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This episode uncovers the fascinating journey of Nicole Fiori and her husband Colin, who left the comforts of familiar ground to plant roots in Vancouver in 2013.
A simple weekend workshop transformed their lives, pushing them to venture from single-family homes into joint ventures, capital raising, multi-family properties, and even land development. They’ve been kind enough to share their motto of connecting good people with good homes, and how this dedication to learning and networking has been fundamental to their success.
This couple’s journey hasn’t been a walk in the park. Over the past seven years, they’ve faced and overcome numerous challenges, from qualifying for mortgages to flipping multifamily properties. Having started with house hacking, they’ve built an impressive portfolio that today stands as a testament to the countless benefits of investing in multifamily real estate properties.
Listen as Nicole sheds light on how this unique investment opportunity can provide a pathway for those with numerous assets to build their wealth substantially.
As we round up this enlightening conversation, we shift gears from a focus on immediate cash to building long-term wealth, learning invaluable lessons along the way. Nicole also shares how they decided not to retire Colin early, instead opting to shift to land development.
This episode is a testament to the importance of reclaiming time when it comes to investing, and Nicole is here to share their wisdom with you. So sit back, relax, and prepare to be inspired.
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Real Estate Investing Podcast Transcript
Speaker 1
00:01
Welcome to the Inspired to Invest podcast, where we’re sharing stories from real estate investors and how investing has changed their lives. This episode of Inspire to Invest has been brought to you by Control and Compound Financial. Hey everybody, welcome to the Inspire to Invest podcast. I have an amazing guest today named Nicole Fiori, and she has a company called Coast to Coast Homes with her husband, Colin. And before we dive into questions, I’ll give you a little bit of background on Nicole and why I wanted her to be on this podcast for today.
00:35
So her and her husband, colin, began their real estate journey after attending a weekend transformative workshop. They prioritized learning, networking, building a team, and then they landed their first property. And so much has happened since then. They’ve committed to their growth and building a portfolio, and it’s gone from single family homes to joint ventures, capital raising, multi-family and land development and literally they built their portfolio in the East Coast but also all across the country. They have a motto connecting good people with good homes. So Colin and Nicole provide quality housing and profitable opportunities. So I think that’s nice. Those things go hand in hand, and their confidence, ongoing education and adaptability drive their success in the dynamic real estate industry. So thank you so much for being here today, nicole.
Speaker 2
01:23
Yeah, thank you for having me. I wish Colin could be here as well, but he’s sick, a little bit like you.
Speaker 1
01:29
Yeah, I’m going to go join him there, right yeah? So I guess what I want to know to begin with is what did life look like before real estate for you guys? Because I really just want to lay that framework as to where you started and what that catalyst was to really change your trajectory to where you guys are right now.
Speaker 2
01:44
Right yeah, Some people know this, but I always say that I am still a teacher. I feel like once a teacher, always a teacher. So I was a high school teacher, I was in Vancouver and then Colin was. So I taught English, english and history and then Colin was like a night I just call him an IT guy senior IT consultant he was. We were in Vancouver because he was the head of the Evergreen. Evergreen line it’s a Skytrain line that they were building in Vancouver.
02:17
Yeah, so we were living in Montreal at the time and we decided we wanted to go someplace exotic and because his company had all these opportunities across the world in Africa, in South America and then this opportunity came up and we were like, well, vancouver is exotic enough. Yeah, for people living in Montreal, vancouver was very exotic. So we moved there and, yeah, essentially we went to this Key Spire workshop and I always say that it changed the trajectory of our life completely because we saw real estate as more of a driver to get to where we wanted to go. I think we always considered the value of real estate.
Speaker 1
03:11
And Alonago was on it.
Speaker 2
03:12
2016 is when we joined. Okay. And then back, even back in 2012, colin had purchased a like a triplex with one of his friends yeah, so we all lived there together in one of the suites and then we rented out the other suites and that was initially our sort of venture into real estate.
Speaker 1
03:33
But to be honest, before you knew what house hacking was.
Speaker 2
03:36
Exactly, Exactly. It was a JV too, but we didn’t. If only we had like lessons of what we should be planning and what we should be forward thinking and have an exit strategy. Because when we moved from Montreal to Vancouver, well, they bought that triplex for 630,000 in 2012. And we moved to Vancouver in 2013 and sold our half because we didn’t think we’d be back and we held on to whatever cash we had and thought maybe we’ll be able to buy something in Vancouver. But at the time in East Van, where we moved, like empty lots were selling for like $750,000.
