Sarah Larbi, Alfonso Salemi, Daniel St. Jean & Laurel Simmons are interviewed together as the founding members on this special edition of The REITE Club podcast.
Guests: Sarah Larbi, Alfonso Salemi, Daniel St.Jean & Laurel Simmons
Sarah Larbi, Alfonso Salemi, Daniel St. Jean & Laurel Simmons are interviewed together as the founding members on this special edition of The REITE Club podcast.
This is the 50th episode of the podcast. The REITE Club was founded 3 years ago to bring people together to provide education on real estate investing. There were also no clubs of really great value that were in the Burlington/Hamilton region.
This episode dives into how The REITE Club got started and how the founders met each other and where it is going. There were only 101 attendees at the first event and now there are over 200 attendees.
The REITE Club is a great resource for attendees as there are accountants, lawyers, contractors, insurance brokers etc. in the room and there are various stages of investors from just getting started to investors who have done $10 million dollar development deals.
The mission statement for The REITE Club is “Come Grow With Us” and because of this, there have been many friendships and networks built just by being a part of the club.
In this episode learn about: – How The REITE Club got started – The growth of The REITE Club – Success stories – The future of The REITE Club
Dr. Colleen McQuarrie founded the Ottawa Integrative Health Centre in 2004, and continues her role as the Clinic Director, while practicing as a full time Naturopathic Doctor. Her primary focus is family health, fertility, prenatal care, menopause, pediatrics and functional neurology. In 2010, she was awarded the Ottawa Business Journals “Top Forty under 40” award.
Guest: Dr. Colleen McQuarrie, ND – Naturopathic Doctor
Dr. Colleen McQuarrie founded the Ottawa Integrative Health Centre in 2004, and continues her role as the Clinic Director, while practicing as a full time Naturopathic Doctor. Her primary focus is family health, fertility, prenatal care, menopause, pediatrics and functional neurology. In 2010, she was awarded the Ottawa Business Journals “Top Forty under 40” award.
With over 15 years as a practicing Naturopathic Doctor, Colleen is passionate about health, and provides seminars, workshops and lectures to special interest groups, as well as, medical students and private industry.
Colleen is a member of both the provincial and national Naturopathic Associations (OAND and CAND) since her days as a student. She remains engaged in her profession by acting as the Chair for the Board of Governors at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (www.ccnm.edu).
In this episode learn about:
What is a Naturopathic Doctor
Common health concerns for entrepreneurs
Stress hormones
Tips to improve our mood at home
Fasting benefits
Prebiotics vs. Probiotics
Book Mentioned:
Attracting Perfect Customers: The Power of Strategic Synchronicity by Stacey Hall
Sean Cooper bought his first house when he was just 27 and paid off his mortgage at 30. An in-demand personal finance journalist, best-selling author and speaker, his articles have been featured in publications such as the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Financial Post, MoneySense and Tangerine’s Forward Thinking blog.
He makes regular appearances on national radio and television shows to discuss personal finance, real estate, mortgages, pensions, and retirement planning. He lives debt-free in Toronto.
Guest: Personal Finance Journalist, Bestselling Author, Sean Cooper
In this episode learn about: – Why is it important to keep eye on your credit score – Tips on funding your mortgage – Easiest ways to come up with a downpayment – The 3 mortgage P’s (Penalty, Prepayment, Portability)
More about Sean Cooper: Sean is a fee-only money coach, specializing in budgeting, debt management and pensions. He is independent and unbiased — he’s not going to try to sell you investments. He provides simple, yet practical advice on saving money without sacrificing the things you love.
Alfonso Salemi is in the business of helping people who are struggling to get on the property ladder. With his business partner Adam Wissink, their company, JAAG Properties, specializes in rent-to-own programs that have allowed 100 families to move into a house they can call their own. Alfonso also serves on the board of CAROP the rent to own professionals association in Canada.
Guest: The REITE Club Podcast Co-Host, Alfonso
Salemi
After seeing and learning about the
opportunities in real estate investing Alfonso started his first Rent-To-Own in
2014 and incorporated JAAG Properties the same year. Alfonso has been an
essential partner in expanding JAAG Properties through many conferences and
meet-up groups and their highly popular professional partners program.
A graduate of Mohawk’s Marketing program, Alfonso’s
sales experience and public speaking skills have become an asset for JAAG
Properties and also for his other real estate investing involvement as
Co-Founder of The REITE Club and on the board of CAROP where he also conducts
video interviews of its members.
