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February 2009

Don Cambell on the Next 18 Months

February 14, 2009 For Real Estate Investors

Don R. Cambell did an interview with the fine folks from CFUN (1410 AM), a Vancouver talk radio show. REIN members have heard this stuff before, but if you’ve never been out to a REIN event, here’s your chance to hear some reality. And Don’s right, the female REIN members I know are kicking some [...]

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Matt Maher’s Empty & Beautiful – Song of the Week

February 13, 2009 Song of the Week

It’s been a great week but I’m glad it’s Friday! This week Megan and I started marriage prep, I got to speak at CBD Network and I attended Twestival Kelowna on Thursday night. Tomorrow I think Megan and I are going cross-country skiing or snowshoeing and then I’ll make dinner. Sunday I’m up a Big [...]

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4 Tips For Pitching A Complex Purchase Offer

February 12, 2009 Real Estate

The current market is full of amazing deals, and the US market is full of even more interesting buying strategies that the Canadian market. Getting an offer that’s anything more complicated than 10% below asking accepted is complicated. Now I’m just going to talk the Canadian real estate market for a second, because that’s the [...]

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One Year Later – Back to CBD Network

February 11, 2009 Presentations

Today’s February 11th, and that makes it my one year Enquiroversary. I tried to find a post from back then, but the only thing that makes any sense is a funny video about the subprime crisis. Besides the admiration of my co-workers and a free lunch, I got a cool present. I had been asked [...]

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The Job – Finding Good Employees Has Changed

February 10, 2009 The Economy

If you haven’t seen this video yet, you’ve gotta check it out. I laughed until I cried.

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Statistics – Get 100% More BMO Free!

February 10, 2009 Statistics

I knew I forgot something when I was doing up the stats on the weekend. That’d be our friends at BMO. I guess I’ll have to do CIBC next, but that’s getting to be a little much. Here’s the graph for BMO’s GDP projections. I’ve updated the graphs with the other banks’ growth projections.

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Banks Agree? Not Bloody Likely

February 9, 2009 Statistics

After seeing how popular the last couple posts have been, I thought it’d be a good idea to post the rest of the GDP stats which make up the dataset. You can view this set (and the interactive verisons of the charts) online here. And just to summarize the data another way, here are three [...]

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