04:21
So I mean we just realized the vast difference in property values, so we held off and we didn’t buy anything, although I wish you know. You kind of think about well, maybe we could have made something work. Anything would have been great to get into back in 2013. But we didn’t, and we were renters in Vancouver. I think that’s why we now have. We were renters for a lot of our adult life and we have this really strong.
04:49
I have an affinity for tenants, right Like.
04:52
I just feel very strongly that they should be provided safe homes and treated with respect, because I feel like when you treat your tenants with respect and you treat the property that you’re giving them, which ends up being their home, then that’s how they treat it as well, and I fully believe that I’ve seen that play out. The properties that we like manage ourselves, the ones that we still own. In Ontario, we have long-term tenants and they’re very, very they’re very good to us. You know like they do a lot of the work that’s required, but you know, and they have no issues emailing or calling us and saying, hey, we need this or this or this, and we just say, yeah, sure, yeah, go provide that, because when you’re, when you’re not there right, like physically, in the space where your tenants are, you do have to rely a lot on them. So being able to provide everything that they need, and then as quickly as possible, it shows them that you want them to feel like that place is their home and that you’ll do what they need.
06:01
Yeah, that’s right. That’s often reciprocated. Yeah, that was how we moved from, I guess, a teacher and an IT consultant into interviewing real estate more as what’s going to get us to where we want to go. Yeah, it wasn’t the final push because I guess we still thought of it as a side hustle back then.
Speaker 1
06:24
So then what was that jump in? So you went to the summit and you kind of learned, yeah, and what did you guys do next, like what was your first adventure and where did it?
Speaker 2
06:32
come from there. So, being people from Vancouver, renting in Vancouver, not having a home, we couldn’t refinance our home and get a bunch of equity and start investing that way. But we also weren’t going to be the working partner in a proper like physically doing all the work in Vancouver, because, again, we had two full-time jobs and that wasn’t necessarily the path that we saw. Yeah, and it’s hard to buy. Even just a tear down in Vancouver in 2013 was a million.
Speaker 1
07:06
Yeah, yeah, that’s cool.
Speaker 2
07:10
That’s when we started our own private lending. That’s when we started lending out our RSP because we had amassed a certain amount. And when I say it was mostly Colin, I was a teacher right, we just have a pension and you put just tiny little bits. But he had a corporate job who had they did great matching. So we had a good share of RSPs and after that weekend workshop we’re like, ok, I believe in the power of real estate and so we moved it all from Desjardins into a trust company. And that’s when we started researching how to do it.
07:49
At the time it wasn’t just one company, there was a few companies that you could choose from. So we put some here and some here and we invested with land development and we invested with syndicated mortgages and we invested privately. So we did all of that. But that process made us really understand what it’s like to be a lender. And in that time period I think a lot of people saw because Colin was the one who would walk people through the process they would be like so I feel like you’re doing some private lending. Can you show me how to move my money from the bank? It’s not a very difficult process, I know, you know.
Speaker 1
08:30
But it’s almost like people need that handholding. They haven’t gone through the education like you guys did. I feel like what you’re describing is very similar to my journey as well, just getting educated on it. Now, once people become familiar with the fact that you’re doing it, then they look at you as that resource and they lean on you just to show them the way and kind of shine that light.
Speaker 2
08:49
Yeah, exactly, and so we did that. And that’s what we did for a year, alongside researching markets and building our team, and that was a huge thing. When we first looked to real estate investing, we looked at three different markets. We looked at Winnipeg, st Catharines, ontario, and Cambridge, ontario. They were all good markets at the time and we eventually just chose Cambridge because of our realtor. We had connected with the realtor, she was extremely helpful and she also had a few other contacts within the Cambridge market, so she had a team of contractors. We just, I mean, we connected with her. Really, that’s truly it. And then we bought the house that smelled like cat piss because she walked through it and she said, whoo, I’m the only one that’s going there for you guys. So in a market at that time so it was 2017 when we purchased so we bought it within the first year yeah, in that market, it was actually like things were going in Cambridge $150,000 over asking.
Speaker 1
09:56
Yeah, well, 2017 is kind of when things really started to shift here, right?
