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    Replace Your Salary with Real Estate
    Replace Your Salary with Real Estate
    Replace Your Salary with Real Estate
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    Replace Your Salary with Real Estate

    By Donny Mangos

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    Replace Your Salary with Real Estate is not a book about real estate. It's a practical guide to creating financial independence and enjoying the freedom that comes with that. It just so happens to have a few sections dedicated to using real estate — the ultimate investing tool. If you find you're constantly on a hamster wheel, never getting ahead, or trapped in a job you aren't passionate about, you need to harness the lessons in this book.

    As a successful real estate investor and Realtor for over seventeen years, Donny has systemized the art of using real estate investments to generate a salary-replacement income using his signature Replace Method.

    In this book, you'll gain:

    • Awareness of your current finances
    • Understanding of taxes, RRSPs and RESPs and how they work for and against you
    • Tools to figure out how to use your money (not your time) to create a financial plan strong enough to replace your salary in the near future

    You may or may not want to quit your job. Either is fine. But when you position yourself to choose, that's freedom. Replace Your Salary with Real Estate will prepare you to replace your salary, and that's what truly matters.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrammar Factory Publishing
    Release dateMar 12, 2023
    ISBN9781998756285
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    Donny Mangos

    DONNY MANGOS is an experienced Realtor and investor who has developed a systematic approach to generating wealth for himself and his clients in the Canadian real estate industry. While he has received recognition from his brokerages, Donny’s achievements go beyond mere sales accolades to include impressive personal financial successes, such as replacing his income through real estate ventures. Donny’s not a suit-and-tie type of guy. When he’s not busy negotiating killer deals, he’s spinning epic tales and dropping dad jokes that are so cheesy they’ll make you cringe and chuckle at the same time. Donny graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He currently lives in his hometown of Toronto with his wife and two children.

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      Replace Your Salary with Real Estate - Donny Mangos

      PART ONE:

      THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS

      1

      THE BASICS OF INVESTING

      There are two major ways you can make money in our world. You can work for it (where you trade your time for someone else’s money), or you can have your money make you more money. The second way is commonly referred to as investing.

      One of my favourite quotes is from J.L. Collins, who wrote in The Simple Path to Wealth: Money can buy many things, but nothing more valuable than your freedom. That’s what this entire process is about. It’s not about the money; it’s about the freedom you’ll discover when you conquer the money goal – freedom of time, money and relationships.

      When you have the income part sorted, the mind works on the things that energize and excite you. That’s what we’re after.

      Where do we start? In a kind of abstract way, the path to wealth begins with security and control. It would help if you felt safe first before you could truly build. Only when we have removed the risk we associate with our incomes can we see growth from within. We intuitively know that what we think is safe money (job income) is rarely safe. It’s a false security, which is why most of us don’t achieve wealth; we aren’t free to take chances because we don’t believe that our jobs will solve our future money goals. It took me a while to realize this.

      I’m a regular guy with a family and modest education. I’m the classic son of immigrant parents who wasn’t handed a golden spoon. I grew up in the lower middle class, in a loving family that taught me lessons in appreciating the value of a dollar. I was the only one in my family to graduate from university. Yet, I’d probably score lower on an IQ test than most.

      The real difference between most others and myself is simple: I’m willing to take chances – calculated risks, to be fair. I love the world of investing. I consider choices from the why and why not perspectives just like other prudent people. I just don’t overthink the why not for too long. If the why not isn’t obvious, and many of the why reasons are, I react. I’ve seen many people miss opportunities by outsmarting themselves. I imagine you’ve heard of paralysis by analysis? That’s exactly what this means. They miss their chance because they look for reasons why they shouldn’t do something great. Ultimately, they’ll convince themselves that it wasn’t meant to be. It’s such an awful way of looking at things. It’s a way to excuse themselves from any accountability. I feel as though this is one stop away from the victim mentality. In the end, these people sit and complain about everything and end up no further ahead in life than they are today.

      That’s not you. That’s not us. Not any more. That was who I was at one point, and it may have been you, too. That version of us is gone.

      Early in my career, I decided to build a moat around my future, and nobody would take it from me. Once I had my plan for financial control, I could find true independence. I wouldn’t allow myself to be trapped in a job with a paycheque. I just needed to figure out how to do that.

      I had enough knowledge to know that investing was the way to achieve this goal. I started early, but remember that it’s always better late than never. I just had to learn what to invest in. When I finally found that answer, my decision to follow that path brought me to where I am today, along with everything good in my life.

      Your first goal is to use your salary to get enough cash to put to work through investing. The excitement lies in investing, not earning more from a job. A bonus or a pay raise is great, but only if you can turn that into more cash that you can invest.

      WHY INVEST?

      Stop me if this sounds familiar:

      You went to school to get into the workforce with a high-paying job, which may or may not have happened. Maybe you bought your first place. It was entry-level, and it was fine. The mortgage was your first large debt, but you made it work. Next, you got a promotion and a pay raise. Congrats! Maybe you coupled up and found the one. You needed more space and have a higher household income now, so you traded up. Sold the small home and bought a larger family home. You took on a larger mortgage. Another promotion! Maybe you will move again; maybe your family will expand. Maybe you hate your neighbour, or maybe you want a newer and larger home with a private office for your work-from-home space. During COVID, we needed to find ways to be happy at home, right? Along the journey, you’ve tacked on a new car or two and a gym membership. You bought the big screen TV and the upgraded laptop model.

      As your pay level increased, so did your expenses. Mo’ money, mo’ problems. And so you’re stuck in a world where you have to earn every week to pay your bills and keep the lifestyle that you now expect for yourself.

      Are you investing? With whatever is left, sure. You’ve tossed some remaining money into a retirement account or an education fund for the kids.

      I hate to tell you: you’re living paycheque to paycheque. In Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad world, he makes it very clear that you’re in the Rat Race. You’re running around in literal circles, never getting any further, never achieving more, and living beneath your potential. You are trading your time on earth for money.

      Clearly, I’m painting a pretty dire picture, and of course, in no way am I suggesting you’re stuck in this mud. I hope you’re further ahead than the person described above! We’ve been misled and misguided over the years into believing that we’ll be fine financially by doing what everyone else is. We won’t – it’s 100% crap. The way out is to make money work for you. The way out is to invest.

      THE STORY THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

      Back when I had that nine-to-five, I was just like everyone else. I was working on a tech team for a national insurance company. I had the same weekday routine: wake up early enough to shower, brush my teeth, get dressed and get ready for the day. I would take the same route to work every morning and follow the same pattern. I looked forward to little else than that first coffee at the office each morning. Perhaps you can relate.

      My path took me past the same coffee shop on the way to the building elevator. I’d grab a coffee, smash that elevator button marked 14, and wait for the closing doors to reopen on my floor. When those doors did open, I would walk past a department on the way to my

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