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The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians

Are you a Canadian real estate investor looking for real Canadian Content? You"ve found it! Since 2016, this weekly show has helped Canadians cut through the BS and uncover the truth about how to most effectively invest in real estate. Ranked as high as #81 globally in iTunes" Business category, host Erwin Szeto is a real estate investor and 4X Investor Realtor of the Year, with just under $500M in income property transactions. Erwin interviews top investors and wealth builders, sharing strategies

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00:59:29

An American Virtual Wholesaling From Canada

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/06/16

This week on The Truth About Real Estate Investing for Canadians, I’m joined by Nathan Payne, founder of Painless Flipping—and no, that’s not just a clever name. Nathan’s a full-time real estate wholesaler who runs his entire U.S.-based business virtually… from small-town Ontario, Canada.We get into: ✅ How he wholesales houses without ever meeting sellers in person ✅ His pivot during COVID that expanded his business nationwide ✅ Why he prefers wholesaling in the U.S. over Canada (spoiler: faster

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01:18:06

Who’s Fighting for Landlords? Canada’s Biggest...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/05/27

I’m thrilled to have Tony Irwin on the show today. Tony is the President and CEO of both the Canadian Federation of Apartment Associations (CFAA) and the Federation of Rental Housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO)—two of the largest organizations advocating for landlords and rental housing providers at the provincial and national levels.With years of experience in policy, government relations, and housing advocacy, Tony is at the forefront of the fight to protect landlords, encourage rental supply, and

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01:00:15

From Housing Crash to Acquiring $2 Billion of Real...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/05/12

Are you a Canadian investor struggling with low cash flow, rent control, or expensive renovations? In this episode, we sit down with Ben Barry, a U.S. real estate expert who's deployed over $2 billion in capital and helped transform how investors like you succeed south of the border. What You’ll Learn:How Canadian investors can tap into high-yield U.S. rental marketsWhy technology and data are changing the game in real estateThe real story behind turnkey rentals and institutional landlordsTips on

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51:09

From Housing Crash to Acquiring $2 Billion of Real...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/05/07

Hey friends, this is Erwin Szeto, and welcome to The Truth About Real Estate Investing for Canadians, where it’s my job to interview the top minds in real estate and business to uncover the strategies, mindsets, and habits that actually work—especially in today’s market. In today’s episode, I’m joined by Ben Berry, a true industry heavyweight who's successfully deployed over $2 billion into single-family rentals, build-to-rent, and commercial real estate assets. Ben’s journey began during the depths

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01:07:14

Lazy, Remote, Across CAN Investor & Big Results Over...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/05/01

Hey friends, this is Erwin Szeto, and welcome to The Truth About Real Estate Investing for Canadians, where it’s my job to interview the top minds in real estate and business to uncover the strategies, mindsets, and habits that actually work—especially in today’s market. My guest today is Michael Ponte—a full-time real estate investor, educator, and co-founder of Savvy Investor. He’s been investing for more than 20 years and owns a multi-provincial portfolio that spans Alberta, BC, and Atlantic

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01:07:49

Mortgage Market Update: Canada & USA w/ Unicorn...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/04/22

Greetings friends, this is Erwin Szeto, and welcome to The Truth About Real Estate Investing for Canadians, the #9 ranked podcast for Canadian Investment and Personal Finance per FeedSpot! Thank you listeners and past guests of this show! As always it’s a honour to have this platform and ability to give back to the community that has been so much to my family and I where we all share a passion for the best investment class in the world: real estate. Here on this show, it’s my job to interview the

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59:59

Powerhouse Conference: Kevin O’Leary, A-Rod, Dragons...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/04/11

✅ Understand why investors are shifting to U.S. markets ✅ Learn how to raise capital and structure bigger deals ✅ Hear what it takes to put 5,000 investors in a room with A-listers Ever wonder what it takes to build Canada’s biggest investing conference? My old friend Seth Ferguson, returns to the show, after losing all his rental properties to a nasty divorce along with his golf clubs, he started the Multifamily Conference in Covid in 2022 which was excellent, 2023 was headlined by Grant Cardone &

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22:34

Another Trip Around the Sun. The Worst Year for Real...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/04/02

It’s not all bad 🙂 Thank you to everyone who took time out of their busy schedules to wish me a happy birthday. The vast majority of messages came from the real estate investing community, and reading all the comments and seeing the names brought back a lot of memories—many from easier times for real estate investors. My fellow escape-room-loving, nerdy friends attempted to be among the elite 4% who successfully escape... #FAIL This mango cake tasted better than it looks The Problem: The

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01:01:01

From RCMP to Developing 66 and 20 Unit Apartment...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/03/14

From RCMP to Developing 66 and 20 Unit Apartment Buildings: Marc Amyot's Journey of Strategic Development Strategic Partnerships Matter: How mentorship from industry experts transformed Marc's real estate investing approach Location, Location, Innovation: Marc reveals how strategic site selection, zoning knowledge, and maximizing land use can turn a $640,000 property into a $7 million development project Breaking Down the Numbers: Inside two projects - a 66-unit and 20-unit apartment development,

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01:09:53

From Burnout, Heart Attack at 38 to 200 Doors &...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/03/05