Speaker 2
10:00
Yeah, yeah and so, but nobody looked at this house because it smelled like cat pee and that’s the door and what? The house? Yeah, exactly, she hated it. She’s like I’m not, I don’t know if I’m gonna go downstairs for you guys. And then she’s like, oh okay, she went downstairs and checked it out and so that’s the house that we purchased. So, in a market that was going $150,000 over asking, we got it for asking, right, like we, just we got it, and what? Would that have cost at that?
Speaker 1
10:26
point in time.
Speaker 3
10:27
Yeah.
Speaker 1
10:27
So what would that like the list price been at that point in time?
Speaker 3
10:30
Oh, what was it?
Speaker 1
10:31
What was the?
Speaker 2
10:31
list price. Oh, I think it was 340. Okay, yeah, I think it was 340 and 380.
Speaker 1
10:38
I can’t remember so basically the cost of like a shed in Vancouver.
Speaker 2
10:42
Yeah, exactly, oh yeah. We weren’t gonna get anything, not even a condo.
10:46
You couldn’t even get a condo in Vancouver at that time for that amount. So, yeah, we bought that house. So we it was already like a bare basement. They had already demoed whatever was there before and we put the suite in and then we renovated the upper level a little bit like kitchen and bathroom. And then we you know, that was our duplex and that was the first property that we held on to. We refinanced, eventually we were able to pull all our money out and that eventually became the down payment for our next property that we purchased when we moved from Vancouver to Ontario, nice. So we still hold that property and we’ve, I think we’ve refinanced twice. So and it’s up until the last interest rate hike I think it’s probably just barely cash flowing, but it’s cash flowed wonderfully this whole time yeah.
Speaker 1
11:43
And it’s certainly the bigger purpose of just helping you put that into your other investments, right? Yeah, so you said that you were a teacher before, so I’m assuming you’re not a teacher now. So I wanted to take you then to go from, you know, buying this first property to moving over to investing full time.
Speaker 2
11:59
So I sort of like fell into real estate investor full time by accident just because I had two kids and then we moved across the country and then you know the pandemic with you know lockdowns, so it just happened that I didn’t go back into teaching after my daughter you know like our youngest became the age that she’d go into daycare. We moved twice in that time period. So I could go back and we talk about it still, because Collins still works full time. But it’s a bit tricky.
12:32
You know he’s got the benefits and he’s been there for 20 years. You know he has this like great, like history, and so banks, banks prefer that kind of T4 as opposed to oh, you’re just a substitute teacher now and the reality is that as a real estate investor, unfortunately there’s still no magic, you know solution to say you know that the banks are going to give you a mortgage on a new home with no T4s, like, yes, we can set things up where we have money from our corp and you know, but that’s a bit of a process. So you know we’ve unfortunately made the decision that he’s going to keep that job so that when we because we haven’t moved into our forever home, you know we are going to need that.
Speaker 1
13:24
So it serves the purposes that you need now. But to your point, when you talk about qualifying, I think that’s why so many investors you know there’s a number of reasons but why they’re also attracted to multifamily, right? Right, because it’s actually easier to qualify for a bigger property than for a smaller one. So I think a lot of investors don’t realize, like, how the banks actually look at that stuff, right?
Speaker 2
13:44
Right, yeah, and so we really like multifamily. Because what ends up happening is that and this happened to us we own two homes in Ontario and that was the end of our qualifying power, essentially because homes in Ontario have huge mortgages, yeah, and so that’s a great opportunity for somebody who has a lot of assets. So they look good. They look good in one sense, but they can no longer qualify for a traditional mortgage. However, if you’re going to find a multifamily property, as some of us know, it’s the apartment building that qualifies for the mortgage, but you still have to be in the corporation or you still have to be there as part of it, and if you own a lot of assets, that’s what the bank is looking for.
14:39
So multifamily is a good opportunity for somebody who does have lots of assets. They can’t buy another duplex or fourplex because they have no more mortgage capabilities. The banks will give them another mortgage, but the bank will look at them and look at all their assets and say, okay, you can support if something happens to this building, you can support that with all your other buildings. So that’s the wonderful part of multifamily and that’s eventually what we started purchasing not solely us, but we partner with other people to purchase multifamily.
Speaker 1
15:22
So what does your portfolio look like today, then? This has been, I guess, seven years since he got started. I can’t believe it’s been that long.
Speaker 2
15:30
Yeah, 2016 is when we joined. 2017 is when we bought our first property, our second property, that we essentially did the same thing. We did a house hack, though, because we lived in one half that was 2019. And then end of 2020, beginning of 2020, and then all of 2021 is when we built our portfolio to where, essentially to where it stands today.
