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October 2008

Blood, it’s in you to give!

October 23, 2008 Personal

Your Public Service Announcement (PSA) of the day: Go donate blood! (and sign up for the Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Registry too) I went on Tuesday. We do it as a group at work through the Partners for Life program. I’d be amiss if I didn’t say thank you to Enquiro for giving us [...]

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Quickstart Live 2008 Real Estate Seminar in Edmonton

October 21, 2008 REIN

I’m going to be there. You’d better be there. It’s the Real Estate Investment Network’s Quickstart Live in Edmonton, November 8th and 9th, 2008. What this is, in essence, is an expanded and updated version of Real Estate Investing in Canada. Take that book, add in all the tools you need to actually get out [...]

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Property Mangement Rocks

October 20, 2008 Property Management

No, I’m not saying that property management rocks. In fact it quite often sucks. What I’m saying is that there are rocks (noun) for property management, and for everything you do in life. There’s a great video of Stephen Covey putting rocks, sand a pebbles into a jar. The only way it’s all going to [...]

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Harper’s Back and Banking’s Fine

October 16, 2008 The Economy

Well, Stephen Harper and the Conservatives won a minority goverment. I was hoping for a majority, but such is life. A Conservative Majority would have been the best scenario for Canadian Real Estate, but at least it seems to be a strong enough minority to be stable for a while. The world economic situation and [...]

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Moving charts for Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto

October 12, 2008 Cool Websites

To understand the future of real estate, it’s important to understand it’s past. This usually means lots and lots of graphs and charts. Here I’ve used Google Doc’s Motion Charts (ex. Gapminder) to show some metrics for three cities: Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto. It’s broken down by year, and the metrics are average price, GDP [...]

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Warning: Diatribe Ahead

October 10, 2008 The Economy

Markets are crashing. Economies are collapsing. Politicians are being twits. I get freaked out. I’ll be honest. Sometimes I read the news, or check my stock portfolio and see things going completely to pot. I’m never going to be able pay for my kid’s education, or Megan and my wedding. People are going to loose [...]

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The New Grass Revival Song of the Week

October 10, 2008 Song of the Week

Here’s a blast from the past. It’s Bela Fleck’s New Grass Revival band playing Can’t Stop Now. Their more rocky stuff reminds me of a band some old friends of mine have called the Grassroot Deviation. They’re a great live band if you get the chance to see them. Most of them are from Edmonton. [...]

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