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April 2009

Don Campbell on Saskaboom

April 27, 2009 REIN

So Don did an interview for a CBC segment called Saskaboom. I’ve never heard of this program, but it’s some interesting perspective. It’s a 14 minute long video. There’s a quick bit with Dale Ripplinger Vice President of the Canadian Real Estate Association. There’s no date on it, but this one must have been back [...]

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Real Estate Education From Kindergarten to University

April 26, 2009 REIN

There’s a natural progression within Real Estate education, it’s a lot like school. I’m going to try and paint a picture of what I think this looks like for Canadian investors. I’m using the metaphor of school because it’s familiar to us all, but don’t think that it’s literal. For many investors there’s a 10-20 [...]

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She’s Everything To Me

April 23, 2009 Song of the Week

Yesterday marked on month until my wedding, so today’s song of the week is dedicated to the woman I love.

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6 Things You Should Do To Your Mortgage When Interest Rates Drop

April 21, 2009 Financing

The Bank of Canada just dropped the prime interest rate by 0.25% making it….0.25%. The federal banks quickly followed. Here are the 6 things you should do right now. Call your banker/mortgage broker and reduce your mortgage payments as close to interest-only as possible. Do not go into negative-amoritzation (i.e. where your loan gets bigger). [...]

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Don Campbell on BNN Talking Canadian Real Estate

April 20, 2009 REIN

Here’s a video of an interview Don had with the folks at BNN (the Business News Network). She starts off with one of Don’s old quotes, and asks if he still thinks it’s true today. Even in today’s unsustainable economy, an investment in real estate is still a solid investment, backed by solid assets. Here’s [...]

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Top 10 REIN Twitterers (Tweets? Twits?)

April 19, 2009 REIN
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What Do I Do?

April 18, 2009 Real Estate

The brother of a friend of mine heard that I invest in Edmonton real estate and started asking questions of my friend. He apparently looked around my blog, and asked “isn’t there a post on there that explains just what you do?” I figured my About page explained that, but then I realized that it [...]

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