Speaker 1
15:56
I never remember exactly how many I know that in 2021, there’s so many I can’t remember.
Speaker 2
16:01
Well, we bought 30 properties in 2021. Some of them we sold, some after the fact we bought it in a portfolio and then we sold a few after Some of them were flips. So those were always planned to sell and I think we did own one, two, three, four we did own five multifalys, and then we’ve since sold one.
Speaker 1
16:24
Yeah, I mean, that’s obviously a big jump to go from like you bought one, you bought two, then we bought 30. Yeah, I know For anyone that’s watching like how did you do that? Like I’m sure most people will be like what the heck?
Speaker 2
16:35
I know. So you skipped over the good particle, yeah, yeah, no, I mean I did. I skipped over the good part and the good part was joining another. So Keesbire I always tell people Keesbire is this amazing program that made us completely change our perspective and changed our trajectory. We would still be just a teacher and an IT consultant right now, probably with, maybe you know, like a basement suite.
17:02
But we decided or we eventually joined another mentorship program. So some of the stage presenters from the Keesbire program have a mentorship program Corey and Tiffany Young and that was the program that made us make that switch from side hustle to business and when you think of your real estate investing as your business, it really does shift how you start operating and then when you change how you operate, other people change how they see you. Yeah, and that was a really big. It was pivotal for us. I still remember the moment that I remember seeing I was in the kitchen. We were living in this place. That was completely open concept, which was great, except when the pandemic hit. It was the home office, the kids play table, the kitchen, the living room the playroom TV.
18:00
It was everything. So I was in the kitchen calling within the living room, which was five feet away from me, and he was talking to a commercial mortgage manager at National Bank here at Monkdon, or something like that, and I was like, oh, he’s a real estate investor. Everything that he’s asking, that’s who he is, that’s who he sees himself as, and then I saw him as that and I think that was a very important shift for us, because then we started providing opportunities to the public and again during COVID, it was a time when people were very open to having these kinds of conversations online. I think originally there would be always. You know, you would necessarily have to see someone in person in order to invest with them. That was typically what you do, whereas now you couldn’t do that and so.
18:58
But that opened up the possibilities of people for me to talk to somebody across the country, and so that’s essentially what started happening. We started having opportunities come to us. Because of our networking, because of, you know, getting into the Monkdon market at a certain time and creating relationships with certain people. These opportunities started coming to us and then we started providing them to our community and you know, we had already built these relationships with people who maybe called us and said hey, can you walk me through the private lending process? And so we had this and we shared everything. We started just sharing everything online, everything that we did, because we’d gone through to sort of flip to yourself and that, I think, gave people I guess it brought us to their attention essentially. And then, when we had these opportunities, we started having conversations and it’s just kind of like a momentum thing that starts happening, and 2021 was a time when you could buy a duplex in Monkdon for $200,000. Yeah, that’s great.
Speaker 1
20:12
And that was very attractive. Yeah, yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 2
20:15
And you could still pass low with it.
Speaker 1
20:17
When you look back at these seven years, I’m like would you define that year as you know, your biggest success, or is there something else that stands out in your mind to be like you know that was really like our biggest success?
Speaker 2
20:28
I okay. So I really think that it’s been the year that we took off as more of a success for us, because that was the time when we took a moment, we had another mental shift, and so now we’re not just looking at it as a business, but we’re looking at it as building out a business. And I feel like this past year has been way more transformational, because we are not just looking at this as a little a small business, we’re entrepreneurs. And changing that, having that mindset, really makes you start looking at how to build out systems, how to hire people. And then there’s this whole other side of it that feels I’m searching for another word other than legacy, but it’s kind of what it feels like. It’s like it’s building out this much bigger thing.
Speaker 1
21:35
Yeah, Well, you’re building like your generational wealth right, like it’s something that you can literally pass on to your family, and you think, if that continued, how that kind of goes down the chain and stuff like that.
Speaker 2
21:46
Yeah, I mean it’s much more longterm thinking, as, I guess, is all I can think. Like we bought a bunch of homes in 2021 and we bought them with the idea like long-term buy and hold and the idea that maybe the cash flow would be able to support us. But, as we all know, cash flow is not reliable. It really just isn’t, especially when interest rates just change so quickly it within the span of a year. Now a lot of people ask me about all of our marketing properties. I had this question on the weekend. Like you don’t seem really stressed about the interest rates, I’m like well, that’s because it depends on how big the change is. But even a big change in interest rate to a small mortgage is okay, right.
