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March 2008

Property #1? P0wned.

March 17, 2008 Alberta

Kiss me, I’m a real estate investor. I just got the call from my JV partner that we bought a townhouse. I’ll post more next week after I’ve crunched the paperwork this weekend back home. I’ll post the whole story after the whole thing is cleared, but now you know how long it took me [...]

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A Simple Song of the Week

March 15, 2008 Song of the Week

It’s looking to be a pretty great weekend for me. I’m up with some friends from church for a retreat weekend. There have been some pretty cool developments on the real estate side, but I’ll share some of those next week. For now, it’s time for the Song of the Week! This is Hey There [...]

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Kids can make $2,500/hour

March 13, 2008 Uncategorized

Today at Enquiro we did a corporate challenge…Apprentice-Style. They split us into two teams of about 9 each, gave us some tickets to the Kelowna Rockets, and set us loose. The goal was to raise as much as possible for the charity of our choice. The only catch:we had to be in for the count [...]

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Alberta Economic News for Real Estate Investors, March 10, 2008

March 12, 2008 Alberta

Today’s going to be the first of a series of posts just to provide news on the Alberta economy and real estate market. I’m indebted to Joe Iannuzzi, the staff and members of REIN, and all the others who share news in the Alberta Economic Fundamentals discussion at myREINspace. Oilsands job growth enters new phase [...]

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Sailing, Trucks and the Song of the Week

March 9, 2008 Song of the Week

It’s a lazy Sunday. I went for my first yacht race of the season at the Kelowna Yacht Club. Now I’ve got a bag of popcorn and I’m flipping through listings on MLS.ca. Today’s Song of the Week carries on our Albertan theme and comes from Corb Lund and The Hurtin Albertans. I had the [...]

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RSS Readers and A Link Roundup

March 6, 2008 News

There a few things I do almost every day, and only once a day. One of them is check my RSS reader for the news. I don’t often click through bookmarks, and now I’m using del.icio.us for more and more of my bookmarks. Anyways, for those of you who don’t currently use RSS feeds, here’s [...]

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The Tories Are Back: 2 Reasons Why and What it Means for Real Estate

March 3, 2008 Alberta

I think that CBC’s headline says it best. Albertans re-elect historic 11th straight Tory government There are two big reasons why Honest Ed won, and CBC points to them, if obliquely. Driven by the booming oilsands, the province is grappling with major growth pressures, including a lack of affordable housing and aging infrastructure, as well [...]

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