OREIO

Last night, I popped my OREIO cherry.

OREIO stands for Ottawa Real Estate Investors Organization. It's a group that meets about once a month on the second Monday of the month. They usually have guest speakers to talk about a variety of subjects relating to real estate. It's a great place to learn, and it's a great place to build up a good little network.

Last night was a freebie. I got to see first hand what a membership would be like in OREIO. It was a roundtable discussion about real estate from many different perspectives. Each session of the roundtable offered a unique insight into one aspect of real estate. Granted, at my level of real estate investment, some of the information was not relevant. I'm not quite prepared to jump into multi-unit buildings just yet. I like the idea of managing single family homes.

I know this post is not about taxes, but the main focus of the blog was originally supposed to be about real estate and sharing ideas and knowledge about real estate. I think real estate is more interesting for people, and it may prove to be a better investment given the economic circumstances that we are currently dealing with, and have to deal with in the near future.

The group meetings offer a new perspective for me. It's a chance for me to gain valuable insights into the world of real estate, and I will likely be able to share my knowledge via this blog. It's a new source of knowledge for me that will benefit anyone that needs information about properties for personal use or for properties for investment purposes. I no longer have to use my own experiences, but the experiences of others to ensure that actions are done with due diligence.

This post has been very vague in terms of offering anything new. I plan on sharing in the next couple of days some of the various knowledge that I received. It's a good excuse for more posts, and it also gets my mind off of taxes a little bit. If I get stuck, I'll put up a tax-related post, but I'd like to avoid that if possible.