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All Forum Posts by: Mathieu Gagnon

Mathieu Gagnon has started 8 posts and replied 14 times.

Post: $1 million or $5,000 a month for life

Mathieu GagnonPosted
  • New to Real Estate
  • Cowansville
  • Posts 18
  • Votes 5

I believe we mostly all agree that 1M is way better due to the infinite options with upsides.

With 1M you can at least buy 4M worth of assets.

That said. Very quick rule of thumb you can generate at least a 350K Gross annually. 

This is close to 240K+ Net if you have a good structure in place.

It's more than 20K/month.

Yes you might have to "work" but let's say you have a great team in place to manage it all, you can easily end up with 15K+/month.

And I'm not taking appreciation in count.

Enjoy with the 1M!

I want to be part of your team! Let's go travel the world!

MAG

Post: Canadians in the USA. Where to start.

Mathieu GagnonPosted
  • New to Real Estate
  • Cowansville
  • Posts 18
  • Votes 5

I'm from the suburban of Montreal, Canada.

I'm hearing so many successful stories about people investing in the US. 

We managed to gather 40K in cash for this project and have access to a lot more (Friends and Family money)

We want to start BRRRR in the USA.

But we need so much help with it.

We are willing for different kind of scenarios. 

We project to buy and hold single-family units but are open for something else. (Mobile park, lots, etc)

We understand that we have to create a structure first and maybe start with a single-family home but we are throwing this request out there.

So please.

If you have any tips or want to help in any kind of way we are more than interested to hear from you.

Talk to you soon.

Thank you a million times.

MAG

Post: Investors needed B/H single-family units or big lands/lots Quebec

Mathieu GagnonPosted
  • New to Real Estate
  • Cowansville
  • Posts 18
  • Votes 5

Thanks to BP for this opportunity.

We are looking for serious investors that want to invest in Quebec, Canada.

Investors proposition

Mission

Help 100 people acquire their financial independence through real estate, stock market investment before 2030.

Promises

-Acquire 3M in assets for January 1st 2020.

-Involve three investment partners that will double their money before January 1st 2024.

-Acquire 25M in assets for January 1st 2024.

Strategy

-Buying lands/lots and subdividing them for residential building construction.

-Buy/hold single-family homes.

-Approach and involve investors.

-100% invested

Structure

Investors can be partners in some of the deals

OR

Ask for a specific return for any kind of deals

Market chosen / Criteria /

+Single-family house

We are flexible and open to go remotely internationally but as a starter we are going to exploit Montreal, Qc suburban areas.

(Cities : Bromont, Granby, Longueuil, Beloeil, Brossard, Candiac, etc.)

Single-family home retailed in the range of 200-400K in those areas.

We buy them on sale 25-45% of their actual value and renovate them to increase their ARV to a 1.6x+ of the buying price.

Every project is different so the end result is the important number in our calculation.

We don’t fudge.

+Land/Lots

Same areas.

We buy, manage the subdivision, get the installations in place (sewage, electricity, water, roads), sell the lots in batch.

We buy 100K-300K lots at the moment and want to aim for bigger (1-20M).

Money is good when you aim for “in bulk”.

Return of 80-100% in a timeframe of 2-4 years.

Financing/Exit

The financing plan is to use investors’ money as a leverage.

For houses, most of our deals will be bought cash to have a hedge over other buyers.

As soon as the renovations are completed we are refinancing them if we want to hold them.

The refinancing will automatically get the money of the purchase and the cost of renovations out of the property to reimburse the investors plus interests.

For the lands/lots the same scenarios could be possible after the subdivisions are made.

The possibility to stay in the deal until the official selling of the prepared lots can also be possible for a higher return/profit.

Team

I’m a real estate agent and a mortgage broker in Quebec. I have access to a lot of pocket listing because of my colleagues and I can get financing easily when it comes to find something AAA.

We are doing businesses with an entrepreneur that is building houses since 1998.

He mandates all the professionals for preparing the lots (architect, surveyor, sewage expert, electrician, etc.). Obviously that’s the one we are using for renovating also.

We have an accountant and a tax expert onboard.

We are a team of three that are hungry to find deals. We can devote 100% of our time into new projects.

We have two good attorneys (notary) that work with us for backing all the legal documents of every deal.

Financials

The goal here is to have more people join our journey.

We usually put some money into every deal but that can be discussed if the investor wants a bigger return.

Backup plans

We buy on sale. Do you know Charlie Munger?

As stock investors we always buy a business at a margin of safety.

Same with real estate’s projects.

Buying with a margin of safety of 25-45% for a single-family home of its actual value, we understand that we always have room to exit without a lost.

Same for lands/lots. If the deal is no good, we don’t fudge numbers to “get” or buy something.

Every deal is sold with a real estate agent for better exposure and fast closing.

Example illustrated

Single-family home

This is an example of the type of transaction we make.

Selling for: 117 500$

Actual value: 142 000$

Purchase of offer: 90 000$

Cost of renovation including closing costs: 19 000$

ARC: 109 000$

ARV: 161 000$

Refinancing 80%: 128 800$

Money out of the deal minus the investor loan reimbursed = 19 800$

Equity still in the house: 32 200$

Other information

“How many houses/lots are we going to buy?”

Depending of the amount of money investors want to bring in we will adjust our strategy.

With more money invested we might aim for bigger lots/lands than just buying and holding single-family houses.

This is a brief resume of what we are looking for and how we can help each other.

If you know any investors that might interested by our proposition, please share this link to him/her.

Thank you so much BP community!!!!

Post: Wholesale in Quebec -- 0$ invested and 11K collected

Mathieu GagnonPosted
  • New to Real Estate
  • Cowansville
  • Posts 18
  • Votes 5

Investment Info:

Single-family residence wholesale investment in Longueuil.

Purchase price: $1
Cash invested: $1
Sale price: $11,498

Wholesale.
House listed for 200K.
Bid 206K because of multiple offers.

What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

No investment required.
Get paid without any risk.
You find, you sell, you're out.

How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

I managed to find it with a real estate friend.
This was a succession. The family wanted to sell it.
They received 6 offers at the same time.
We offer 6K more that what they were looking for.

How did you finance this deal?

We sat with people who wanted to renovate and flip

How did you add value to the deal?

By reassuring the buyers about the neighbourhood, and the upsides

What was the outcome?

They managed to buy it flip it and sell it with a profit of 30-40K.
We made a decent 10K without the risk.

Lessons learned? Challenges?

10K was greedy in this transaction for us to get comparing to the investor upside/risk.
In Quebec, Canada it is a gray area. Wholesale is technically prohibited if you are not a real estate agent.
Be aware.

Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Yes we worked with one REA.