Real Estate Investing in Canada: Creating Wealth with the ACRE System, 2nd Edition

Foreword xiii

Introduction xv

Chapter 1: Your Real Estate Success Road Map 1

Chapter 2: Flight from Nowhere 9

Chapter 3: Your Own Personal Belize 19

Chapter 4: The Four Most Important Words in Real Estate Investing: “What’s Behind the Curtain?” 33

Chapter 5: How to Tell If a Town Will Boom or Bust: The 12 Keys That Unlock the Vault 41

Chapter 6: Property Goldmine Score Card 65

Chapter 7: Skipping Stones to Success 71

Chapter 8: Not Any Port in a Storm: How to Find the Best Properties in the Best Areas 79

Chapter 9: The Property Analyzer Form: Where the Rubber Hits the Road 95

Chapter 10: Below Average or Super Successful: You Choose! 115

Chapter 11: Placing Your Offer and Getting It Accepted 127

Chapter 12: Getting Your Banker to Yes! 143

Chapter 13: Seven Winning Strategies for Getting the Financing 159

Chapter 14: From Corporate Job to Successful Real Estate Investor 197

Chapter 15: Negotiating Secrets of the Overachieving Investor 213

Chapter 16: Th e Big Close—A Day of Reckoning 231

Chapter 17: What Becomes of Richard and Emma? —Canadian Success Stories 235

Chapter 18: Your Personal Action Plan 245

Appendix 1: Checklists

Due Diligence Checklists 251

Property Analyzer Form 257

Appendix 2: Canadian Real Estate Glossary 259

Real Estate Investment Network 279

Acknowledgements 281

Index 283