounting and Bookkeeping firm that helps Canadian small and medium sized businesses with all their bookkeeping, taxation and accounting.

He wanted to move from renting to owning, was pre-approved and had his down payment, but when he came d...

#026 RSIRE Johnathan Pollock Shares The Ups & Downs Of Being A Landlord

Johnathan Pollock has been a landlord for the last 6 years, and chats with Denise about the challenges and benefits of being a landlord. 

While real estate is an amazing tool to grow your wealth, it is NOT a passive investment, requiring you to stay on top of your money and know what’s going on with your tenants....

#025 RSIRE Brady Bodley Shares Info On The New Anti-Flipping Tax Law

Brady Bodley, lawyer with Birch Law, joins Denise in discussion of the new Federal Anti Flipping law, coming into effect in January 2023. What does the bill aim to accomplish?

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has already been investigating and enforcing residential real estate that was being flipped or assigned and not properly reported as business income.  Essenti...