Rick Harris is an investment real estate author, coach, and consultant who helps investment real estate investors to boost their real estate purchasing and renting ability.

Mentioned in this episode:

Book - 31 Days to Purchasing and Renting Your First Investment Rea Estate Property

This book's core is Rick's commitment to boosting your financial foundation, unlocking sustainable wealth, and creating a living legacy that will benefit you and your loved ones for generations to come. What you can accomplish in thirty-one days will challenge and amaze you - and the return will pay dividends for life.

Rick is a real estate investor, coach & author. He has been investing since 2008 and has not looked back since. Rick loves to Buy & Hold and shares tips to be successful with this strategy. Ricks book: 31 Days to Purchasing and Renting Your First Investment Real Estate Property has helped investors across the country grow their portfolios. He currently invests in Red Deer, Edmonton and Canmore, Alberta.

Mentioned in this episode:

Book - 31 Days to Purchasing and Renting Your First Investment Rea Estate Property

This book's core is Rick's commitment to boosting your financial foundation, unlocking sustainable wealth, and creating a living legacy that will benefit you and your loved ones for generations to come. What you can accomplish in thirty-one days will challenge and amaze you - and the return will pay dividends for life.

Building a real estate investing business entails a good foundation and a process that looks out for important details to keep it growing and running well.

How do you start and set up your real estate investing business for sustainability and success?

Mentioned in this episode:

Book - 31 Days to Purchasing and Renting Your First Investment Rea Estate Property

This book's core is Rick's commitment to boosting your financial foundation, unlocking sustainable wealth, and creating a living legacy that will benefit you and your loved ones for generations to come. What you can accomplish in thirty-one days will challenge and amaze you - and the return will pay dividends for life.

Recently I had the great pleasure of being interviewed as a guest on the podcast show, The Everyday Millionaire, hosted by Patrick Francey.

The Everyday Millionaire podcast is a place to learn precisely what it takes to create the wealth you need to support the dreams you desire for yourself, your family, your community.

Patrick Francey
ENTREPRENEUR – REAL ESTATE INVESTOR – SPEAKER- EDUCATOR – COACH
HOST of the Acclaimed EVERYDAY MILLIONAIRE Podcast

An accomplished speaker, facilitator, and host, over the last two decades, Patrick has taught and presented to thousands of real estate investor entrepreneurs across Canada, both live and online. He is best known for providing his audiences with foundational lessons and context for understanding how to “treat your real estate investing like a business.”

Vast Business Experience

Splitting his time between Vancouver, British Columbia and Edmonton, Alberta, Patrick Francey is an entrepreneur, business owner, and real estate investor. For over three decades, the businesses he has built, developed, and guided are recognized not only for their successes but their resilience through the economic cycles. Since 1984, Pro-Skate, an Edmonton-based retail business, has continued to grow, serving both skaters and players at all levels, including professional and Olympic athletes.

Patrick began investing and growing his real estate portfolio in 2001; today, Patrick’s primary focus is as CEO and Managing Partner of the Real Estate Investment Network (REIN), Canada’s leading source for real estate investor education since 1992. Patrick, his partners, and team support REIN Members and investors by teaching proven investment strategies that assist investors in achieving their financial goals and dreams. To date, REIN Members have transacted almost 40, 000 properties worth over 5 billion dollars.

Your journey to becoming an Everyday Millionaire begins now.

The following podcast information is by the folks behind the production of The Everyday Millionaire podcast.

“What stopped us from buying [real estate] in the first place was pure lack of knowledge and education. Education is why I’ve been a REIN member for over ten years. I feed off the education, and that’s what I love about REIN. It’s incredible the amount of education that comes at us, and it’s being able to focus that information and get yourself going.” –

Rick Harris

Rick is a dynamic, entrepreneurial sales management strategist with over 20 years of demonstrated success and achievement in driving multimillion-dollar sales growth while providing award-winning sales leadership and coaching in highly competitive markets.

An active real estate investor since 2002, Rick has found a niche as an expert in vacation and recreational properties and rounds out his investment portfolio to include single-family homes, condo rentals, and income suite development. His experience and expertise set him apart and strengthens his role as a certified Real Estate Investment Advisor.

Rick is committed to improving his clients’ experience and works with them through their purchasing strategies and processes, finding investment real estate and post-purchase support. He has recently developed a podcast and has been actively blogging on the subject of real estate investment to share his knowledge and experience and give back to his community.

Along with his diverse interests in business and entrepreneurialism, Rick is active and committed to living a long, healthy life not only for himself but also for his family and the legacy he wants to leave for them.

