Do You Have A Power Team?

June 14th, 2010 by Steve No comments »

By now you have probably figured out that when we’re talking about real estate we’re talking about real estate properties and not necessarily a property that you would buy just to live in. We understand that buying a house is an investment for most owners by default because of the nature of the game.

However if you’re buying real estate with the intend of making money. It is important to keep everything together and to keep everything together nicely to attain some of that leverage that we’re talking about here. As an real estate investor you want to spend some time look for the best possible people to help you become successful in buying properties at a discount.

Here’s an example of how money can be made in real estate:

Let’s say that you’re like some people and that you don’t have a lot of money to start with and manage to find a property that you can see yourself living in and you buy it for 150 000$. If the property is really worth 180 000$ you just made some money that you can use to further your real estate related activities. It would be sweet to start investing in real estate in this manner one step ahead of the game. Being able to produce these kind of results is a manner of having access to information about deals before they became deals available for the public to enjoy.

If you’re looking at the property on mls.ca it may already be too late. It can be used to do research about what’s selling in the area that you’re interested in. mls.ca is great but most deals aren’t found there.

In our opinion here are the people and skills that you should have in your power team:

  • Realtor (formerly known as the Real Estate Agent)
  • Mortgage Broker
  • Inspector
  • Lawyer
  • Accountant
  • Handyman or property management company
  • Potential Joint Venture Partners

You want to choose these people carefully and ask for references. You also want to make sure that these people have worked with real estate investors before because this is what you are and you will have particular needs that other buyers may not have.

We’ll look at these needs shortly. For the time being go out there and start building your power team. Real Estate is a quick industry. Timing is more important than location.

We’re going to leave you with a few things to think about: If we had a 2 bedroom condo for sale for 127 000$ (worth 135 000$) in a good part of town, would you know what to do to act on it and make a quick 8000$? Are you ready for deals to come your way? Are you ready to act on them? If you’re not. Get ready, start building your power team because this deal is actually available as we speak and you won’t be able to act on it without your power team :-(

Real Estate Is The Way To Go

June 7th, 2010 by Steve No comments »

The other day I was at the bank trying to figure out what to do with some money that we wanted to invest. Talking to the lady at the bank it became obvious that 8% interest rate was something deemed reasonable. It was also reasonable to expect to take quite some risk to achieve this.

After the experience I went home scratched my head for a while and decided that I wouldn’t go the RRSP route anymore. Mutual Funds, Bonds and GICs officially made it out of my list of options when it comes to investing.

Talking to the advisors, we decided to go back to investing in real estate properties and condos, local small businesses and in websites because we don’t build websites, we build businesses that are real estate focused.

Here’s two rules of investing for you. If you have the ability to make more money back (interest) than what the bank offers you in a safe and durable manner your finances should be yours to manage. It turns out that our real estate brings back a minimun 10% interest garanteed for the investor and we do it with 100% calculated risk.

Second, Investing money can be scary but we know about real estate and we speciallize in residential multi unit properties and townhouse condos. We have a team of lawyers, real estate agents, private sellers, inspectors, contractors and mortgage brokers to help you get the best possible rates on your upcoming real estate purchase.

You save time and time in real estate like in any other business, time is money! This is what we call leverage: 1Leverage is the only place on the web where we give you the ability to be part of a community interested in sharing information for free with people who are interested in purchasing discounted properties.

We Prefer Real Estate

Understanding that time equals money is essencial in real estate because the more you know the better you are able to reconzine a good opportunity and act on it with or without money. We beleive in real estate because it has proven itself here in Canada and has never failed us (not even during the recession).

We seriously beleive that everyoone could do these things if they had someone like us to coach them at it:

  • We believe that everyone can get ready to buy a house quite repidly (3 month min).
  • We believe everyone should own the property that they live in.
  • We believe that using a coach and accessing deals and a good network can get you far in life.

Having said that we decided to take you along ono our journey. Should you feel inspired, please do not hesitate to take action on your side or to join our investors’ list. We see you as a owner and will do what we can to inspire you and to give you the tools necessary to own properties as soon as possible.

Real Estate is the way to go! Don’t get left behinnd.

Are you currently investing in real estate? If not, why not?

Your Debts Could Make You Rich

May 30th, 2010 by Steve No comments »

In this post I want to talk to you about a program that has been very effective for me. In fact, I will go ahead and share two of these priceless life changing tools with you.

This is for anyone who has debt and want to get out of debt and start building wealth. The Debt To Wealth Program makes is faster for you to get out of debt. It really helped me. Using it I saved thousands of money in interest.

Read about The Debt To Wealth Program and see for yourself. This guy really know what he is talking about.

