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Newsletter – November 2012
Check out our latest newsletter for the month of November, which includes:
Feature Property: Learmonth Road, Fitzroy Harbour
Feature Property: Carp Commercial Development Land
4021 Carling Avenue
Our Commercial Lease Listings
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Newsletter – October 2012
Check out our latest newsletter for the month of October, which includes:
Feature Property: 247 Mufferaw Lane
Feature Property: Carp Commercial Development Land
Our Commercial & Land Listings
Our Residential Listings
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Newsletter – August 2012
Check out our latest newsletter for the month of August, which includes:
IOE3300: Advanced Real Estate Course
Recently Sold: 85 Dufferin Street
Feature Property: Hawthorne & Rideau Road
Our Lease Listings
Our Commercial Listings
Our Residential Listings
Click HERE for the August Newsletter!
Newsletter – July 2012
Check out our latest newsletter for the month of July, which features many of our hottest listings, including:
Recently Sold: 6968 McKeown Drive
4021 Carling Ave
Our commercial Listings
Our Residential Listings
Real Estate Investment Opportunities
Click HERE for the July Newsletter!
Carp Road Business Improvement Area
We have in Ottawa a BIA (Business Improvement Area) focused on improving the Carp Road corridor. It’s an important stretch of road connecting the fast growing suburb of Stittsville and the historic Village of Carp.
It is a mostly rural area but there are municipal services at both ends but not along much of the 15.1 kilometre road connecting these two anchors. What this means is that the City of Ottawa has thousands of acres of industrially zoned land that do not have access to piped serves (water and sewer). This is a shame… Keep Reading
IRR- Determining the ‘Internal Rate of Return’
Probably the truest measure of a project’s rate of return is its Internal Rate of Return. The IRR is that interest rate that exactly balances the discounted value of future net cashflows with the investment required to develop the project or enterprise. The higher the interest rate (discount rate) needs to be in order that future net cashflows exactly offset the upfront investment, the higher the IRR is and the better the project is, at least in terms of return on investment.
The IRR can be found by solving the following equation by trial and error (computers do it using an iterative process)… Keep Reading
Real Estate Investing Made Simple
I met with a couple in their early 40s last week and they asked me to lay out a program for them so that in addition to building their portfolio of financial assets, they could create a real estate portfolio as well. They agreed that the latter would not include a ‘flip this house/as-seen-on-TV’ approach–they would take a longer view.
Simple real estate investing is based on four elements, I told them:
1. Buy a home (townhome or condo) as your principal residence and pay off your mortgage.
2. Buy some residential rental property with 5% down.
3. Buy some commercial rental property with 25% down.
4. Buy some land with 50% down… Keep Reading
Grasshoppers, Squirrels, and Ants
These are the groups that populate the world of Grassel:
1. Grasshoppers are low wage earners who have to spend every cent they make just to survive. However, each Grasshopper starts life owning one square in Grassel with an asset value of $13,200. (All figures are in GD, Grassel Dollars.)
2. Squirrels are mid-income types and even though they have a lot more income than Grasshoppers, they somehow seem to spend all the Grassel Dollars they earn on current consumption. The amount they have left over each year for savings and investment? Zero. But they live on nicer squares in Grassel with an asset value of $19,800 each… Keep Reading