All Forum Posts by: Eric Leon

Hey all! I am a new (hopeful) real estate investor but am a little overwhelmed on where to begin. Obviously, I know picking a market should be the first step so that lead me to get lost in a sea of Google results and articles. 

Thought I'd stop by here and ask the experts; where is your favourite place to get market research when looking for a new opportunity? Do you have any go-to sites? Any other approaches you take?

Love to hear all your thoughts.

@Ernesto Miguel Credito

No problem - it’s good to hear some other questions newer investors have!

So far there’s some great advice, but the general sense I’m getting is to just take in knowledge until the time comes to actually invest.

Hello BP world! I've been lurking around the forums for a while trying to take some of the knowledge that's being shared here and have started to learn quite a bit - but am looking for some of your opinions.

A little about me, I am currently living abroad in the UK for a short period of time, but am Canadian born and raised. I plan to be moving back to Ontario in the next 1-2 years and will be looking to enter the real estate market; leaning towards a buy-hold-rent kind of deal at least for the first few houses I look at. Ideally, I'd like my first deal to be something within driving distance (2-3 hours) of Toronto if possible before I start looking for more long-distance deals; however, I'm not really set on any specific province in the long term.

My main question is if you had to start your real estate journey again, and you had about a year before actually making the leap, how would you spend it? I've never purchased a house before, so I guess learning about that whole process, how to value houses, how to search for deals etc would be useful. But what sort of books/podcasts/courses  (other than BP podcasts which I am already listening to) would you recommend so that when I do land back in Canada I'm as ready to go as I can be?

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read and comment!