Unlocking Success Fast: Understanding Your 'Why' as a Real Estate Investor"

Today I have Emily on the podcast! She is a well known real estate investor and shares her experiences regarding scaling fast and why she got into real estate investing in the first place!

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About the podcast:

Alexandra Tejeda (@teamtoronto) is a Realtor in Toronto and loves guiding investors and first time home buyers though the process of building wealth, she looks at all go her clients as 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:

Emily is a real estate investor based in Toronto, and has focused on the Hamilton and Niagara markets doing BRRRR projects. She is also a mom of two busy kids, and works full time in Human Resources as a Project Manager. She loves keeping busy and always needs a project to work on! Her super supportive husband is her biggest cheerleader and is always game for her 'crazy' ideas! Her 'why' for investing is to create time and financial freedom. For Emily, real estate investing serves as a means to support her goals, while at the same time is something she loves to do!

In this episode we discuss:

00:38 Emily’s intro

1:50 Getting into real estate investing as a 9-5er 

3:55 Exiting the 9-5 & Emily’s favourite parts of REI

4:32 Is REI really passive?

5:25 What tips do you have on sourcing deals?

6:45 Emily’s favourite market

7:52 Emily’s favourite strategy 

8:50 Starting with the BRRRR

9:37 Learning as a new investor

10:45 Emily’s current portfolio & scaling fast

11:40 Learning from each property

13:10 Adding value to investment properties 

14:05 Digging into Emily’s portfolio & duplex conversions

16:16 The JV strategy 

18:15 Buy & hold in this market 

19:29 Doing a detached ADU 

22:57 Scaling to more units

23:45 Trying out different properties 

25:13 Different teams for different strategies 

28:08 The importance of outsourcing 

28:48 Branding & marketing 

32:33 Emily’s future goals

34:00 Recommendations for new investors in this market 

35:52 Emily’s ‘why’

36:46 Emily’s socials

Socials (follow ya girl)

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LinkedIn @Alexandratejeda

Email alexandramtejeda@gmail.com

Follow Emily:

Insta @redglassesrei

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