My favorite Taiwanese malaprops, with thanks to my real estate-minded parents:

“In this market, we should be looking at buying condoms.”

“Wow, you are really becoming a real estate typhoon.”

Courtesy of our real estate coach Cassandra White, we’ve now purchased a four-plex in Innisfail, a small town outside of Calgary. This is the first ‘commercial’ property we’ve invested in, and Alberta real estate being what it is right now, the projections show a doubling of our investment in 5 years.

Time will tell, but still, not too bad for beginners.

Are you interested in real estate investing?

Did you know you don’t have to learn all about it to build a portfolio? Mike and I did take courses last year, and we loved it. But working with Cassandra we realize we didn’t have to.

If you knew it could be simple and easy, and there was someone who would help you invest your money as if it was her own, would you try it?

As your business hits its stride and begins throwing off cash, what will you do with it (the cash)?

If you don’t invest for the long term in something, real estate or no, how will your business ever earn enough? What if one day you want to stop?

Click here to read a little about evaluating real estate - don’t worry that it’s written by Cassandra who is Canadian - it’s universal stuff.