(img: kyle ruth) It’s never a good time to buy rental property. Not a day goes by without something proclaiming this to us. Prices are too high. Demand from tenants is too low. The market is saturated. In 2008 the world was coming to an end. In 2013 the bubble is too big. There’s…
The last time we commented on the state of economic affairs in the world on this blog we got some interesting (aka … nasty) emails claiming that we were spreading unnecessary fear. Things are unnecessary only until they aren’t. With that, let’s proceed shall we? Yesterday the Financial Post reported: Bank of Canada Drops Rate…
At the beginning of October Rock Star Real Estate will be 5 years old. Somehow we’ve managed to make it this far. The team has grown, our impact has grown and it sometimes feels like a minor miracle we’ve made it this far. We’ve gone from two guys stuffing real estate marketing packages in my…
Let’s have some fun… It’s 100% official. The world has gone mad. And the captain is drunk. In case you missed it, yesterday the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, shocked the financial world by agreeing to continue pulling $85 Billion a month out of thin air to buy funky smelling assets. All in an…
The more we share about both of our childhood’s, the more I think we didn’t have anything close to a normal upbringing. Case in point… Special Reader’s Warning: This one is a little more gory than usual, so if that’s not your cup of tea please don’t proceed. Both of us would go to our…
About fifteen years ago I began reading every book I could find about personal finance. I literally went to WH Smith bookstores for hours, reading everything I could find right in the store. And then buying the few books that looked the most promising. I remember driving from Mississauga to downtown Toronto to track down…
The other day someone we know got offered a 5-year fixed mortgage for 2.79%. In the 1980’s our parent’s had a mortgage on their Mississauga, ON home for 16.5%. How times have changed. I bought my first “family home” for $279K. It was 4-bedrooms with a two car garage. This was about ten years ago.…
