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October 2008

San Jose Song of the Week

October 31, 2008 Song of the Week

Well, this week’s song comes from Tawnee Kendall and it’s called Make It Easier. I love the acoustic guitar. I picked her song because I wanted something from the Bay Area and that’s what Google gave me. Cool tune. I’d love to see the lyrics. I’ve been down in San Jose since Sunday, and I’m [...]

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Credit Liquidity is the Problem

October 30, 2008 The Economy

The real driver (such as it is) of the current American and global recession is the lack of available credit. It was Benjamin Tal from CIBC who pointed out that Ben Bernanke, the chariman  of the US Federal Reserve is a student of the Great Depression. His diagnosis, (via Ben Tal, which I agree with), [...]

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Reflections From San Francisco

October 28, 2008 Real Estate

Well, right now I’m in San Francisco. I spend the last two days in San Jose, and I’ll go back there tonight after I have dinner with a co-worker. Being here has helped me realize a couple things about my life. First, I love Canada. This one has been done to death, but there’s so [...]

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The Tragicaly Hip – Song of the Week

October 24, 2008 Song of the Week

This week’s song of the week comes from the Tragically Hip, the quintesential Canadian rock band. Bobcaygeon is one of my favorite tunes from them. I’m a big fan of their older stuff. Road Apples and Fully Completely were probably my favorite albums.  I’m up at Big White this weekend and then on Sunday I’m [...]

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A/B Testing if Real Estate Websites Should Sing

October 24, 2008 Real Estate

I don’t think you should have music on your website unless it’s about music or it’s completely about multimedia. For the Realtors out there, this absolutely means that you shouldn’t have music on your site, on your listings, or on your email. Ok, so you can’t really put music in your email, but the point [...]

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Don’t rent out a new home…or blog about it either

October 23, 2008 Property Management

I was going to write a post giving some kudos to Sara MacLennan’s great post about the hazards of renting out a new house. I went and re-read the post. But then I got distracted by the giant string of comments. Holy crap.  What is it about real estate that makes people act like fools?  [...]

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We’re Not Mothballing The Oilsands

October 23, 2008 Oil

From an Reuters’ article I found today: “Given the current situation in the financial markets what we are doing is announcing a change in how we execute this project. We are not mothballing it, we’re not stopping it … We believe this will give us reduced risk on a go-forward basis and increased flexibility.” – [...]

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