When it comes to making real estate investment decisions, a key choice that investors face is whether to invest personally or through a corporation. Although a corporation can provide many benefits including tax advantages, improve investment options, and increase flexibility, it’s not without its drawbacks. To help investors better understand the risk and opportunities involved […]

By end of June, most Canadians have filed their personal returns in April and are working through their self-employed and corporate tax returns in June. We can all now relax and enjoy the summer! Summer is a great time to relax but also a great time to reflect. Was your Tax Season too taxing? Before […]

As I meet with Real Estate Investors and Developers they usually tell me “I have Fred or Sally handling my bookkeeping for the past 15 years. They key in my invoices into Quickbooks desktop, print cheques for me to sign, go to the bank to deposit the rents, and send me my financials at the […]

Real Estate Development is capital intensive and involves many simultaneous workstreams to ensure your cash flow is managed efficiently. One might ask, isn’t it just bookkeeping and invoice payment? Is it really that complex? The short answer is “it depends”. If you have the right process with controls and process accountability you can efficiently run […]

There are a number of ways to hold your Real Estate Investment including personally, through a corporation, partnership, Trust, mutual fund trust, and more! Real Estate Investors frequently ask us if they should setup a separate Real Estate Investment Corporation or simply hold the asset personally? We also frequently get the question if they should […]

The 2024 Federal Budget has proposed a number of changes that have caused an uproar with voters and the LinkedIn community. I thought it would be important to run through the changes and how they impact Real Estate Investors and Developers. At a macro-level, real estate gets built and funded based on free-flowing capital. Our […]