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January 2009

Build A House in 3 Hours (and 26 minutes)

January 29, 2009 Uncategorized

I thought you’d all enjoy this video of Habitat For Humanity setting the World Record for the fastest house build ever. It was a 3 bedroom bungalow in Alabama. Great stuff. I personally support Habitat, as does REIN. So should you!

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8 Tips for Recession Proofing Your Real Estate Business Model

January 26, 2009 Business

[Ed Note: Today's Guest Post comes for Garth Chapman, a Diamond REIN member and the co-founder of REMA, a Real Estate Management and Analysis software. (Not so shameless plug: I use it!)] This has been our approach to making sure our estate business prospers going forward. We’re always trying to answer the question: What are [...]

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Move Before You Have To

January 24, 2009 Personal

[Ed Note: Today's Guest Post comes from Leigh Davies, my mother, a C.M.A. and a 24 year veteran of the property management industry] I have had a most stressful last 5 days. My parents-in-law, Bill and Hilda are both nearing their 80th birthday, and are still living in their own 5 bedroom house. Both are [...]

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Sailing Video of the Week

January 17, 2009 Song of the Week

Today’s Song of the Week has been bumped in favour of a Sailing Video. This is a compilation of highlights from Leg 1 of the Volvo Ocean Race (nee Whitbread Round the World Race). The best part of the video? At 1:38 when (I think) Green Dragon breaks their boom. I laughed so hard at [...]

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2008 in Review

January 14, 2009 Personal

January I started out the new year at the lake with some friends, and then got back to Kelowna for some good skiing. My two favorite posts were a little bit on the sub-prime crisis and a wee rant about renters and owners. February On the 11th I started working at Enquiro, which spawned the [...]

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An Absolutely Shocking Headline!

January 10, 2009 The Economy

I almost fell over when I innocently opened my Google Finance to take my weekly peek at the portfolio (which only consists of COGT, WNP and KO), and the featured article was from the Globe and Mail’s reportonbusiness.com. It was about the new employment statistics, and it has a headline that’s pretty rare these days. [...]

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Pass the Peas!

January 9, 2009 Song of the Week

Today’s Song of the Week is Maceo Parker and company doing Pass The Peas at La Mutualité in paris Paris circa May 2000. I’m skiing this weekend, and we’ll be back with more bloggy goodness on Monday!

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