BG Wealth Group

3 Ways to Scale Your Wealth Now

Actionable tips from our Q3 Open Investors Mastermind

At this quarter’s Investor’s Mastermind, we discussed practical, results-oriented solutions for taking your investing game to the next level. These insights tap into our core business model, which offers real estate investment partnerships to investors seeking to build generational wealth.

Here are 3 ways you can level-up your real estate investment strategy, taken from our event:

Capitalize on timing

There’s an urgent call to capitalize on the current real estate market dynamics, especially for our BG Investment Partners. Across North America, rental inventory is dwindling due to many factors, such as housing affordability challenges, fluctuating interest rates, and more people than ever looking to buy a home. This situation presents a golden opportunity for our unique business model to survive and thrive even in markets affected by economic downturns.

Automate your financial management

Another key aspect that emerged from our discussions is the need for automation in a wealth-scaling journey. This principle is not limited to your service provider; it also applies to your own systems. Here at BG Wealth Group, we are implementing several tools including an Investors Portal to ensure our Investment Partners can get a 360-degree view of their portfolio with us. For yourself, you can start simply by programming your calendar to send you reminder emails for checking your accounts to automating your bill payments to using a calendar-automation tool to schedule check-in meetings with your other finance and investment contacts.

Plan for the long-term

Lastly, the significance of long-term planning in growing wealth cannot be underestimated. Scaling your wealth effectively demands a well-crafted roadmap that, ideally, spans as many of your remaining years as possible. It begins with an intimate knowledge of your financial standing, including available capital and clear financial goals and then projects your earnings over that number of years. We’re thrilled to introduce our new BG Legacy Planner, a powerful calculating resource that allows you to project your returns for up to 25 years. While it’s scheduled to launch on our website in 2024, it is currently being utilized in meetings to assist Investment Partners.

Watch the session

Even more information is packed into our Quarterly Investor Masterminds, where we showcase new products, special guests, and partnership opportunities directly to you! If you missed our most recent session last week, you can still access the session by watching it in full here.

To book a Legacy Planning Session, email Jennifer@BGWealthGroup.com.

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950-956 2nd Ave. Street East, Owen Sound, ON

Owen Sound

261-281 9th Street East, Owen Sound, ON

Value
Purchase Price
$1,055,000
Rents upon acquisition
$127,000
Fully rented
$235,290
Fully rented Building Value
$2,256,000
5-year ROI annualized
15.99%

The Story
261-281 9th Street East is a mixed-use (commercial/residential) building located in the heart of the downtown River District of Owen Sound. The building consists of 9 residential units (7-1 bedrooms, 1-2 bedroom & 1 studio apartment) and six commercial units. BG Wealth Properties purchased the building in March 2019 for $1,055,000 and immediately started employing its value-add model by renovating units and attracting high-quality tenants at attractive rental rates.

At the time of acquisition, one-bedroom residential units were renting anywhere from $550-$800 per month, and the two-bedroom unit was renting for $700/month. Through our value-add program, BG dramatically improved the condition of these units while successfully increasing rents on one-bedroom units to $1,300 per month, and $1,400 per month for the two-bedroom unit.

Similarly, commercial tenants were paying anywhere from $8.50-$10.00 per square foot at the time of acquisition (inclusive of taxes, maintenance, and insurance). Within the first 6 months, BG successfully started renovating commercial units and had new tenants sign long term leases at an average rate of $14.00 per square foot + $4.00/foot TMI (taxes, maintenance, and insurance) – for a total average rate of $18.00 per square foot.

Fully rented, the building carries a value of $2.2 Million based on rents we have achieved through our value-add business model.

This property still has more upside potential.

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Owen Sound

950-956 2nd Ave. Street East, Owen Sound, ON

Value
Purchase Price
$555,000
Rents upon acquisition
$28,800
Fully rented
$187,692
Fully rented Building Value
$1,600,000
5-year ROI annualized
17.38%

The Story
950-956 2nd Avenue East is a mixed-use (commercial/residential) building located in the heart of downtown’s River District of Owen Sound. The building consists of 6 residential units (2-2 bedrooms, 3-1 bedroom & 1 studio apartment) and two commercial units. BG Wealth Properties purchased the building in March 2019 for $555,000. The five upstairs vacant residential units were gutted with no tenants, while the downstairs had a high-end spa and a furniture store as commercial tenants.

In March 2021, BG Wealth Group partnered with an institutional lender and secured funding to renovate all residential units. In addition, given the shortage of high-end vacation rentals in the City of Owen Sound, BG has converted all six units to short-term vacation rentals, which will launch at the end of 2021.

In June 2021, BGWP attracted an up-and-coming Flame ‘N Bricks pizzeria franchise located in the commercial space beside the high-end spa. The culmination of high-end vacation rentals on the upper level, a spa and a pizzeria on the lower level will make this building one of the most attractive buildings in the downtown River District.

BG received a post-renovation appraisal of $1.3 Million on the building – more than 2X the original purchase price. Fully rented, the building carries a value of $1.6 Million based on typical short-term rental rates of the area.