Best Aurélien Bonin Podcasts (2024)

I use daily affirmations to enlarge my horizon I use daily affirmations to influence my mood and my mindset I put myself in a frame of mind that is positive, welcomes difficulties as opportunities to grow, learn and become a better business man I frame the difficult projects I am dealing with in terms of I will overcome/succeed to remove the doubts…

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Best advice 4:02

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received: | from a book, buy in job growth area | be customer centered in biz life is not a dress rehearsal: make sure you have fun along the way | given: take an hour to answer triggering messages |By The Mindful Investor

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Ideal Partner 3:40

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their relationship with money: chill, not anxious about it waits for checkins, doesn't reach out all the time, sticks to timeline of updates provided busy professional who has good insights when asked and a good business acumen similar values: not just about money but also people, communities, giving back…

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How to introduce yourself 3:09

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Not many people know what a real estate investor is Part I like least is landlord aspect so I don't discuss it I enjoy finding deals, negotiating, coming up with a business plan I don't really take investors' money so I don't try to talk about what I do I am a little more excited now to talk about what I do since it has to do with development and a…

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Coaching 1 - Mindset shift 4:01

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The biggest mindset shift for me was moving away from secure government job to real estate investing I remember wanting to work as a civil servant for the French government, ideally at university level, job security, vacations and pay cut when I purchased my first property, took some mindset shift. I educated myself but also spent some time in pray…

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Hiring a contrator 3:33

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start off small with a simple repair increase to bigger jobs get a contract before doing larger jobs don't micro manageBy The Mindful Investor

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Feeling overwhelmed 3:47

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I get that feeling sometimes, have a lot of irons in the fire break it down! Technique I used to use as a teacher with my students make a list and assign importance numbers and look at what absolutely needs to get done otherwise make sure the important stuff doesn't get forgotten because of the whirlwind, see The Four Disciplines of Execution by by…

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Delegating 3:58

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Discussion about hiring a VA: create list of tasks, explained through videos and get VA to do the tasks Will allow you to scale and focus on the important tasks, decisions making, you delegate the actual work so you can focus on the business itself, working on and not in the business VA: stay at home parent, hired for several hours a week or from a…

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Mindset: limiting beliefs 3:54

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Limiting beliefs - price of real estate I would look at | it takes the same amount of effort: underwriting, due diligence, capital raise: you can bring on partners for the raise | legal fees are similar | easier to manage: elect a tenant superintendant, bring in PM company, 1 roof, 1 boiler, 1 parking lot to plow | How do you push through: affirmat…

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Advice for younger self 2:33

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Overall content with where I am at and what I have done with my life so far Act faster on some deals Start with commercial earlier Start meditation earlier to help sharpen my focus Travel moreBy The Mindful Investor

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Work Life Balance 4:24

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relationship to the phone: many tools, work: text contractors and email property owners, entertainment, social media and time consuming | system, there are no true emergency where I can do something, the person needed is the contractor and worst case scenario the fire marshal or an ambulance | | I am available between 2-5pm Mo-Th for non emergencie…

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Episode 24 - Joseph Passa, Windsor architect creating vertical forests 25:52

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In this last interview we dive into the portfolio of a local architect - local to South Wester Ontario, Joseph Passa, who work on grass roofs and vertical forests. Nature and construction!By The Mindful Investor

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Problem solving 3:17

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intro = at the core of any business endeavour, any role with responsibilities: you solve problems. It is no different with real estate you buy problems, problem properties in CRE and residential: vacancy, under market rents and your business plan describes how you will be fixing them | I was reprimanding my contractor recently for using the word ni…

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Alignment 3:11

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Glen's guest's idea of a project based on Glen's performance to get the family's buy-in aspiration of leading a life of service: service to the tenants, to the investors... work between 9-5 except emergency: put systems in place, some tenants are just boredBy The Mindful Investor

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2 ways to become a full time RE Investor 4:01

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Episode 23 - Deren Huang 24:26

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100 unit multifamily portfolio and now industrial in Tulsa, OK.By The Mindful Investor

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Vision and values 5:33

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affordable housing human: care about people and what they go through respect rules forthcoming when late, we can come up with arrangement empower the people that work with me challenge of affordable and sustainable housing in Canadian climate that I wish to take on and contribute toBy The Mindful Investor

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Turnover 3:58

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opportunity to improve the property and bring it to market have enough savings so you don't run out of cashflow with 10-15% vacancy outrun the competition time to schedule viewings: I have systems in place but stay involved in screening: potential property to buy and know what questions to ask when screening a tenant I like to ask tenants what they…

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Networking 5:14

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this famous saying: "Your network is your networth" but not only from a materialistic perspective: if you have deals and connections you can find investors the more connections you have the more chances you have to find solutions to your problems you can use social media: LinkedIn, Facebook, meetups, covid is tough but it makes it eeasier to connec…

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Episode 22 - Arti Shah: Self Storage, BDE, Big Box Conversion, Family Office 21:01

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Recessionproof your porftolio 3:27

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invest in a province or state with no rent control to hedge against inflation low income housing like MHPs is a safe way to invest multifamily and industrial faired well during covid in retail: make it covid/Amazon proof by focusing on neighbourhood servicesBy The Mindful Investor

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Benefits of a podcast 4:26

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Routines 3:32

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Atomic habits: add habits to each other or stack them: swim, meditate for 30 min, listen to CRE podcast on the way back and forth system with accountability buddy: track 3 things, 1 habit 30 lengths at the pool, 1 professional task and 1 personal task gratitude list translate goal into daily habitsBy The Mindful Investor

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Episode 21 - Brett Nodwell - Residential Development in Ontario 36:00

