Mastermind Meetup

How to Build Multifamily and Laneway Suites in Toronto!! (feat. Expert Architect - Adam D. Brander) Date: April 23, 2024 For the first time ever, Volition Properties is hosting an event that will focus on the architectural design, development, and approvals process of transforming single-family homes into lucrative Multifamily Investment properties.  The "4+1" business model (i.e. 4plex + Laneway Suite) is quickly becoming one of the most popular development opportunities in Toronto.  That said, if your aspirations are even larger, we will also be touching on development opportunities up to 10 units, and also up to 30 units as well!!...

Mortgages & Interest Rates – Is The Worst Behind Us? (Interactive Session w/ Hugo Dos Reis) Date: Mar 27, 2024 Mortgages & Interest Rates are the MOST TALKED ABOUT TOPIC in the real estate industry these days.  Not a conversation goes by without someone chiming in with their 2 cents about whether rates are going up, down, or sideways. Let’s go beyond the clickbaity newspaper headlines and hear from a REAL industry expert.  Hugo Dos Reis is a partner at VINE Group, one of the top mortgage brokerages in Canada. They fund billions (that's not a typo!) in mortgages every...

STREET SMART TOUR: Little Italy Legal Luxury 4plex Conversion Date: November 11, 2023 Don’t miss this RARE CHANCE to tour IN-PERSON a Volition Investor's Legal Luxury 4plex Conversion Project in Little Italy! In Oct 2022, we held a Street Smart Tour at this VERY SAME PROPERTY while in the middle of construction while it was being converted to a Legal 4plex. Construction is finally nearing completion, and now you get to see the FINISHED PRODUCT! It's the Volition version of HGTV's Before & After photos 🙂 but for a REAL-LIFE INVESTMENT PROPERTY! The Volition Team will be walking through the...

Austin Yeh x Joint Ventures – “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” Date: October 18, 2023 Joint Ventures (or JVs for short) are the solution to every real estate problem, am I right? Have no money to invest – find a JV partner! Have too many properties and can’t qualify anymore – find a JV partner! Want to invest from your couch, never lift a finger and get great returns? JV, JV, JV!! Well, not so fast. As our members know, we like to paint the whole investing picture – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – and Joint Ventures are...

Ask Me Anything + Volition Experts + Summer Social = Best 3 Hours of Your Summer Date: August 16, 2023 Your most pressing questions about real estate investing in Toronto – ANSWERED LIVE AND IN-PERSON! What's on your mind? What's keeping you up at night? If it's keeping YOU up at night, chances are it's keeping OTHER PEOPLE up at night as well... and these are the very same concerns that we aim to address during our much-anticipated AMA! Bring your questions, and we'll bring answers! Inflation, interest rates, Bank of Canada, is there a bubble, what do I do with my condo...

Street Smart Tour: Duplex + Laneway Suite Build (Almost Completed!) Date: June 17, 2023 Our Street Smart Tours in the past have had a fantastic reception. You’ll learn first-hand what we look for when analyzing and evaluating a potential investment property so you’ll have that extra advantage as you make your future strategic investments! You’ll also learn about the high-level construction process and how we turn an average home into an investment goldmine. For those who participated in our VIRTUAL street smart tour last year (March 2022) and saw the duplex conversion on the Danforth, you may recall the Laneway...

Street Smart Tour: The Best Investment Properties To Buy in Toronto in 2023 Date: April 29, 2023 Following hot on the heels of our October 2022 Construction Street Smart Tour where there was a lineup of nearly 100 people ??? out the door and around the block, we are doing our first Street Smart Tour of 2023! We toured two types of properties that would be suitable for TWO different types of investors: 1. Owner Occupied House-Hack Investors: A duplex or triplex where you live in one unit, and rent out the rest. Typically there is a nicer "owner's suite"...

Financing 201: Changes in the Mortgage Industry that Affect Real Estate Investors Date: March 29, 2023 Financing is the SINGLE BIGGEST CHALLENGE facing real estate investors. We strive to solve problems, so we’re bringing in a titan in the industry, Hugo Dos Reis. Hugo is a partner at VINE Group, one of the top mortgage brokerages in Canada. They fund billions (that's not a typo!) in mortgages every year and have the expertise to handle complex investor and personal portfolios. Following on the heels of our January Meetup where we identified Toronto real estate investment opportunities, financing is the next...

