Day: February 2, 2009

Hi Everyone,

Today is a good day – I passed my last Real Estate exam, and now I can apply for my Real Estate License! A few board fees, some insurance, registration fees, and I am IN! Who will I work for? Remax? Royal Lepage? NO! Partners Advantage GMAC Real Estate! The team over there is truly one of a kind – generous, cheerful, kind, extremely resourceful, very intelligent, and my favourite – DRIVEN! The broker I will be working for is none other than Ottawa’s own Dr. Bruce Firestone – best known as the Founder of the Ottawa Senators, but also as the Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Ottawa. I could go on forever about the TEAM and Dr. Firestone (his resume is about 4 feet long), but its enough to say that this is where I will be building my career and taking my life and as many others as I can to another level of success, happiness and wealth.

It has been over ten years now that I have been involved in Real Estate, and I have always wanted to get my license and help people start their own real estate projects, investments or purchase their live-in homes.

I remember being 16 years old starting one of my first jobs doing historical home renovations and restorations with my sister’s father in law. I loved the character of the old houses downtown, and even in a few pocket neighbourhoods in Ottawa. I would often find myself daydreaming about living in one myself, and how neat it would be to get a view of all these different kinds of homes and see what others are doing with them. The curiosity led me to purchase my own properties and develop them into beautiful living spaces that people would warm up to right away. As we speak, I am putting together a development project in the east end on Roslyn Avenue – Orleans’ only waterfront street! What can I say? I love what I do!

Just this past Friday (January 30th), my fiancé and I bought ourselves a diamond-in-the-rough 3 bedroom court-home in Kanata, and my mother in law just YESTERDAY purchased a beautiful duplex off of Beechwood Avenue. I will be showing my good friend his potential first investment property tomorrow night, and another good friend his very first the day after. It’s the time to buy!

Real Estate in Ottawa is truly a great market in a great industry. We are fortunate enough to have the tremendous ‘public service cushion’ as I like to call it – which sees a large portion of our population employed in the public service, and therefore at less risk of losing their jobs, and in turn stabilizing our economy in these ‘rough’ times.

I wonder, to people realize HOW LOW lending rates are right now?

Do they realize that these deals have not been seen in over 50 YEARS?

Have they seen what the 2009 Budget is offering as incentives for you to STOP reading my blog, pick up the phone, and find out how YOU can EASILY afford Real Estate?

Don’t have enough for a down-payment on a property? THAT’S OK!! What about your RRSP’s? The BUDGET just increased the allowable contribution from RRSP’s for a first time home buyer up to $25,000.00!

Don’t have 25K in your RRSP’s? Not many people do anymore after investing their hard earned money into intangible assets like the stock market, so fortunately for the rest of us, there are programs out there RIGHT NOW for ‘free down-payments’ that can take care of it! All you need is closing costs!

Worried about how the closing costs will affect your bottom line? The BUDGET just announced tax credits to be applied to these!

See? ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

You OWE it to yourself to see if you can find a way to take advantage of these opportunities.

STOP renting, and BUY for the same costs or even lower! Already own a home? INVEST in something! I just saw a 140K condo in Kanata on the market two weeks ago that was for sale, and currently leased until November 2009 at $1100 a month! That would EASILY pay for itself and put REAL MONEY in your pockets!

THERE ARE DEALS OUT THERE!

I should congratulate those of you who have had the sense to ASK and see if you can benefit – because many of you have, and I am so happy you did (not as happy as you are though, that’s for sure). And you know what, not EVERYONE can get their hands on something right away, that’s a given. But the fact that you have taken the interest to read and to see if there is anything you can do shows that you genuinely want to make a change for the better and upgrade your LIFE with a more secure and profitable means of living – and that alone is what will set you on the path to structure your life in the proper direction if you get the right advice at the right time.

Don’t believe ME that it is the right time – believe the statistics, believe the budget, believe the Bank of Canada, believe the GOING OUT OF BUSINESS signs on stores, believe people around you that are making SOME kind of move – that NOW is the time to TAKE ADVANTAGE of the situation YOU are in and DO SOMETHING.

If you were drowning, and I threw you a life jacket – would you grab it?

Yes?

Good!

Give me a call, I wont let you down.

613/868-4383  www.mevans@partnersadvantage.ca