On to this week’s show! This week we have an amazing guest who’s been on a bumpy path. I’ve known Ryan Carr for quite some time but when I attended Truth Your Talent’s Awards Gala, the coach who had the most award winners and thank yous was Ryan hence I invited Ryan Carr onto the show which he gracefully accepted. From household $400k income, Corporate Burnout to 200 door real estate portfolio and more importantly Financial Freedom: Ryan Carr's Remarkable Journey What happens when a high-powered

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01:09:55

$35K in Tenant Arrears: Solving Landlord Woes with...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/02/12

On to this week’s guest! I’m thrilled to introduce Wei Ting, an unstoppable entrepreneur, speaker, and innovator reshaping the rental landscape in Ontario with plans to expand across Canada. After losing over $35K to non-paying tenants and spending countless hours navigating Ontario’s complex rental compliance laws, Wei Ting decided enough was enough. She co-founded Openroom, a bold step toward building a transparent and connected rental ecosystem for landlords and tenants alike. And if that wasn’t

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01:44:00

"From Rent To Ruin" With Kevin Costain

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/02/06

On to this week’s guest, Kevin Costain is the poster boy for reform being needed in Ontario and he’s doing something about it as the new Chair of SOLO: Small Ownership Landlords of Ontario. He’s fighting for the small everyday investor like I do. He is the author of the book “Rent To Ruin” where he documents his ordeal with his tormentor: the tenant living in Kevin’s house. It is an all too common story where an everyday homeowner has a life change, makes what used to be a financially pragmatic

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01:11:53

From School Teacher to Real Estate Chief Education...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/01/30

On to this week’s show! We have my old friend Quentin D’Souza returning to the show at my request as I need a trustworthy real estate expert to share with you the listener about the multi family market who’s not going to sugar coat how tough the last few years have been and what and where the opportunity is going forward. Quentin is going to share his journey, how he does hard things and involves his family to lead his best, most successful life possible. Quentin is founder, Chief Education Officer

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01:12:36

Ontario Rental Market Update w/ Rent Panda

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/01/16

On to this week’s guest! Again, Hart is a friend, I refer him clients all the time for tenant location services. This may sound like a paid endorsement and full disclosure, Hart Pays me nothing. We receive zero compensation for me having Hart on this show and sending him referrals. It’s too bad we’re selling the rest of our Ontario portfolio in the near future so I could have asked him for favours but no. Nothing LOL. Which I don’t mind so my judgement is not clouded. We get a long because we’re

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01:15:11

Surviving & Thriving: Cory's 20-Year Journey from...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2025/01/02

Cory is a 20 year investor who's been through rough times back in the financial crisis, from Toronto he was investing on the wrong side of the tracks in London, Ontario, sleeping inside the renovation project as he didn’t have funds for trades and to cut down on his commute from Toronto. Fast forward to today, Cory’s been a full time investor for 2.5 years specializing in BRRRR investments, suiting basements, garden suites and an office to residential conversion that’s gone anything but smoothly

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01:02:03

Democratizing Real Estate Investing With Addy’s...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2024/12/16

Please welcome co-founder of Addy Stephen Jagger, I’m excited to have him, if you haven’t heard of Addy before, it’ll blow your mind. If you have, the advancements in deal offerings, technology will surprise you along with one of their investment vendors who went belly up. Oh yeah, this is the truth about real estate investing show so when deals go sideways, I’m going to ask about them, Stephen, kudos to him does not avoid my questions and better yet they’d already publicly addressed them.

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01:01:54

7 Figure, 20yr Appraiser From BC, To Real Estate...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2024/12/02

In this episode, we sit down with Christine Traynor, from Victoria, BC, a seasoned real estate professional who has navigated the industry from multiple angles. She started as a paralegal in mortgage enforcement/foreclosures, became an appraiser in 2002, worked in for a high end real estate developer then buying a real estate appraisal firm, buying two more with creative financing and in 2024, sold those businesses for a seven figure exit. What’s now keeping Christine busy is her current ventures

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01:17:39

$1M Losses, NEW Federal Gov't Lending For Developers...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2024/11/22

Now for those of you with deeper pockets and want to be developers closer to home, we have my old friend Pierre Paul Turgeon returning to the show. A former industry insider as an underwriter at the CMHC, active investor, and real estate expert in the apartment building space, who has analyzed 100s of large, lucrative multifamily investment deals all over Canada. As a good Canadian, Pierre Paul wants to help build more housing and believes it is developers in Canada who have the greatest potential

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49:08

Trump win, How a 33 Year Old Mechanic from Montreal a...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2024/11/13

This week we have an everyday, blue collar Canadian, 33 year old Shayne from Montreal who just bought his first investment property and he has executed a BRRRR in suburban Memphis, Tennessee. The ARV is substantially higher than projected, rent came in almost 10% higher. Shayne is the youngest client of mine by far for years and years so I’m of course excited to have been part of Shayne’s journey to become a successful investor and mentor him in scaling up to not just have a large portfolio but for

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01:03:15

Developing Healthcare & Senior Living Facilities w/...

The Truth About Real Estate Investing... for Canadians ·

2024/10/30

Today’s guest is Dr. Wing Lim, a true renaissance man - a dedicated medical professional and serial entrepreneur who has built an impressive portfolio of healthcare facilities and senior living communities. For over 30 years, he has balanced a thriving family medicine practice with innovative real estate ventures. Dr. Lim's impact extends far beyond the medical field. He has spearheaded the creation of the state-of-the-art Synergy Wellness Center and the award-winning Esther Gardens senior

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