The Handyma’am; Woman Contractor

Part of my goal in building my investment real estate advisor’s business is to launch an investment real estate podcast and blog. I am always in search of people in the investment real estate business who are inspirational, fascinating and can bring “The Investment Real Estate Know How and the How To” information to my listeners and readers.

A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of crossing paths with a Blast from the Past (we had worked together at the same company).

Shelley Collins is a woman contractor who founded a business and created a brand that captures the essence of Shelley’s passion. (http://www.thehandymaam.com)

I asked; Shelley why this love affair with real estate and being a contractor?

Shelley in her early adult life moved five times in eight years. Shelley calls this the Staged part of her life; because of her husband’s career, continually moving. Shelley learned to keep her eye on all details of her homes as she knew they might have to sell at a moment’s notice. Marketing her homes required Shelley to be aware of the interior and exterior details of her houses; one misstep could put her family’s finances at risk. She wanted to ensure each move they were able to see a positive cash gain from the sale of their homes.

Shelley’s life has not been without challenges; now a single mom with two young daughters. Shelley has had to pick up the pieces to her personal and career constructing a new life for herself and her family.

Shelley Collins has transformed her career and followed a path she is hoping more women will follow her into.

“The Handyma’am” is a home improvement business dedicated to two things – taking their clients’ visions and turning them into brilliant realities and forming their contracting team to consist of females exclusively. The Handyma’am is a registered trademark as of Feb 2016.

Asking; Shelley why women only? Her answer was obvious and broke into three parts:

1. When having someone you do not know very well come into your personal space, it can be uncomfortable. If you are a female client or even a senior, it’s been shared that it is a much more comfortable feeling having a skilled female laborer in the home rather than men, as our team is seen as confident, trustworthy, and respectful of peoples need to be comfortable in their living space.

1. Why not? We love to surround ourselves with strong-minded, and bodied and skilled teammates. The idea of training, mentoring apprenticing and empowering other women is truly inspiring. The more work that comes in, the more opportunity for team growth and expansion.

1. Did you know? As it has been predicted that there will be a shortage of skilled laborers shortly, this is an opportunity for women to potentially realize longer-term and likely higher paying income as other career paths dwindle.

In interviewing Shelley for Vault to Investment Real Estate Success podcast, you can hear her passion for contracting runs deep but to have women be a part of the contracting business runs deeper.

Shelley is on a mission to show women they can be part of an industry that is male-dominated. Shelley wants women to know that physical stature should never be a barrier to entering the contracting field or even lack of education in the contracting area.

Shelley has a couple of great mentors in her life; both in the construction business. Being a mentor is what Shelley wants to share now and in the future.

Technology and social media have also opened the door for a career in contracting; giving Shelley access to education, business, and marketing tools to build her skills and business.

Shelley talks about how Instagram...

Tiffany has been a full-time investor since 2005 and speaks and trains Investors on stages across Canada and the US. Having bought over 100 properties for their investment, Corey and Tiffany know what Investors need, even if they don’t know themselves.

http://www.albertaonfire.com

Tiffany enjoys coaching others to get beyond the mental and financial hurdles that keep people out of investing. Helping others learn how to raise Joint Venture cash is one of her biggest passions.

Having set up and managed the in-house team that led their portfolio for the last 12 years, her knowledge of Property Management, as well as the rental market, is second to none. From assessing realistic market rents and tenant demographics to tips and tricks of property management that can only be learned by being in the trenches on a large scale, to the ins and outs of the Residential Tenancy Act of Alberta.

Tiffany is well versed in what it takes to be a good landlord while at the same time setting reasonable limits so that a good work/life balance are found.

She is a monthly contributor and expert for TV, Print and radio across the country for investing and market knowledge. Speaking to thousands of investors a year from stages across Canada, she is excited every time, to help change people’s results.

She helps spearhead the national team of Award Winning Investor On Fire Preferred REALTORS® that help investors find quality properties from Victoria to St John’s…helping keep the emotions out, the numbers foremost and the expectations realistic.

Her interests include running, yoga, snowboarding, dirt-biking, hiking, fishing, gardening and time with family and friends. Though, a good book makes for stiff competition to any of the above.

Tiffany; thanks again for joining us; on Vault to Investment Real Estate Success Podcast.

In my upcoming book; Vault to Investment Real Estate Success I focus on three critical areas of investment real estate; building a strong financial foundation, unlocking sustainable wealth and creating a living legacy.

What is it that makes you so passionate about this?

Regarding investment real estate you talk about a pattern; can you explain when you say you’ve seen a trend, can you describe that pattern? (answer to above question refers to model)

What do you think your family and friends think of you investing in investment real estate?