Our Biggest WHY: Intergenerational Wealth Planning for our Kids & Aging Parents Date: February 15, 2023 Over the past 7 years, our Meetup has focused on teaching the ‘hows’ of real estate investment to over 4000+ investors – the economic fundamentals, strategies, and business models. In this session, we will switch gears to help you connect your ‘hows’ to your ‘whys’, starting with arguably the biggest reason we seek to build wealth: to support our families – young, old, and future. Many of us are part of the “sandwich generation” with children and aging parents or loved ones whom we hope to support through our...

Street Smart Tours: Laneway Suite and Fourplex Edition Date: October 22, 2022 We’ll be touring properties that are at different phases of completion and walking through the plans, high-level financials, and opening the floor to your questions. We will be joined by one of our contractor partners, Kyle Springer from 2x2 Construction, who will be leading the tour through a laneway suite designed by Lanescape. You’ll learn first-hand what we look for when analyzing and evaluating a potential investment property so you’ll have that extra advantage as you make your future strategic investments! Here’s what we covered: The business model...

Good Job, Good Income, Still Can't Buy A Primary Residence In The GTA?? Date: Wednesday, June 15 This will be a little bit different than our typical Investor Focussed Meetup. Definitely, we will be bringing our Investor Realtor lens and deep insights, but we will be focussing on a different pain point... "Good Job, Good Income, Still Can't Buy Your Primary Residence? Strategies To Home Ownership In An Expensive Market!" (yes, we are talking about the GTA!) In fact, we touch on some of this in the article that HGTV.ca wrote about Volition entitled: "Expert Tips That Will Help You...

Does Investing in Toronto Real Estate Still Make Sense Today? Date: Wednesday, May 4 The single most FAQ the Volition team has been asked in the past few months is: "Does Investing in Toronto Real Estate Still Make Sense Today?". We will reframe this question that is on everyone's mind, and dive into topics and recent developments including: Rising Interest Rates Inflation War in Ukraine and global uncertainty Non-Resident Speculation Tax (NRST) increase Open Bidding Process Rising Prices What is happening to Rents? Proposals for City of Toronto changes to the development process to build triplexes/4plexes (and up to 4...

“Financing Blueprint” - Strategies to Start & Continue Buying Properties! Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 Time: 6:30 - 9:00 pm Place: Zoom Join our Mastermind Meetup! Financing is the SINGLE BIGGEST CHALLENGE facing real estate investors. We strive to solve problems, so we’re bringing in a titan in the industry, Hugo Dos Reis. Hugo is a partner at VINE Group, one of the top mortgage brokerages in Canada. They fund billions (that's not a typo!) in mortgages every year and have the expertise to handle complex investor and personal portfolios. Following on the heels of our January Meetup where we...

Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 Time: 6:30 - 9:00 pm Place: Zoom Join our Mastermind Meetup for monthly real estate investing events! The holidays are done and the credit cards have been filled just as high as stockings. January is looking tight and keeping your job is on your mind, let alone early retirement. This time of year, we get approached by a lot of novice investors who want to take control of their financial futures. So, what better way to kick off 2022 than by reviewing our systematic method for investing in real estate based on our years of...

Laneway Suites are taking over the Toronto RE Market! With special guest speaker Tony Cunha from Lanescape Date: Wednesday, October 20 Time: 6:30 - 9:00 pm Place: Zoom HGTV said THIS housing trend was taking over the Toronto real estate market right now – or was it us?? Laneway suites have revolutionized cities like Vancouver and now they’re making waves in Toronto. The ability to build a laneway suite on a residential lot offers tremendous flexibility including rentals, work from home/flex spaces, and intergenerational living. It is an incredible opportunity for Volition investors to solve the problem of limited cashflow...

Become a Money Magnet – Learn How To Raise Capital with JV Master Dave Dubeau People aren’t investing in deals… they are investing in you. Date: Wednesday, September 15 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm Place: Zoom “There is more money chasing good deals than good deals chasing money.” There is truth to this old adage… but this statement is an incomplete perspective. Remember: people aren’t investing in deals… they are investing in you. As a result, before you are able to attract this kind of capital, you need to invest in evolving yourself into the type of person that people...

Massive Action: From zero to 90+ units before the age of 30! Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm You’ve listened to them on podcasts, watched them on YouTube, and seen them featured in Toronto Life; now they're gracing the Volition stage!! Volition is thrilled to welcome Austin Yeh and Mayu Thava, real estate investing superstars and leaders of RISE Network, as guest speakers! Like many others, Austin started exploring the world of real estate investing after reading the classic book Rich Dad, Poor Dad. UNLIKE many others, Austin took massive action and has grown his portfolio...

