We are Daniel G. St-Jean, and Laurel R. Simmons—entrepreneurs to the core! Laurel has owned her own business for over 29 years, and Daniel for 30. Laurel is 55 and Daniel turned the big 6-0 just over a year ago! We met at a meeting of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (we were both members, but of different chapters) on March 8, 2003. We got married on September 26, 2003—after only 27 weeks! (We are people of action…who like to take advantage of a great opportunity when we see one!)

Laurel has been the owner of two successful consulting companies specializing in technical communications and software development, working with start-ups that employ half a dozen people to international giant corporations. She is a professionally trained personal and business coach, and is the author of Your Career Is Your Business. Laurel is a sought-after trainer, speaker and facilitator who has given workshops and presentations at local and international events on communication and business issues. She has spent years working with her clients and colleagues to help them build their businesses. Like Daniel, she now focuses much of her time and energy on being an effective Real Estate Investor.

Daniel has been in “sales & marketing” in one form all of his adult life. And in the last 20 years, he has bought, started, or sold ten different businesses. He has been a professional photographer, a publisher of educational material, calendars and greeting cards, the owner of a framing shop & art gallery, a professional tour guide, an independent distributor of health products, a speaker, a trainer, and a teacher. He has also written two published books; his first one became a Canadian bestseller in 1992. The first printing of his second book—A First Serving of Milk & Cookies for Success—was released in September 2004 and is almost sold out. As well, he has contributed a chapter in the bestselling book 101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life (Volume 2) that featured many celebrity authors like Jack Canfield, John Gray, Richard Carlson, Bob Proctor and Alan Cohen.

Together—as Internet Marketing Advisors, Affiliate Marketers and Home Based Business Builders—we have generated millions of dollars of business for our clients, customers, affiliates, and ourselves, and we're very enthusiastic about achieving that level of success with our Real Estate Investors. We just love to help others! That's one of the main reasons why we LOVE our Tenant-First Rent-to-Own program. That's probably the best win-win-win situation we've ever created!

And oh yes... we're the kind of people who are constantly trying new things, and building the kind of life and business that we want. We believe in working smart and having fun... AND in sharing the wealth that we create.

Now, if you visited our two offices (side by side, in our townhouse), you’d notice that the walls are covered with our favorite positive quotations and images. They represent our philosophy, and our guiding principles for our personal and professional life. We have seven: here they are:

 “The dictionary is the only place where it is okay for business to come before people.”
–Daniel St-Jean

 “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.”

 “Don’t do to others what you don’t like others doing to you.”

 “Grain by grain a loaf; stone by stone a castle.”
– Yugoslavian Proverb

 “You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.”
–Zig Ziglar

 “We will either find a way or make one.”
–Hannibal

 “When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail.
If you’re going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.”
–H. Jackson Brown, Jr.