July Ono REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT HUB

Met up with Laurie Ford in Ontario on May 8, 2013. She was one of the first two people to contact me when she found this blog about fitness trainer Jose Cruz and his unscrupulous business activities. She knew him ten years ago, and has an outstanding judgement that she is still waiting to serve [...]

This is a newsletter written by one of my business coaches, Andrew Barber-Starkey. I love it because he nailed it. This weekend I participated in a great event called Speed Coaching that was organized by Shawn Bearman. We had a group of highly qualified coaches on hand. Small business owners who attended were able to [...]

This blog is in response to a frequently asked question. I’ve replied to dozens of similar questions and here is my answer to this question: I’m a real estate investor and thinking of creating multiple sources of income. Should I become a real estate agent or property manager? I asked a similar question to a [...]

Have you ever heard of the Biosphere experiment? The University of Arizona built a $200 million self-contained biosphere of the planet in the 1980’s. They discovered that without wind to create stress, the trees in the biosphere were weak and fell over. The lack of stress in an environment is actually detrimental to its being [...]

  Jose Cruz, the scammer, has been located in Surrey and served. This has been 3 years in the waiting for Jose to return to British Columbia. He was served a Notice of Hearing and did not show up on March 1, 2011 at which time I was awarded a Default Payment Order. He fled [...]

John has sold over 21 million books. His newest book is “The 15 Laws of Growth”. John explains that growth doesn’t continue unless it is intentional. We all have accidental spurts of growth from unplanned experiences. If you don’t know what to do with that growth, you pretty much lose the benefits. Be purposeful every [...]

When we do joint venture, and only one of the partners is putting the down payment and signing on the mortgage, what do you suggest for that? KdM Here are some things to consider. You don’t necessarily want or need all the partners to be on title because this will affect the group’s ability to [...]

Andrew Barber-Starkey’s brand new seminar “How To Take Your Business From Surviving To Thriving” Andrew’s been working on this seminar virtually full-time since last October and at last it is ready to launch. It is without question the most powerful seminar he has ever created. He is both excited and terrified about it. Deep in [...]

I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Paul G. Stoltz, author of The Adversity Quotient and The Adversity Advantage, and listening to his wonderful pearls of wisdom. The average person experiences about 33 adversities per day. It is how they respond that measures their resilience (the capacity to strengthen and improve by adversity). A person [...]

If you’re going to flip a property, then become an expert at flipping. If you’re flipping a property as a way to generate a lump sum of cash for another project, then you need to take a look at the other project and your reason for flipping. It takes on average two to three years [...]