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Ronan McMahon

The Best Places on Earth to Buy Real Estate in 2027

Ronan McMahon is a globally recognized real estate investor, bestselling author, and the founder of Real Estate Trend Alert (RETA), a premium club of international real estate investors. Originally from Ireland, Ronan has spent more than two decades traveling the world as an international real estate scout. Spending more than $1 million per year in travel and research, Ronan and his team identify compelling real estate opportunities, share exclusive deals with his members, and guide investors toward high-growth markets others often overlook.

Quentin D’ Souza

Precision Repositioning: A Five-Step Framework for Multi-Family Dominance
Beyond Dividends: Harvesting Alpha with Covered Call Overlays and the “Income-First”‘

Quentin D’Souza is a multiple award winning Real Estate Investor, and a trusted authority on investing in the Durham Region. He is an Ontario Certified Teacher and holds two university degrees, which includes a Master’s in Education. Quentin has appeared on local and national television and radio, interviewed in national publications, and has been a keynote speaker to large audiences or real estate investors.

Quentin owns a real estate portfolio in excess of $125 million dollars of assets under ownership across Canada and the US and transacted on 80+ properties since 2004.

Quentin is a proud member of the Society (SocietyToronto.com) and been accepted in to Tiger 21. His company, Appleridge Homes, uses the Buy, Fix, Refinance, and Rent strategy on long term rental properties in Ontario, Canada, as well as with joint venture partnerships to create win/win relationships. He also invests in rental properties in the USA.

Quentin is the author of “The Property Management Toolbox: A How-To Guide for Ontario Real Estate Investors and Landlords,” “The Filling Vacancies Toolbox: A Step-By-Step Guide for Ontario Real Estate Investors and Landlords for Renting Out Residential Real Estate,” “The Scaling Up Toolbox: A How to Guide for Real Estate Investors Who Don’t Have to Use Their Own Money to Buy Property,” “Finding Properties Toolbox: Buying Real Estate at a Discount” and “The Ultimate Wealth Strategy: Your Complete Guide to Buying, Fixing, Refinancing, and Renting Real Estate.”

He is also mentors real estate investors through the Durham Real Estate Investors Club.

Liza Rogers

Nomads, Nesters and Neighbours – How to Build Wealth & Community in Paradise

Turn your real estate portfolio into a passport for freedom, connection, and a life you don’t need a vacation from.

This conference is packed with smart strategies for generating income through real estate. Liza Rogers focuses on what comes next, how to turn that income into freedom, connection, and a life well lived.

An experienced community builder with over 30 years in global tourism, event production, and real estate investing, Liza brings a long-game perspective to wealth. As the Founder of WREN (Women’s Real Estate Network) and an Amazon best-selling author, she works with investors who have moved beyond “more deals” and are now asking better questions.

Liza is the creator of the “Buy a Village” movement, using co-ownership, co-living, and intentional community to transform cash-flowing assets into part-time homes, modern retirement options, and global villages in sunny destinations around the world. Her work bridges income strategy with lifestyle design, helping investors convert monthly revenue into mobility, belonging, and optionality.

If you’re building wealth through real estate and wondering how to design the next chapter, where income supports freedom instead of obligation, Liza’s session will expand what’s possible.

Dr. Andrew Taylor

Leverage and how to use it to create massive cashflow

Andrew has been investing in real estate since the early 1990s, building extensive experience across multiple asset classes including commercial office, retail, recreational properties, and large-scale development projects. Throughout his career, he has acquired, developed, rezoned, and stratified numerous properties, creating a diversified international portfolio spanning Portugal, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Canada, and the United States.

A key component of Andrew’s investing strategy has been the strategic use of leverage. Over the years, he has developed and refined several techniques that help investors maximize capital efficiency and increase property performance. Most recently, Andrew has created an innovative approach that significantly increases real estate cash flow by combining equity leverage with RMS/dividend investing strategies.

At the conference, Andrew will share these practical leverage and cash-flow optimization techniques with attendees.

In addition to his investing career, Andrew is currently semi-retired from his medical practice in British Columbia, Canada. His focus in the coming years includes continued real estate development projects in Moab, Utah; Baja California Sur, Mexico; and British Columbia.

Andrew also plans to spend winters in Cabo San Lucas, where he will treat pain and musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, establish an outreach pain clinic for economically challenged local residents, and teach annual MSK medical seminars each February.

When he’s not working on development or medical projects, Andrew enjoys traveling the world with his wife.

Sua Van Truong

Commercial Mortgage Secrets

Sua Truong is a commercial financing strategist and global real estate investor with over 20 years of experience structuring capital for complex and non-traditional real estate projects. He has advised on financing across multifamily, hospitality resorts, mixed-use developments, student housing, and special-purpose assets, with a reputation for understanding how lenders truly assess risk—and why many deals fail long before approval.

Known for his contrarian perspective, Sua challenges traditional residential real estate assumptions in markets facing regulatory uncertainty and weakened property rights. His focus is on commercial niches with durable demand, as capital becomes increasingly mobile in an AI-driven, remote-work economy.

Following the successful completion of international resort developments, Sua is now involved in experience-driven commercial projects across Southeast Asia. His core thesis is simple: capital follows clarity, and investors who understand financing psychology—not hype—will control the next decade of opportunity.

