When I was hunting for my first home more than 10 years ago, I didn’t know exactly what features will suit my needs best. I flip flopped between buying a condo and a house, and between a couple of suburbs around the Great Toronto Area (GTA) a few times. In the end, I settled Read More …
Author: Leo T. Ly
Lessons From A Young Entrepreneur
When I was about 10 years old, I immigrated from Vietnam to Canada. It’s been more than 28 years since I came to Canada. I don’t have a lot of memories of my childhood back in Vietnam. Somehow, there seems to be one particular piece of memory that I often recollect from time to Read More …
26 Must Have Blogging Skills
It’s been about six months since I started blogging. When I first started, I was just writing casually about everyday personal finance topics that came across my mind. I was just using my blog as an outlet for me to express my thoughts and as a tool to keep myself accountable for my financial Read More …
26 Money Mistakes To Avoid
Money. It’s a medium of exchange. We use it in every transaction involving the purchase of goods and services. Our lives revolve around money. Our personal wealth is measured by how much money we have. Every day, we wake up and go to work because the majority of us needed the income from our Read More …
A Beginner’s Guide To Owning Rental Properties
For the past few years, I’ve been a landlord of a few rental properties from a high-rise condo unit to a low-rise pre-construction home to a fixer upper resale home. However, I’ve never owned a multi-residential building before – that’s a totally different beast (I’ll love to have enough money to own it some Read More …
Showing Your Appreciation For Mom On Mother’s Day
This year, Mother’s Day is on Sunday, May 13. If you haven’t marked your calendar or planned anything with your mom on Mother’s Day yet, it’s time to put a reminder on your phone’s calendar. Better yet, give her a call and book something now. Every year, I’d try to take my mom out Read More …
The Benefits Of Investing With A Partner
When I first got the idea of penning this post, I was so tempted to headline it, “Friends With Benefits.” After conducting a little research at Google with the exact same search terms, I decided that I didn’t want my post to be appearing in the same search result as the ones that I Read More …
Raising Financially Responsible Kids
After becoming a parent about six years ago, I started to ask myself a simple question, “how do I raise my kids to be financially responsible individuals?” In general, I know that it’s important to be a nurturing and supportive parent to our kids. Providing them with the best environment that we could possibly Read More …
How I Saved An Extra $200,000 By Increasing My Debt
After reading the title of this post, you must be wondering, “What’s going on? Did Leo’s blog get hacked or what was he smoking before he wrote this post?” No, my blog did not get hacked nor was I smoking anything (I am not a smoker). What I wanted to say is that I Read More …
Financial Literacy For Canadians
Recently, the Ontario Education Minister, Mitzie Hunter announced that the ministry of education will start to roll out a pilot financial literacy project for 28 high schools in Ontario. This project aimed to teach our grade 10 students about money and to provide them with more financial literacy. When I read the article, I Read More …