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By her mid-30’s, Sarah Larbi has successfully gone from zero to a 10-property portfolio in only 5 years. She has developed a real estate investing process that will give her the option to retire in under 15 years.
Guest: The REITE Club Podcast Co-Host, Sarah
Larbi
Primary Investment
Strategy: BRRR Strategy
Portfolio: 9 BRRR properties and 1 Vacation Rental
In this
episode learn about:
Where to get started in
real estate investing
Mistakes to avoid when
going from single to multiple properties
The importance of
diligent tenant screening
Why the key to real
estate investing success is about focus, planning and learning.
To get
in touch with Sarah: Visit her website www.sarahlarbi.com or follow her on Instagram
@investorsarahlarbi
More
about Sarah:
Sarah’s goal is to inspire Canadians to realize
their own property owning dreams by sharing her simple 7-step investment
process that can result in going from first property, whilst fully employed, to
planning retirement in around 15 years.
Her results-oriented approach has been featured
in The Toronto Star, 1010 News Talk Radio, and Canadian Real Estate Wealth
Magazine and she has been an invited speaker at the Canadian Real Estate Wealth
Investor Forum and several real estate investing meetings. She is also a
co-founder of The REITE Club.
Welcome to the very first episode of The REITE Club Podcast!
This episode is simply an introduction to The REITE Club Podcast. It outlines what this podcast is about, why we are launching it, and what to expect.
Thank you for choosing to Come Grow With Us!
Subscribe on iTunes by clicking this link or the subscribe button in the player and we would really appreciate if you can take a moment to give it 5 stars and leave a review.
Coming soon to Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher
If you enjoyed this episode, and we hope you did, please share it by clicking on the blue share button in the player and using the social media buttons.
If you have any comments or questions, feel free to post them in the Comments section below or email us grow (at) theREITEclub.com
Thanks again for listening and now go and grow your real estate investing business!
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Why we are doing this podcast and an overview
So why are we doing a podcast for The REITE Club?
We are consistently energized and inspired at our monthly REITE Club live events by people who are doing great things in real estate investing. That’s the speakers and many members of the audience.
Sadly not everyone is able to attend every meeting, or you are just too far away to make it to a live event. We wanted to bring that energy and knowledge right to where ever you are, hence the podcast!
We are going to interview people who have shown success in real estate investing and learn what they do to succeed, lessons learned and what they are doing now to keep things moving.
After you launch something, you need to feed it and grow it. There’s no such thing as “if you build it, they will come.”
That is why we’ll dig into the strategies and tactics our guests executed to make their initiatives grow, and the results they achieved. The idea is to learn actionable marketing and growth concepts from our guests, then take those concepts and be able to immediately apply them to grow our real estate investing businesses.
In summary, this podcast is going to be about being inspired by and learning from people who are growing and succeeding.
Podcast format
Now let’s talk a little about the format of this podcast.
Episodes will range from about 30 minutes to an hour. Each conversation is going to be a little bit different based on the guest’s background, but we will to stick to a consistent format so you know exactly what to expect in each episode.
But we won’t apologize if a conversation goes in a certain unexpected direction because we feel you will benefit from the guests insights and experience. First I’ll introduce our guest so you’ll know who they are, what company they work for or business they own, and what their role is.
We’ll talk about their background. We’ll dig into the decisions they made, their inspirations along the way, and how they got to where they are today.
We’ll also talk about the actionable strategies, tactics, and tips that they recommend you should consider if you want to take it further.
This will be a weekly podcast, and we will release an episode every Friday so you can download and take some time over the weekend to listen nad then maybe even take some of the lessons learned into your next week.
Our backgrounds
The founders of The REITE Club have come together and built something really quite special in the real estate investing event space and now we plan to do the same with the podcast.
Subscribe on iTunes by clicking this link and we would really appreciate if you can take a moment to give it 5 stars and leave a review.
Coming soon to Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher
If you enjoyed this episode, and we hope you did, please share it by clicking on the blue share button in the player and using the social media buttons.
If you have any comments or questions, feel free to post them in the Comments section below or email us grow (at) theREITEclub.com
Thanks again for listening and now go and grow your real estate investing business!
Finally, we want to thank you so much for choosing to Come Grow With Us