Speaker 1
22:33
All we’re having is cash flow. That’s an important point is that you went into markets where you stood the chance to cash flow, right, like you didn’t go somewhere where you’re already in the negative. Like I think sometimes people were in these different markets where, if they’re already walking that line, well, change in interest rate is gonna have a big impact on you, right? And then you’re maybe offloading properties or you’re trying to like inject more money in from another property, like it all depends, right.
22:57
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Speaker 2
23:06
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23:19
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Speaker 1
24:24
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24:59
Come back to Inspired to Invest. I have Nicole here with me from Coast to Coast Homes and she’s talking about how she was able to go from a couple rental properties to buying 30 properties all in the same year and basically what shifted with that. So we talked about some of those successes and that shift in your mindset to go from cash-loaded thinking of your legacy and your long-term wealth for your family. Now can we talk a little bit about your lessons. What would you say has been some of the biggest learnings and obstacles that you’ve faced and learned over the last few years?
Speaker 2
25:30
So when you move really quickly, that’s when things sort of I don’t want to say fall through the cracks, because I think that Colin and I, over that year, as towards the ending of the year or maybe into 2022, I think we were like this, trying to catch everything right, and I think we did a pretty good job of that. But it was that I mean, that’s hard, right. It’s hard on a person, it’s hard on a couple, a relationship, it’s hard on a family. We also moved again in that time period and so one of the things that you know, one of the biggest lessons, is that I think that we needed to slow down a little bit earlier, which fair enough. Whatever people go, go, go, and when you have the opportunity, you take it. It’s very, very normal, especially with, like, once you get into that entrepreneurial mindset, like I think that people just naturally just want to take on all the opportunities. But so now we have a different, but we have a different criteria of what we’re looking for, right, and what we didn’t have initially was that criteria.
Speaker 1
26:47
We just picked anything like anything that looked good. If we ran the numbers it looked good, yeah perfect.
Speaker 2
26:51
Why not? Because now that we have a different criteria and we’ve taken the time to think about that, it’s a lot easier to say, you know, like, yeah, that’s a great opportunity, but that’s not for us, and that or it’s not for us.
Speaker 1
27:04
What would that look like? Is that another interview, when they were talking about that as well is just, you know, aligning all your decisions with what your long-term goal is. So for you guys, like, what does that? Like, what does it take for something to measure up in your mind?
Speaker 2
27:17
So it’s something that needs to be able to pay out. So we need to be able to figure out how to pay ourselves now, as opposed to paying ourselves in five to seven years from now, right, and so that’s been a big learning, learning step, because it is tricky to have those conversations with and not investors, like most people understand that. Yeah, you have to be paid in order to do the job that you’re doing.
27:46
But sometimes you have to even have that mindset shift in yourself to say that, yes, I deserve to be paid right, like for the work that I’m doing. So you know we need to have that now. But really, like in Monkton is still a really great market, like you can still, people are still moving here, the opportunities are still here. Investors are moving quickly off the market once again, like they were back in 2021. But we’re not necessarily looking at that anymore because there’s a lot more we can do with a 32 unit building versus, you know, like 16 duplexes, and that’s a. There’s a lot more to manage with 16 duplexes. There’s a lot more partners, there’s a lot more. I mean, it’s just it’s not the same. And so that’s another thing Like, because we made the decision not to retire Colin early, he’ll still be working for a little while.
28:52
Like we really do need to reclaim our time. So there’s a time thing, there’s a. You know there’s a initial upfront capital thing. And then again, like what’s what’s good right now? Like right now, land development is something that a lot of people are interested. You know, the four purpose rentals, like the four purpose new builds, are really important right now, not just in terms of I don’t know what people are talking about, but also in terms of what, what we need right. This country needs homes.
Speaker 1
29:29
Yeah, yeah, we needed right and we’re going to invest our time Right. When you think about, you know, having your portfolio and managing them and stuff like that, what would you say is the craziest thing that you guys have experienced so far?
Speaker 2
29:44
Oh well, I think we picked up a couple of apartment buildings that were not the mix of sweets was a bit, I guess, undesirable. Most people don’t want to pick up a building that has a bunch of studios and one bedrooms, but we bought one and when we did the walkthrough of the first one, I wasn’t there for that one. But Colin has some good stories of he’s like. We did our walkthrough today. It was the first time we got to see it in person.
