An Alberta Lawyer on Buying/Selling Property and Alternative Real Estate Investment Strategies.
This website offers free info to help you achieve success with real estate. You don’t have to be an investor to take advantage of all the great content here. Regular people buying and selling property can still benefit from knowing more about realty law! For many folks, their home is their single largest investment, so it doesn’t hurt to think like an investor—even if you only own one door.
This site gives you the inside scoop from a now-retired—but still connected—Alberta property attorney who is also an experienced investor himself.
Knowing about the law opens the door to exciting opportunities with Creative Strategies that aren’t common knowledge.
At some point, most people will need more than information and a “do-it-yourself” attitude; they will need a helping hand with the legalities of real estate. This website is thus also the hub for creative real estate investing information and products. Read on to find out more, but first a bit about Barry and his background.
Barry’s Biography
Barry C. McGuire (BA, LLB) practised law in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for 50 years and retired in November 2024 as Senior Council at Field Law LLP. Barry is also your guide to thinking about Alberta real estate like an Investor Lawyer. As an attorney, Barry’s practice emphasized buying and selling houses, homes, condos, townhouses, apartments, acreages, and more. He is co-author of the national bestseller, 97 Tips For Canadian Real Estate Investors and has been a sought-after speaker for investment, real estate, and law groups. Check out the great things attendees of his workshops are saying: Testimonials.
When he’s coaching investors, Barry is an avid gardener, hockey player, family man, and bon vivant. He lives in Edmonton with his wife Donna, who provides administrative oversight of this website. Barry loves spending time with his niece Adrianna, the daughter he never had. His son Colin is an ethnomusicologist, but he is also the content manager for this website.
How Can We Help You?
Most of the content of this website is free. You’ll find informative blog posts, podcasts, and videos. These include Tales from the Trenches, which are real life stories of Canadian real estate investors as both a podcast and blog. Through YouTube, Barry also presents his Focus on Real Estate series of quick tips.
If you have a thirst for more information about creative real estate investing with a legal edge, Barry’s Focus Series Home Study Kits are just the thing. These comprehensive programs deliver the complete Focus Workshop experience through professional video recordings of the actual workshops, giving you front-row access to all the insights, strategies, and interactive discussions that made these events so valuable.
Each Home Study Kit includes everything you would have received at a live Focus Workshop: complete professional video recordings of the workshop sessions, digital access to all relevant legal documents and templates, plus the massive textbook meticulously prepared by Donna McGuire. These textbooks are filled with detailed explanations, case studies, template documents, and supplementary readings that serve as your ongoing reference library. As Barry always emphasized at the live events, “We don’t teach the textbook—people can read that on their own and keep it for future reference and study.” The Home Study Kits follow this same philosophy, with the videos covering the key strategies and insights while the textbook provides comprehensive backup material.
What makes these Home Study Kits special is the ongoing support included with each program—you’re not just buying a course, you’re joining a community of serious investors.
The Focus Series comprises proven titles like Wholesaling (a.k.a. ‘Assignments’), Joint Ventures, Rent-to-Own Success, Agreements for Sale, the always-popular Rapid Cash Program, and more. Each Home Study Kit gives you the same in-depth, legally-focused education that attendees received at the live workshops, but with the convenience of learning at your own pace and the ability to review complex concepts as many times as needed.
These Home Study Kits can be found on the Shop page of this site. Many titles are already available, with the complete library representing decades of proven real estate investing strategies and legal expertise.
Thanks for visiting! Please take some time to check out everything the site has to offer because we’re confident you’ll find it helpful.
Legal Disclaimer:
The content of this website is intended as general information and not individualized legal advice. The material in blog posts, podcasts, videos, and all other media is not intended to create, nor does receipt of it constitute, a lawyer-client relationship involving Barry C. McGuire.
Plain English:
This is not legal advice and reading my website does not make me your lawyer!
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