W Rick HarrisAuthor Bio - W. Rick HarrisW. Rick Harris is Investment Real Estate Author, Coach and Consultant who helps investment real estate investors to improve their real estate purchasing and renting knowledge. Rick's twenty years of investment real estate eperience shines through his book on the importance we can place on the impact of a strong financial foundation, sustainable wealth and a living legacy that investment real estate has on our lives. Rick guides others to identify the right type of property to purchase, the required time to buy, putting the deal together, financing and a proven cash flow and marketing system. These areas are a few of the ever-increasing complexities in purchasing revenue real estate and making them easier to understand. Rick has a Bachelor of Education with a Major in Business Management from the University of Alberta. Rick earned a designation as a Real Estate Investment Advisor (REIA) and numerous coaching and training certifications. Rick has written extensively for one of Canada's prominent investment real estate magazines and currently writes his blog in the area of investment real estate. Before starting an investment real estate coaching and consulting business, Rick worked for over 25 years in several senior management sales roles for a global food manufacturing company. Rick had an award-winning career of training and managing the sales organization to sell and work with the marketing division to launch hundreds of new products into the retail marketplace. Rick now trains investment real estate investors, entrepreneurs and small business owners to purchase and market their investment real estate to potential renters. Rick affectionally refers to his renters as clients. Rick's father was a member of the Armed Forces and had numerous postings throughout Europe and Canada. For the first twenty-one years of Rick's life, Rick and his family lived in twenty-one different rental residences. Rick developed a real appreciation of great rental housing as part of his youth. Knowing the positive impact of clean, safe and secure housing addressed his family's residential needs. Upon retiring from the forces, Rick's father excelled at his real estate career and was Rick's first investment real estate partner. Running Rock Legend, Rick competed as a half-marathon runner over the last fifteen years, earning a running Rock Legend designation as part of the North American Rock N' Roll Running Series. Rick is now training and competing as a triathlete. Read More Read Less