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June 2008

The Black Triangle of East Edmonton Eats New Investors

June 28, 2008

First time Real Estate Investors, often out-of-town seminar grads, come charging into Edmonton and buy where the property is the cheapest.
It’s Cheap for a Reason
I shake my head whenever a client calls to tell me his new property is in East Edmonton. One client bought what he called a “3-plex.” In reality it [...]

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Tactical vs. Strategic Real Estate Investing – Pt 1

June 27, 2008

I was talking to a friend yesterday about real estate. He’s moving to Calgary to pursue a job opportunity and was wondering if he should sell his house here, or rent it out. What sort of house should he buy in Calgary? What is the Calgary market doing? The Kelowna market?
All these questions are wrapped [...]

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Song of the Week for June 27th

June 26, 2008

I’m back on track this week with the song of the week. I’m just hanging out in Kelowna this weekend, enjoying some great sunshine and +30 temperatures.
This week it’s Somebody Told Me by The Killers.
I’ll try and post again mid-Friday with something I’ve been playing with.
It’s almost Canada Day!

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The News for June 25th

June 25, 2008

Here’s some interesting headlines from the last few weeks. I’m still getting my feet on the ground after a great weekend in Edmonton.

Things in Fort McMurray are always done in a big, huge, gigantic, enormous way
Maybe everything isn’t bigger in Texas, after all….Gina Dobie, events and tours co-ordinator for Fort [...]

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The Gregsten

June 22, 2008

 I spent most of the last two days enjoying time with friends as they got ready for their wedding. It’s been an amazing time and Kristen and Greg are a beautiful couple. Congrats guys!
I didn’t post for a couple days because of some problems with my hosting company (you may have noticed the site was [...]

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Help Blogger Vlad Zablotskyy and Help Yourself

June 16, 2008

I first ran into Vlad Zablotskyy from Go Beyond MLS  when I was listed on the Top 100 Real Estate Blogs (the list, my post about it). We had a couple of nice emails about it.
Vlad made the apparent mistake of calling a spade a spade with real estate affiliate ePerks. The nasty tactics ePerks [...]

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A Trip to Belize

June 15, 2008

Anyone out there who is a REIN member, has attended a Quickstart or read Don’s book Real Estate Investing in Canada: Creating Wealth with the ACRE System is going to be familar with the concept of a Personal Belize.
Simply put, it’s a way of visualizing your goals, in this case for your real estate, in [...]

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Where to Advertise your Properties (and some traffic tips)

June 14, 2008

I was at a REIN coffee meeting in Kelowna and we had a good chat about places to advertise our vacancies in Kelowna. After the discussion, and to save everyone from trying to write down a whole bunch of websites I’m posting a list (Edmonton, Kelowna, and Everywhere). I’ll come back to this list from [...]

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