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Dealing with failure 4:00

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Growing up in France you would be humiliated for making mistakes in entrepreneurship, failures, mistakes are the most valuable lessons when you make mistakes: take full responsibility, full ownership like suggested in the book Extreme Ownership by Jocko WillinkBy The Mindful Investor

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Most influential book 6:43

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Real Estate Investing in Canada by Don Campbell published in 2009, found it in the office at work it explained job growth population growth and the 4 seasons of the real estate cycle: recovery, expansion, hyper supply, and recession that's how I decided to investBy The Mindful Investor

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Tenant relationships 4:23

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Dan Sullivan "Who not How" I started delegating the direct interaction to be in charge of my time so I get the messages in the afternoon so I can work uninterrupted in the mornings I am still the one calling the shots and handling the contractors so that I know what's going on Tenant are the front row consumers and the clients that need to be looke…

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Episode 20 - Rinku Patel and commercial real estate investing 34:38

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Inflation and real estate 3:47

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Consumer Price Index | hedges against inflation: gold, real estate | | equity in a home increase as price of asset increases | multifamily: shorter leases ie possibility to increase rents | triple net property: increases are passed on to the tenant | Oct 20: 18 year high in Canada at 4.4% | inflation - the rate at which consumer prices rise | corre…

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Investing in compressed cap rates environments 4:59

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Multifamily & Industrial | | information asymmetry to find deals | Increase in NOI will go way further | | | Expand one's horizon: CRE and other asset classes, created a group on fb and on meet up where the focus is on commercial, we have people specializing in all asset types and we talk business and are even thinking of investing together | | |…

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Getting paid in real estate 5:09

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Me: real estate portfolio, get paid from rent collection Haven't monetized anything else: coaching, podcast, not really advertised but more present online so people know what I am doing in case real estate is of interest to them Starting to let people in on my deals, syndication: starting small, weekly call with a friend who had the same mentor: ho…

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Episode 19 - Ali Nazarian and Land Development in Canada 29:33

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Value add strategies 2:15

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BRRR buy renovate rent refinance repeat buy with high vacancy buy with below market rents buy from a seller who didn't maintain the properties well and rehab buy on a large lot and expand or redevelop buy a large space and subdivide it into microunitsBy The Mindful Investor

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Renting out part of your home 2:12

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house hacking to get started in real estate investing: you buy a house and rent out bedrooms in that house so others pay down your mortgage and you live free, building equity and with a property that potentially appreciates in value bought a house with basement unit but we now use it for family when they come to visit after bad experiences: weed de…

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Owning or renting your primary residence? 2:38

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lots of advantages to owning: you build up equity through mortgage pay down and appreciation in Ontario, can refinancing or take a heloc and use the funds to invest, can sell tax fee personally, if I didn't have a family I may rent so I don't have all the upkeep to do or live in a condo where everything is taken care of for you so I can focus on my…

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Episode 18 - Carina Guzmán & Land Development In Ontario 46:44

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With Carina we dive into land development: buying, rezoning to best and highest use and selling.By The Mindful Investor

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Overcoming Obstacles 5:25

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ocean of free and great resources out there: books, podcast, lots of thought leaders make knowledge available for free limiting beliefs: think big, delegate, partner up instead of thinking small, proverb: alone we go faster, together we go further lack of knowledge is a big hurdle but with democratization of knowledge it is becoming easier discipli…

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Due Diligence 3:51

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be diligent, download an exhaustive DD checklist online and read all you need to read on the matter, CRE can be demanding with lease agreements but be thorough and look at the small print | | what to look for = rent bumps, who pays for what, when is it renewing which will determine financing | get quotes from reputable contractors on the structural…

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Managing Emotions 3:33

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Respond versus reacting - wait before answering, moved to email system that allows schedule send Be a serving leader Never blame, refrain from using pronoun "you", ever Opposite of negative thought is complete ownershipBy The Mindful Investor

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Episode 17 - Darcy Marler and Land Development 41:19

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Real estate developer, author and mentor, Darcy Marler tells us about the next big thing in Canada: land development.By The Mindful Investor

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Zero Down 3:52

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Second mortgage, recommendation to not approach with this right away you would lose credibility otherwise, I wouldn't look down on people who get second mortgages, better to invest some money Becomes easier the more you do it and invest either in a specific area or gain experience investing in an asset class "Creative financing", where numbers meet…

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Legacy 2:37

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moving forward with the end in mind: proper set up by consulting with lawyer and accountant what will my legacy be, how do I want to be remembered a newspaper article talking about me in the third person as an exercise to start with the end in mindBy The Mindful Investor

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Focus 3:34

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entrepreneurs tend to have lots of ideas and can be scattered a good entrepreneur is not someone who has a great idea but someone who executes well or surrounds him or herself with a team to execute well tools to stay focused: Focusmate Daily accountability coach Accountability partners for different projects: sponsor / MHP development / business g…

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Episode 16 - Patrick Kennedy And Developing Micro-Units in California 40:19

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What to do with $10k, $50k, $100k, $1M 4:41

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$10k invest in your education/training, take a course or hire a mentor, somebody who has walked the walk or is still walking it and sharpen your skills, network and find partners. More creative and more self-reliant: live off the $10k and work full time on your skills: look at deals in the morning, listen to podcast in the afternoon, read books at …

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Getting Started 3:01

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2 scenarios 1. enough for a downpayment - research a market where the numbers make sense with job and population growth - BRRR strategy: purchase a problem/value-add, refi and repeat to slowly grow a portfolio 2. not enough for a downpayment - sharpen your skills: listen to podcasts, look at deals daily, make connections with real estate agents so …

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