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February 2009

A Concert by Mason Jennings- SOW

February 27, 2009 Song of the Week
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Vancouver For A Day

February 24, 2009 Personal

I’m just getting ready to head out, pick up Megan and go to Vancouver. We’ll have the afternoon to wander around the town, and then catch the Brad Paisley’s show tonight. (I also discovered that my Aunt is related to his steel guitar player, and a bunch of my Edmonton relatives got first row tickets [...]

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Back In The Great White North

February 20, 2009 Personal

I’m writing this on my iPod Touch at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. Amanda and I bumped our flight up because there’s supposed to be 6-8″ of snow tonight and I want to get to Edmonton for Grandpa’s birthday dinner tomorrow night. We managed to find an earlier flight to Seattle and the nice people at the [...]

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Miles Davis – So What (1964)

February 20, 2009 Song of the Week

During jr high and high school I played a lot of music. Lots of classical and lots of jazz with a whole lot of everything else mixed in. (I’m a percussionist) I very nearly studies music in university rather than science, and I still play a fair bit. (More often when I live in Edmonton) [...]

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We Can’t All Be In Debt

February 18, 2009 Economic Fundamentals

Stephen Gordon is a professor of economics at l’Université Laval and together with Nick Rowe writes the Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, one of the most informative reads on Economics news out there. He made a great point a while back that I keep forgetting to mention. Average Debt dosen’t exist. The debits and credits balance out. It’s a [...]

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Define Your Investing Niche

February 17, 2009 Business

Hi, I’m Chris. I buy three-bedroom townhouses in Millwoods. That’s my niche. You may have met my Dad, Brent. He’s the King 82nd Street. (That’s over here) If you’re going to do anything, you need to define your niche. Where, what, how, why, where, and what makes you different than your competition. To that end, [...]

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8 Essential Real Estate Investment Business Processes

February 16, 2009 Business

For me, and for all the REIN members like me, we’re buying or are preparing to buy. I have no doubt in my mind that the properties I buy today will have appreciated significantly in five years’ time. Why five years? Because that’s the minimum hold that my Joint Venture partners and I agree on. [...]

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