Thanksgiving is my favourite time of year! It's a beautiful reminder to consider all the things we have to be grateful for... Near the top of my list are family, friends, tenants, suppliers, partners, and even the strangers we've had opportunity to meet over the past...
Billionaire investor and champion of capitalism, Ray Dalio, has been sounding an alarm, for some time now, about a coming cataclysmic shift in our monetary system. We’re living in an era of near zero interest rates, wealth and political gaps, and rising powers...
If we’re going to invest in real estate, wouldn't it be great if we could predict the future? Well we can, sort of. Our economy is made up of remarkably predictable patterns that regularly repeat themselves over time. These patterns, called cycles, can give us clues...
renew? I've coordinated renewal of several mortgages over the past few months (you may recall we sometimes try to time renewals for US election years because of typically coinciding rate dips), and here's what I've learned: Existing variable rates are crazy-low (as...
defer? Since March, Canadian lenders have offered borrowers an opportunity to defer mortgage payments (they're okay with this because interest continues to accrue, and they're in the business of earning interest). As one of our goals is the rapid repayment of...