Unlock Your Wealth Potential with Anita Bongers-Lewis: How to Leverage Your Properties & Scale Faster!

Today I have Anita on the podcast discussing the importance of leveraging your properties and scaling fast!
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About the podcast:
Alexandra Tejeda (@teamtoronto) has been a realtor now for just over a year and focuses more on investors. She is currently looking to get her first investment property as well and is passionate about real estate investing. However, she recognized a gap in the market. She is always listening to podcasts and realized that most of the people being interviewed were men - which is fine but she just wanted to promote a different perspective. Alexandra prides herself on learning daily and has really enjoyed interviewing these seasoned female investors in and around the GTA! This podcast is for both new or seasoned investors and the goal is to create a positive, powerful and female empowered investing group!

About the Guest:
Anita did not start out in real estate as a Realtor, but as an investor. Looking to see her hard earned money work harder for her and to create a better road to financial freedom she reseated real estate as an investment strategy. It didn’t take long as she jumped in with both feet she, and her husband Kris, worked hard to purchase five rental homes in their first year while also having their first child. Anita was hooked.
While Anita has continued to grow and reposition her real estate holdings over the years, even winning a Canadian Real Estate Investor (CREW) award for her work. Her success here has given her a passion to help many others to do the same. Knowing what real estate can provide for others, Anita left her successful career as a chiropractor to become a Realtor.


In this episode we discuss:


00:39 Anitas intro
1:08 Anita’s investing journey - 5 properties in 1 year!
2:45 Would you recommend a condo?
3:27 Realities of condo investments
4:22 Anita’s experience with precons and scaling her portfolio
5:02 Why Oshawa & The Durham Region 
6:30 How Anita scaled to 5 properties in 1 year through house hacking 
9:09 Student rentals
10:40 Refinancing student rentals & the importance of quality finishes
11:45 Duplex conversions and finding the right property & having the right team
14:09 Anita’s favourite strategies
15:55 The importance of being flexible with your investment strategies 
16:42 The importance of long term buy and hold
17:03 Doing your own property management
17:47 Delegating tasks and understanding the importance of your time
18:34 Having a good team & respecting your contractors
19:42 Anita’s team and who they service 
21:46 Do you recommend specific strategies your clients?
23:20 Systems in place for their investor clients
24:01 Future goals
24:47 Diversifying your income
25:15 What would you recommend to a new investor?
 28:20 Anita’s socials

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