Learn:

• Why deals fail before they reach a lender
• Why projects fail and how you can prevent those failures
• Why there’s more risk in matured markets (North America/Euro etc) than developing markets. What’s the risk and rewards comparison?
  

Andrew Schulhof

Andrew Schulhof is a seasoned real estate strategist, international investor, author, and educator who helps individuals and professionals think differently about property, wealth, and purpose.

For more than 25 years as a licensed REALTOR® in British Columbia and Alberta, Andrew has guided buyers, sellers, and investors with clarity, discipline, and insight — not hype. He has owned and operated investment-focused brokerages, coached industry professionals, and advised developers, earning a reputation as a thoughtful, analytical mentor whose work bridges practical financial literacy and real-world investing experience.

What makes Andrew’s perspective unique — and why audiences consistently seek him out — is his ability to translate complexity into actionable frameworks that empower confident decision-making. He doesn’t just explain what to do — he helps people understand why they want to do it in the first place. This focus on purpose and clarity sets him apart from typical investment educators.

Andrew is the author of Look Before You Leap, but LEAP! — a strategic guide written to help investors sidestep common traps, crystalize goals, and build personalized action plans. He’s also widely published on Lifestyle Real Estate Investing, showing audiences how strategic property ownership can support both financial wealth and lifestyle fulfillment.

As an active investor himself, Andrew owns property across Canada and has lived the lessons he teaches through international investments in Hawaii and Mexico. His sessions blend market insight, rigorous due diligence tools, real case studies, and mindset frameworks that leave audiences not just informed — but ready to act.

Attendees come to hear Andrew because he doesn’t just teach concepts — he equips them with methodologies they can use immediately to elevate their investing confidence, clarify purpose, and unlock new possibilities.

Wade Fenner

Slow Flip Deals

Wade’s entrepreneurial journey began before Grade 3 when he convinced his father to help him buy a bright yellow hot-rod wagon. His Dad agreed on one condition; Wade had to pay for half of it. So, with a $5 loan for start-up capital, and a simple idea, Wade went off knocking on doors offering to buy empty bottles from their neighbors at 50% of their deposit value then hauling them to the depot to double his money.

And just like that another creative entrepreneur was born.

Then, in 1995, while working on a high-rise construction project, Wade suffered a seizure that cost him his driver’s license—and soon after, his job. Rather than cry about it, he relocated from Vancouver to Calgary, bought a bicycle, and began flipping houses. With relentless determination, and a big grin on his face, he flipped seven houses in the first year starting with nothing more than a cash advance on two credit cards, a cell phone, and a bicycle.

By the end of 2007, Wade owned 30 houses, had completed more than 100 flips, completed a 20-acre land development project, and taught his own two-day seminar over 30 times. Remarkably, he acquired his first 110 properties without qualifying for a single dollar of traditional financing.

Today, Wade is back flipping houses in the Edmonton area and eyeing certain areas in the USA to utilize a brilliant strategy referred to as a SLOW-FLIP—a hybrid seller-financing model that eliminates renovations, rental damage, and rent collection headaches.

After decades in real estate, Wade believes he’s discovered a simple, scalable solution to the biggest challenges investors face—and an opportunity in a market with endless houses and motivated buyers.

Martin Burlingame

Insurance and how to use it effectively

Martin Burlingame serves as Division President of One80 Binding and leads product development initiatives for Bridge Specialty Group. With extensive experience in the excess & surplus (E&S) sector, Burlingame brings deep industry expertise and a proven track record of building and scaling specialty insurance platforms across diverse product lines.

Burlingame joined Bridge Specialty Group through the acquisition of One80 Intermediaries, where he most recently served as President of Binding Authority. In his expanded role, he will focus on advancing product innovation and supporting strategic growth across Bridge’s wholesale and specialty divisions. Prior to One80, Burlingame was President of Commercial Insurance Group, LLC (dba Bigfoot Insurance), an online MGA platform that handled submissions for over 25,000 agents across the US and where he led underwriting and distribution strategies tailored to niche markets. In addition to his insurance leadership, Burlingame is a combat veteran who served a tour in Somalia.

Burlingame holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French from Washington & Lee University and a Master of Arts in Management from Webster University

Drew Wahlgren

Structuring High-yield Real Estate Investments through Sale Leaseback Acquisitions

Drew has been investing in real estate since 2011 and been an entrepreneur since 2005, owning and operating a food and beverage distribution company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Drew joined the partners of MAG Capital Partners in 2019 and is currently the Senior Vice President of Capital Markets for the firm, which manages over $1.5B in commercial real estate and operating companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from California State University at Hayward, and lives in the Southlake, TX with his wife and three children.

Mike Iuliano

Stock charts and how to read them

When the stock market crashed in 2008, I was determined to change my way of thinking. I spent countless hours doing research, read countless books, analyzed 1000’s of charts, and kept adding more tools to my belt. Then I networked with a group of successful investors, who taught me everything that they already knew. Since then I have continued my training, read more books, analyzed more charts, and served as an investment coach for many people over the years. Then I added more tools to my belt when I did a stock options training course with famous author & stock options investor Lee Lowell. I also began investing in crypto currencies in 2017 onwards, and it has become one of my main focuses in recent years. I’ve always been naturally skilled with statistics/math, I rely heavily on charts/technical analysis, and I am always learning/adding new tools to my belt.

My training/experience have allowed me to evaluate charts properly, which helps me enter or exit my investments with confidence.