What’s the difference between cash flow and wealth?

Top Tip for helping an investor stay in long enough for legacy wealth?

How has your investment real estate helped you create a living legacy; right now, while you are still a part of this world?

Good Friend of mine talks about leaving evidence that you were in this world; what does this mean to you?

What will your legacy look like because of investment real estate?

What positive markers would you like to leave behind?

Contact Tiffany through her website: http://www.albertaonfire.com

Mentioned in this episode:

Book - 31 Days to Purchasing and Renting Your First Investment Rea Estate Property

This book's core is Rick's commitment to boosting your financial foundation, unlocking sustainable wealth, and creating a living legacy that will benefit you and your loved ones for generations to come....

The Background Story to the Show

Stay with me until the end of my story, and I will reveal why I coined the title “On the Move with Alex.”

Earning my REIA (Real Estate Investment Advisor) Certification in May 2016 was a remarkable moment in my investment real estate career. My REIA certification would set in motion a directional and focused foundation I had been trying to achieve in helping the average person add investment real estate to their financial foundation.

I know when I first started out in purchasing investment real estate I set a lousy, goosy goal of buying as many doors as I could on my own and with family members which not the smartest target in the world.

Before long I had with family members and joint venture partners investing with me, and together we had purchased 12 real estate investment doors.

I soon realized I was having more fun coaching my joint venture partners than I was buying doors. Plus, I began writing a book on investment real estate.

Most business books are around 240 to 270 pages or just over 80,000 words. I had written over 55,000 words on my journey and had no idea how to bring my book to market. Part of my REIA training gave me insight on how to create a book proposal.

Here I was, a would-be author, and I had no idea what a book proposal was and why the heck I would need one. I went from floundering with my business mantra, vision, mission and value statements to arrive at a highly focused plan to achieve my goals in investment real estate.

The book proposal is much more than an outline of a book concept. It is a business plan. It describes the why:

• the sense of urgency;
• how to apply the book’s core concepts and ideas in one’s business; and
• the desired outcomes.

The proposal also details the knowledge I was going to share, and how; understanding the audience and markets, I was going after; and how I needed to network and use social media to develop my book and business.

I have been a REIN (Real Estate Investment Network) http://www.reincanada.com member for over ten years and at one of my first training weekend conferences I had heard a great presenter; Peter Kinch. Peter said two things that stuck with me for over a decade, and ultimately his words helped me create my business mantra and my book’s focus for the audience I want as part of my tribe.

These two observations were: first, roughly 4% of all Canadians will ever buy real estate as an investment. Second, nearly half of that 4% only buy two or three properties as a way of supplementing their pension plan. ( 8% of Americans and Australians have investment real estate)

Over the years I have loved my association, membership, and education through REIN and in the beginning, I was motivated by their awards: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. I earned my Silver award level.

I had my “aha” moment when I realized that my joint venture partners loved the idea of owning investment real estate, but most were not REIN members and were not interested in awards for doors held. I knew then I had found my niche and to whom I was going to offer my service. I was going to serve first-time investment real estate investors or someone who just wanted a few doors in their financial portfolio and want a more balanced financial portfolio.

My wife and I had a balanced financial portfolio; a company pension, government pensions, and RRSP (401 K); all of these funds controlled by someone else, and we had little say in how our money was invested. We wanted one financial vehicle we could control, and this brought us to investment real estate.

I am focused on getting my audience to look at their lives and decided what order each door

I meet Matthew through a mutual friend. I had been listening to a ton of podcasting shows but did not know a local podcaster.

I was so happy to meet Matthew, and through his guidance, I have launched my very own podcast show.I have had a couple of setbacks in launching my podcast show. Matthew has been a real supporter and has never judged my setbacks. He is a Podcasting Professional.

Another reason I invited Matthew on my show is not only because he is a big influence on me getting my podcast launched; a big part of his show revolves around small business and entrepreneurship.

Investment Real Estate is for most people a small business, and you certainly need entrepreneurial qualities.

Welcome Matthew to the show and would you like to fill in any area of information you feel is important about yourself to share with the audience.

Question:

http://beeinfluenced.com

Great Name – How did you come up with the name, what influenced your choice of the name and the purpose behind the name?

Can you share your story about the BEE and What it represents?

Why a Podcast to Drive your business?

Listened to all of your podcast shows; it has been great for myself, lots of variety of guests, Tell us about your journey from your first podcast show to your current podcast show?

AWE Moment – Is there one thing on this journey that stands out as an “AWE” moment and influenced where you are today from when you first began?

Mentioned earlier a real variety of guests and topics from