Toronto's Next Hottest Neighbourhoods! Why and how to invest there! Date: Wednesday, June 23 Place: Zoom Schedule: 6:30 - 7:00 pm: Online networking 7:00 - 9:00 pm: Presentations RSVP for free! Get ahead of the masses! Volition is going to show you four neighbourhoods to keep an eye on which have the potential of turning into Toronto's Next Hottest Neighbourhood. We will walk you through "Why this neighbourhood", the pros/cons of each, and which investment business models work in these areas. This isn't just throwing a dart at a map and hoping that we get lucky; this is based on decades...

AMA! Ask Me Anything - Live Q&A with Real Estate Investing Experts! Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm Place: Zoom Cost: Free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3BotqZQ_mk Back by popular demand, our Real Estate Investing AMA - Ask Me Anything! This edition will be centered around the following themes: How do you scale and grow your real estate business? You've bought your first or second rental property. Now what? Using your RRSPs to invest in real estate Structuring your Real Estate systems as a business Raising capital with JV partners We have put together an expert panel of Real Estate...

Insurance for INVESTORS – “Insuring” you avoid coverage pitfalls! Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm Place: Zoom Cost: Free Being a sophisticated investor requires mitigating risk from all angles. This month we welcome property insurance expert Dan Tetzlaff of Hub Insurance to bring attention to common coverage pitfalls in investment property insurance. Home insurance is typically an afterthought for most investors, and most investors typically shop around for the cheapest possible policy. Dan will bring to light how, in an attempt to save a nominal amount per month on a cheaper policy, you may be opening...

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2021 10 AM – 5 PM Online Tickets: $149 Register here: hopin.com/events/toronto-rei-masterclass We're going virtual for our second annual all-day Masterclass! If you only go to *one* event this year – THIS IS THE ONE! Come learn from the Volition team, Toronto’s real estate investment experts and organizers of the largest and most active Real Estate Investment Meetup in Toronto. We've helped clients generate $113M+ in wealth, and $10.3M+ in cashflow using these strategies and we are here to help you do the same. Who this Masterclass is for: If you are NEW to real estate investing and don’t...

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 6:30 - 9:00 pm We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. "There are only two types of real estate investors out there: ones who HAVE run out of money and ones who WILL run out of money." Let's all be the latter!! If you're a Real Estate Investor, you'll know that financing is your biggest pain in the ass (next to tenants, of course!). If you're a Real Estate Investor, you'll know that every property you buy makes it harder to buy the next one (because of the 50% rental offset and increased Debt...

Nothing is certain in life but death, taxes, and not having enough cash to fund your next deal...but what if there was a way to borrow from yourself?? Join us and guest speaker Mary Sun to learn about the basics and beyond of Life Insurance for sophisticated real estate investors. At the VERY LEAST you should be protecting your assets. But we never stop at the very least. If used correctly, life insurance can be an effective tool to accelerate you to achieving your goals - ACCESS TO CASH AND CAPITAL, LEVERAGE TO FUND YOUR NEXT PROPERTY, AND TAX-EXEMPT INVESTMENT...

For years, the Volition team has heard from casual investors that "Toronto doesn't work, it's too expensive, it doesn't cashflow". If you do what everyone else does, then you'll only get the same results as everyone else. At Volition, we're not interested in being like everyone else. We want to be better. We want to do better. We want to achieve more. At Volition, WE MAKE TORONTO WORK. This is the impetus for wanting to share with you the natural evolution of our well-established triplex business model, Legal Luxury Fourplexes. These are an extremely desirable asset class, attract top-quality tenants,...

COVID-19 presents a number of challenges and an air of uncertainty for those of us in the real estate investment sector. During these tense times, it takes a different approach to find investors and source capital for our ventures. Some people say: “just find a good deal and the money will find you.” Does that ring a bell? We’ve all heard it. Unfortunately, it’s NOT that simple. Especially right now…with such HUGE stock market volatility that have affected so many people (and their retirement savings). In reality, you need to have a bunch of investors who are already in the...

