Hi, I’m Andrew Cameron.
Welcome to Your Landlord Coach.co.
Are you someone who:
- Wants to get started in Real Estate, but are uncertain how?
- Owns a few units already, but feel overwhelmed and need help?
- Self-manages your units, and know you can serve your tenants better, but need some guidance?
- Invests in a smaller community and need help from someone who understands what this means?
- Feels isolated as a real estate investor and want to join a community?
- Wants help systemizing your business so you can grow to the next level?
- Needs some coaching and guidance to help you reach your financial goals and take that trip to Hawaii?
If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, Your Landlord Coach.co is the place for you. I will help you structure your Real Estate Business to allow you the time and money to spend with your family, playing golf, painting, going back to school, quitting your full-time job, or whatever it is that puts excitement back in to your life.
Why Your Landlord Coach.co?
I started my Real Estate career in 2010, and in 7 years have built a portfolio from 0 to over 150 units. The thing is, I did this in two small towns in Nova Scotia, not in Toronto, not in San Fransisco, not in Calgary, not in Houston. If I did it here you can do it where you live too; and I can help.
Who is Your Landlord Coach.co?
I grew up in Amherst, NS, and I graduated from University in 2003. I bought my first real estate investment book in 2004. I bought my second, third, fourth and fifth real estate investment books in 2005. I still have all these books sitting on my shelf now. I read, re-read, and re-read these books many times thinking I was getting ready to become a real estate investor. I re-created spreadsheets that were in these books, I printed off all the checklists. I was ready, or so I thought. I never moved, I never bought anything, I just waited.
In 2006, my now-wife and I moved to Japan to teach English, putting my real estate investment career on hold.
Here is us walking down the Shukugawa River under the Cherry Blossoms.
We were going to stay for one year and that was it. One year, and lots of travelling (check out our travel blog here) went by too quickly. We signed up for another year. That year went by too quickly, then we realized if we stayed for another year and a half we could pay off our student loans. In August 2009 we moved back to complete our teaching degrees, and get more student loans. In 2010 my Dad approached me about starting our Real Estate company. It was initially going to be a one-off project, that quickly grew into a large company once I got the real estate bug.
Back in 2004/2005, when I read, and re-read my books on real estate investing I was attracted to the long-term wealth building, the ‘passive’ nature of the cash-flow and the relative security of investing in real estate. These were all the financial benefits that Real Estate provides. I didn’t truly understand the personal benefits until much later.
My Personal Benefits:
This is my wife Courtney, my daughter, Isabel, and our two dogs, Ellie and Luna. (They are half NS Duck Toller, and half Golden Retriever. Ellie is on the right, Luna is on the left.) Real Estate has given me the freedom to put my family first, and let me spend my time and focus with them. If Isabel’s sick I can reschedule my day to take care of her, if we want to sneak away for a weekend I can clear out my Friday afternoon and leave early. Or If I feel like taking the dogs for a walk in the afternoon, I can.
These personal benefits are what kept me going during the difficult times – fixing up a damaged apartment because I rented to an Awful tenant, staring at too many vacancies and wondering how I am going to fill them, trying to get heat working in the middle of January and I just couldn’t do. Those times I needed something else to keep me going. The money wasn’t what kept me going, it was the freedom and personal benefits that kept me going.
What next?
Check out our Start Here Page to start building your real estate success.