Investing For The Golden Years, Applying to Live in Space with Karen Cumming

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week’s guest is friend, real estate client, Stock Hacker, iWIN Member Karen Cumming</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You may remember Karen Cumming from the decade she spent as a television reporter at CH-tv - a station based in Hamilton that also serves Niagara and the GTA.  Years before that, she worked as a radio newscaster and talk show producer everywhere from Hamilton to Toronto to Montreal</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">with CHUM Radio and Corus.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s a good chance you may have heard her name thanks to something that has nothing to do with media, though, and everything to do with space. A project, in fact, that is literally “out of this world”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Karen is one of what’s known as “The Mars 100” - 100 people from around the world who have made it to the final round of astronaut selection in a legitimate mission to colonise the red planet with a company out of the Netherlands known as Mars One. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Long before her space adventures, Karen became involved in real estate investing back in 2008.  You remember - the year the markets tanked. The year “the experts” would have said no one should be putting their money into property.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite all of that, she bought a single family home in the Old South neighbourhood of London, Ontario.  Soon after, she joined the Real Estate Investment Network - “REIN” - in order to learn what she needed to know about becoming a successful landlord.  Almost twelve years later, she now also owns a freehold townhouse on Hamilton mountain, and a single family home in the lower city of Hamilton… and is one of the original members if iWIN.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, Karen is a freelance journalist, health promoter and teacher who writes about mindful living, meditation and self-care at karencumming.com.</span></p> <p><span s