Make Money With Your Computer is the second tool that I used. It’s something that I found online for cheap and I thought I would try it out and see if I could learn a thing or two. Out of the 50 Ways To Make Money With Your Computer everyone can find at least one that can make an impact in their lives. I know that because I’ve never met someone who read this ebook without having something positive to say about it.

Let’s make a deal: If you get The Debt To Wealth Program and 50 Ways To Make Money With Your Computer

and you don’t like any of them you can blame me for it. Drop me an email and I’ll explain to you how they both changed my life and my friends and family’s lives.

Alright now, until the next time.

To Your Financial Success!

No need to walk it alone

May 25th, 2010 by Steve No comments »

As you probably noticed we will be talking about finances for the next little while.  This is the thing, we’re not talking about finances, we’re talking about life but we’re using finances as an excuse.

Here’s a life scenario that you can think about for a minute. Let’s say that you have a kid and that your kid got interested in playing piano as a hobby. The kid has potential and you want to support him in what he is doing so what do you do?

You know a little bit of piano so you teach him what you know until he gets struck and you have nothing else to teach him. This is when you have to look at the kid in the eye to figure out if he is worth you investing more time and money in him.

Here’s some examples of what you may consider. When you were teaching him, did he do his homework? Did he ask any questions? Did he practice any of the things that he learned?

If he did, go ahead and sign him up for piano lessons so that the kid can learn some cool things. This is probably a good investment because you’re not a professional piano teacher, you just have fun with it once in a while.

The teacher on the other hand will teach your kids things that you never knew existed and will have your child learn concepts way after than you would.

This is what the teacher does in the scenario, that’s what a coach does with his team and this is what you need with your finances as well.

You need someone that you pay so that they can give you the best possible tips so that you learn all the cool things there is to know about finances and money. The faster you learn about interest rates, investments, RRSP, TFSA and more the quicker you can invest in them.

However you may need a coach to help you understand it all so that you can use these things to your advantage. If you’re never tried a coach go and contact us and we can hook you up with someone that can help you:

  • pay your debts
  • save money
  • invest money

When it comes to life the only thing you can waste is time. When it comes to your money, the only thing you can waste is also time.  So don’t wait around, pick up a coach today and get ahead with your finances. You Don’t Need To Do It Alone!

A part of what you earn is yours to keep

May 22nd, 2010 by Steve No comments »

Today we will talk about something serious so I recommand that you listen carefully.

In a sense this is going to be like a homework. Starting today you will save 10% of your salary and you will never take from it. This pile that you’re building is going to be your golden egg.

Here’s how it all works out. Starting today you will do everything in your power to be able to save 10% of your salary and never ever ever take from it.

The best way to do this is to take the money and transfer it out of the account that you use for the rest of your affairs.

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This may require you to open a different bank account, work a little more, spend a little less but you can do it and you must do it.

It doesn’t make sense for you to wake up everyday, dress up, go to work, come back home every day of the year and have nothing to show for. It simply doesn’t make sense.

You pay your taxes, your phone, your credit cards, your hydro and all the bills. Once you’re done you try to enjoy life on what’s left… wrong approch.

Here’s what we suggest: earn money, pay yourself 10%, use the rest to pay your bills and live a little. Later on we’re talk about donatating money and living a little more but for now let’s keep it simple.

To know what you should save just divide your income by 10. So, if you make 1 000$ a month you must keep 100$ and learn to live with 900$. By the end of the year you will have 1 200$ saved up in your golden egg. If you do it for 5 years it will bring you up to 6000$. If your partner also makes 1 000$ and saves 1 200$ a year it gives you 2 400$ a year and 12 000$ for 5 years.

The more you make the more you can save. Expenses are the only thing that can get in the way of your savings so keep them in control so that you can keep a part of what you earn for your savings.

If you can save more go ahead but you can’t spend less. Stop putting the credit card compagnies first and start paying yourself first.

Have you ever tried to pay yourself first? Are you saving any money right now? Talk to us about your experience with saving… We’d like to hear from you.

Money Matters

May 20th, 2010 by Steve No comments »

First post, quick post but let’s try to make it worth your time…

Sometimes people say that “money doesn’t matter“! I don’t know what you think about that but here at 1leverage we think that this false statement is quite misleading.

We agree, money is not everything but it does matter. We think that having money gives you options and that having options is essential in life. Life happens and so much can’t be planned for so we may as well plan what we can because it does matter.

The amount of money that you have decides things such as:

  • the food you can afford
  • the car you drive
  • the school your kids are going to attend
  • the house you live in
  • your hobbies
  • the clothes you buy
  • your ability to give
  • your retirement



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Money has an impact on so many things. How can someone think, say and really believe that “money doesn’t matter”?

If money matters to you and that you would like to have money of it, just say it, it’s ok.

Leave a comment and let us know what you would do if you had more money to spend?