I use AI to help me write. A guy in my comments called me a robot for it. He was wrong about me, and dead right about something bigger. Right there in a Facebook comment, under one of my posts: "Interesting, but every AI post on this site reads identically these...
Nobody asks if you should build. Only how. I can still get hypnotized by a number. Twenty-six years in, and a clean appraisal on a nice PDF still tugs at me for half a second. Big number. Bold font. A discount off the top, just for me. The number wants to be believed....
The crystal ball is broken. For everyone, mine included. So the real skill was never the real estate forecast... it's what you do with all of them. Let me tell you who's actually talking, because it should change how you hear this. I'm not a pundit. I'm an investor...
Rock bottom doesn’t bounce you. It drags you. Holding is allowed. Hiding is not. Here’s the honest checkup that tells you whether to hold, sell, or prune.
It started in January with a sore calf. Five months later, a doctor found blood clots in my lungs. Here’s what almost dying taught me about the quiet problems we keep ignoring.
The Leaving Problem · Part 2 of 2. The exit tax is the wrong tool. Here's the one lever you actually control... and the rule I hold myself to every time I coach. In Part 1, I told you about one of my clients walking his capital, his team, and his projects across the...
The Leaving Problem · Part 1 of 2. One of my clients moved his whole operation south. The opportunity wasn't the problem. That should stop all of us cold. One of my clients recently moved his entire investing operation to the United States. Capital. Plans. Ambition....
The 2026 Alberta Verdict for Canadian Real Estate Investors Here’s an embarrassing confession. The best performing analysis I’ve ever published was my Calgary vs Edmonton breakdown. People shared it, quoted it, built decisions on it. And then I let it sit for four...
Part 2 of 2. They cut a deal for the developer. They'll cushion the bank. But the couple who did everything right and bought the unit? Nobody is dialing their number. Last piece I told you everybody grabbed the blame thrower and aimed it at the developer. I made the...
Part 1 of 2. Everybody reached for the blame thrower when Carney and Eby announced the $3.2 billion condo deal. I reached for it too. I saw the headline and my first reaction was the same as yours. Bailout. No way. Markets should clear. Let the speculators eat the...
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