30:12
The cops were called like I don’t know, yeah, so it was one of those things, but it was also, I mean, that’s an opportunity for growth, right? Yeah, because we had purchased it in January, I think Colin, I remember, called the RCMP again, maybe this January or it was, I think it was about a year later and he said, hey, I would love to know the stats on how often you get called to this building now because they have that. And he’s like, oh yeah, the person he spoke with he’s like, oh, I know that building. We used to go there all the time. Oh dear, they almost never go anymore.
30:48
So it was a very clear reduction in what it was and that was a long process and that was a huge learning curve for us and we had to let go of one property manager and have follow up with another property manager. But that was I mean. It was along those learnings that we realized that one of our assets is actually that we are problem solvers. The world of real estate investing is not all roses. It’s not a golden path to like a pot of gold at the end of the road. So we really see ourselves now as problem solvers.
31:32
That’s one of our main jobs and we do that really well yeah.
Speaker 1
31:36
And I think that’s how you can demonstrate yourself as an expert for your joint venture partners and people looking to invest, because you can talk now about the experiences you’ve had and how you’ve made something better and come out successful. On the other side. Now you talked about building your long term wealth. Is there a particular financial freedom number that you and Colin have discussed? That it doesn’t mean that it’s the beyond and all but like when you could say well, maybe he would retire if X came to be.
Speaker 2
32:04
You know, I don’t know if I mean we have. We’ve always toy around with a number and we’ve gotten close to that number, but it’s more. It’s more the security and the long term, like I think we’d have to be. We’d have to have acquired that regularly for a long time for us to feel comfortable doing that. But it’s more of a timeline. I think, like we both love what we do and if, if, as long as we can balance to like the fact that he works full time and the fact that this is also full time, then we’ll keep going. But I kind of said in two years, I don’t know, it’s not that people go to school.
Speaker 1
32:49
Whenever you’re here before you know it right? Yeah, I know, I know. Now, what would you say is the best advice that you guys have ever been given?
Speaker 2
32:57
I think it was from Corey and Tiffany, and it was right before we had our very first opportunity to put out and they said that you are the people who are investing in you, not your opportunity. Yeah, you have to tell who you are like you. That’s what you put out there. You know, right. A blurb on like how amazing this asset is and you know what the ROI is gonna be in, blah, blah, like it’s not that People are investing in you, not the, not necessarily the building.
Speaker 1
33:24
Yeah, I can understand that. I mean, there’s even been people that have sent things my way and just how they communicated. I was like, nope, yeah, I mean I’ve seen like their successes, like it seems like they’re doing well, and I just, you know, you just don’t have that feeling that it’s gonna be the right fit, right, right.
33:39
Yeah, we have that too In terms of votes. Like, obviously I’m a big believer and just you know I love motivational quotes and inspiration and stuff like that. So is there any particular quote that resonates really well with you guys?
Speaker 2
33:52
so we I kind of have to and they’re from my like right at the very beginning, when everything sort of changed. And One is the what. The big one for me is from Marie Forleo Everything is figure-outable like that. Really, I don’t know it’s so simple now. Yeah, I don’t even think about it, but I live my life by it. Yeah, the fact that everything is figure-outable and you don’t need to stress about everything, yeah, that’s, that was a wonderful gift.
34:20
And the other one is from my friend, melanie Robinson, who said if you’re gonna make it up, make it up good. Yeah, and that’s the whole concept is that we don’t know what’s going on in other people’s heads. When you’re about to go on a call with an investor and you’re really worried, they’re gonna say no, they’re gonna say no. Or oh my god, I’m gonna come across weird like Take a deep breath, just Imagine the most positive thing happening as opposed to the most negative thing happening. Because if we’re all just making things up in our heads All the time, yeah, you’re gonna make it up, make it up good.
Speaker 1
34:53
Yeah, no, I love that now for anyone that does want to connect with you to learn more about the opportunities that you guys have. How can people get a hold of you?
Speaker 2
35:00
So our Our Facebook. We’re just on Facebook as coast-to-coast homes Canada and you can message there. Instagram is good homes Canada. Our website is coast-to-coast homes dot ca and then you can just email us at info at coast-to-coast homes dot ca right.
Speaker 1
35:19
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