Alain Guillot

Life, Leadership, and Money Matters

Category: Real Estate

  • Four Things To Check When Buying A House

    Four Things To Check When Buying A House

    Most people make their biggest purchase in their life when they purchase a home – and there are lots of things to consider. Making sure you have paid all the fees and costs involved in choosing a house/flat to make a home. Your Mortgage & Other Costs The biggest part of the cost of a…

  • How To Be The Landlord That Everyone Wants

    How To Be The Landlord That Everyone Wants

    Being a landlord does not have to be problematic. In fact, when your rental properties are managed efficiently and effectively, being a landlord can be a significant source of revenue. However, landlords often have a bad reputation, for being greedy, lazy, and uncaring. Make sure you are not one of them and have a queue…

  • I am a landlord, I am happy my tenant was able to pay the rent

    I am a landlord, I am happy my tenant was able to pay the rent

    I am a landlord and I am so happy I survived Covid. I was afraid that my tenant was not going to pay the rent, I would be stuck paying municipal taxes, insurance, condos fees, school taxes, maintenance, and the mortgage without having any revenue from my property to pay for all those expenses. Tenants…

  • Rents are going up. Don’t blame the landlord, blame the city

    Rents are going up. Don’t blame the landlord, blame the city

    The real estate market, like most markets, works on supply and demand. If there is more demand than supply, prices go up; if there is more supply than demand, prices go down. There is no legislation that can change the laws of economics, the law of supply and demand. There is no global conspiracy of…

  • Tips for Being the Best Airbnb Host

    Tips for Being the Best Airbnb Host

    If you are looking for ways to make money with your home or other property that you have, then you have a number of possibilities. You could rent it out as a whole, or rent out a spare room that you have, using a site like Airbnb. This is growing and growing in popularity, and…

  • A Few Fundamentals Tenant Look for in a Rental Home

    A Few Fundamentals Tenant Look for in a Rental Home

    The task of renting out a home is not always easy. If you’re going to find a tenant quickly and efficiently, you want to make sure that you’re satisfying their needs and offering them what they need most. Getting that right and making sure that the fundamentals in place will have a big influence on…