Ben Le Fort is a Canadian personal finance blogger on Medium. Ben has quite an interesting riches to rags to riches story. Ben had a comfortable upbringing – until the financial crisis happened. With no savings, both his parents, who were successful real estate agents at the time, were forced to file for bankruptcy. Despite […]

Liz Enriquez is the founder of Ambitious Adulting, a website to help Canadian millennials understand personal finances so they can save more, earn more and reduce stress about money. As the name of her website suggests, Liz is quite ambitious herself. After paying off her university tuition at age 22, she saved over $50,000 and bought […]

  Adeola’s episode is the first in a new series of podcast shows on “Women in Real Estate.” In the coming weeks I’ll be interviewing successful female real estate investors like Adeola to help encourage and inspire more women to get into real estate. After experiencing a life altering layoff when she was a junior […]

With the new year upon us, it’s everyone’s favourite time: New Year’s Resolution time! Beside getting in better shape, improving our money situation is another popular goal that we set for ourselves. Unfortunately, this is often easier said than done. Using fitness again as an example, many of us sign up for the gym in […]

I’m super excited to be sharing the story of Kay. Kay reached out to me via email after reading my CBC article. She was inspired to follow in my footsteps and burning her mortgage, too (and in Seattle, one of the America’s most expensive places to buy a home, no less). Kay’s story is very […]

Can you believe 2014 is already coming to a close? It seems like this year was over in the blink of an eye. 2014 has been a busy year to say the least. I landed a lot of well-paying freelance writing gigs, including perhaps my highest-profile job at Tangerine. I also dealt with the headache […]

On August 28th, 2014 I passed a major milestone on my way to mortgage freedom. After a lump sum payment of $8,000, I can now proudly say I only have five digits of debt to my name. This lump sum payment brought my mortgage balance from $104,826.10 down to only $96,826.10. It’s hard to imagine […]