Following on the heels of our wildly popular FULL-DAY Quick Start Seminar on Feb 1 where we taught 100+ investors how, why, and where to invest in Toronto, we are finally having our first Meetup of 2020. We ran out of time on Feb 1 (apparently an 8 hour event just isn't long enough!). By all accounts, it was because Matt kept speaking for too long. While his tangents might have been interesting (to him, anyway), it meant that we only glazed over the some of materials that you investors told us that you want to learn more about. The...

  Photos from the event You can access the presentation slides here https://www.slideshare.net/VolitionProperties/volition-quick-start-presentation-feb-1st-2020 https://www.slideshare.net/VolitionProperties/insurance-2020-226815028 https://www.slideshare.net/VolitionProperties/finance-226815224 —– If you only go to *one* event this year – THIS IS THE ONE!  If you are new to real estate investing and don’t know how to get started – THIS IS THE EVENT FOR YOU! If you are a seasoned investor and are looking for ways to take your investing to the next level – THIS IS THE EVENT FOR YOU! If you have a partner/spouse/family who has reservations about your desire to invest in real estate and is concerned that it’s too risky – THIS IS THE...

Joint Ventures are the solution to every real estate problem, am I right? Have no money to invest - find a JV partner! Have too many properties and can’t qualify anymore - find a JV partner! Want to invest from your couch, never lift a finger and get great returns? JV, JV, JV!! Well, not so fast. As our members know, we like to paint the whole investing picture - the good, the bad and the ugly - and joint ventures are no exception. Come join us on October 16th, at Creeds Coffee Bar to hear from Erwin Szeto a...

Laneway housing has revolutionized cities like Vancouver and it’s here, now in Toronto. If you’re not familiar with laneway housing, the concept allows the use of the many laneways, which are typically used to access garages and other spaces, and allows for housing development along the laneway. Laneway housing is important to Toronto as it allows for both gentle densification and meets the requirements of the Official Plan. Savvy developers and seasoned investors are already starting to take advantage of laneway opportunities. Learn how to invest strategically and plan for this massive change to the Toronto housing landscape! We have...

When people think about development, they think of it as something reserved for rich, well-connected people. They envision high-rise condos, large commercial projects, or huge sub-divisions. This isn’t reality. Development can be as simple as splitting a large lot or building purpose rental homes. Most importantly, development is something the average person can work towards! What is reality is that development isn’t easy to learn - there are no courses, no books and certainly no seminars on development. The only way to learn is from someone else and most people don’t know someone who is a developer within their network...

The very first book I read that started me on the path to become a real estate investor, was Rich Dad, Poor Dad. In that book, Robert Kiyosaki uses an analogy on how wealth is built. Think about wealth as water and your finances are a bucket holding that water. Most people have one tap filling that bucket - their job. But they’ve got lots of holes in that bucket - bills, car payments, their mortgage, and **TAXES**. To build wealth, you’ve got to turn on as many taps as possible and close as many holes in your bucket as...

This is an ADVANCED-LEVEL MORTGAGE PLANNING session. This doesn't mean you have to be at an advanced-level and/or expert in order for this to be applicable to you, this just means that the LEVEL OF SOPHISTICATION that we will be bringing is top-notch. Financing is the SINGLE BIGGEST CHALLENGE facing real estate investors. There are only two types of real estate investors out there: ones who HAVE run out of money, and those who WILL run out of money. It’s no wonder when we polled our members, a session on mortgage planning was their #1 pick. We strive to solve...

During last month’s Street Smart Tour, we checked out 3 awesome cashflowing investment properties.  All of them were in the $7800-8200/month rent range, which is amazing… but they were also in the $1.75-1.85M range 🙁 These are the types of properties that we aspire to as sophisticated real estate investors.  But unfortunately, the reality is that only the 1%ers can actually ever afford to purchase them.  Right? Right?? WRONG!!   You will be able to purchase them too!!  Eventually. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but eventually.  How do we know this? Because we understand the mechanisms through which one...

September 20, 2018 - Volition Real Estate Investment Mastermind  LANEWAY SUITES! Learn what it takes to build and invest in laneway homes! Question: What's our number one job as real estate investors?? Answer: **To put our money to its highest and best use!!** https://www.slideshare.net/VolitionProperties/volition-meetup-201809 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lf67Pgr7A   With rising costs of property in Toronto, however, this is getting more and more difficult to do. Is the answer to look outside of Toronto for cheaper properties? No! As sophisticated investors, we know that along with lower prices comes increased risk. So what's the answer? DENSIFICATION!! Laneway housing in Toronto has been a...