Beyond the Desk: Living with Intention
Where Should I Invest? Real Estate Investing in Canada
Early lessons from bidding, contractors and 2008 parallels
Amy explains being overcharged by contractors, bidding wars, and how 2008 UK market lessons shaped later caution.
We talk about how she navigated over-leveraging, burnout, and the pressure to do “what everyone else is doing,” and instead focused on building a business that supports her long-term vision, including spending part of the year living in Spain.
What You’ll Learn:
- How Amy bought her first home at 19 and continued building after moving to Canada
- What she learned from scaling too fast and the cost of over-leveraging
- The importance of defining your own success, especially when leaving corporate
- How BRRRRs, conversions, flips, and even Airbnb shaped her investment strategy
- Why property management experience changed her perspective as an owner
- What lifestyle-aligned investing looks like and how it’s fueling her plan to live part-time in Spain
- The realities of working with your partner and building businesses together
- How she’s helping other investors by sharing what really works (and what doesn’t)
Amy Brooke is a CPA and real estate investor who began her journey at 19 in the UK and has since built a thriving multifamily portfolio across Ontario with her husband, Nigel. Together, they’ve explored a wide range of investment strategies from BRRRRs and flips to short-term rentals, industrial conversions, and ground-up development. After leaving behind her corporate finance career, Amy leaned fully into real estate and entrepreneurship, co-founding a growing property management company and building a business that aligns with her lifestyle.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-brooke-cpa-cma-cgma-acma-a6bb6822/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amybrooke_life/
EMail – amy@spsinvestments.caThis episode has been brought to you in part by:
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