Canadian Investment Advice and Financial News
If you have ever heard the phrase “A day late and a dollar short,” it applies to me. After spending six years looking forward to the day when I could burn my mortgage, my final lump sum payment was $1 short of paying off the $1,979 balance. So instead of being mortgage-free on Oct 31 […]
People need to realize that the behaviour in the real estate market in Canada in the past 10-12 years is not normal, nor sustainable. Housing, historically, has risen fairly close to the increases in real incomes (income adjusted for inflation) during 1950-2000. In the past decade real incomes have moved very little (if at all) […]
As this blog has quite a bit of content regarding the Smith Manoeuvre, I often get reader questions regarding how to start the Smith Manoeuvre, and when is a good time to start. I have answered the “how” in the past, but what about the “when”? What is the Smith Manoeuvre Before we get started, […]