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June 2009

(Edmonton) Alberta remains best place for real estate investors

June 30, 2009 Edmonton

Here’s a great article from the Gary Lamphier in the Edmonton Journal today. I also got a call last night about a great deal in Edmonton that I’m going to make an offer on this weekend. When it comes to the housing market, E-town still rules. That’s the word from Don Campbell, president of Canada’s Real [...]

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Do You Drink the REIN Kool-Aid?

June 29, 2009 For REIN Members

Man I had blast this weekend at get A.L.I.F.E. workshop. The Western Canadian REIN members are so amazing, getting to know a lot of you was absolutely inspiring. The idea for this blog came to me talking to some rookie Ontario REIN members while at get A.L.I.F.E. this weekend. I was in line to get [...]

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Maximizing Your Return On Advertisement – Marketing Well Spent

June 28, 2009 Marketing

Real estate investment requires all sorts of marketing, from simple word of mouth to wide-scale marketing on the internet to fill vacancies. Measuring the effectiveness is important, because paying for advertising that doesn’t work is expensive. There are two important types of measurements we’ll focus on, but first, a word about tracking. There are a [...]

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Canadian Internet Marketing Resources

June 26, 2009 Marketing

I gave a talk about marketing for Canadian real estate investors this week, focusing on internet marketing. Given that I work as an SEO, it’s a topic I know a bit about, so combining internet marketing and real estate investing was a pretty good fit. Here are some of the resources I promised people. Canadian [...]

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Deadlines – A Stop-Motion SOW

June 26, 2009 Song of the Week

This week we’re doing something different and a little fun with the Song of the Week. May you all be inspired to go play with Post-It Notes. If you haven’t submitted a property for our rental appraisal game, go do it!

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Know the Real Rents – Ask a Realtor

June 23, 2009 Property Management

There’s a huge list of important variables and issues to consider when you’re looking at a piece of investment real estate. Even with all the due diligence a good investor does, there’s one big variable that’s harder than all the rest to judge…and we’re going to make it easier for some of you who are [...]

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Get a LIFE Weekend and Economic Summit

June 19, 2009 REIN

There’s a great Real Estate Investment Network (REIN) event in Edmonton coming up soon, June 26-28th. Friday night starts with an economic summit with key speakers, some top Canadian economists and veteran analysts. You can download the PDF brochure here, or click here to register. The panel for the summit will include: Carl Gomez, Vice President, [...]

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