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January 2010

The Right Mortgage For Me

January 31, 2010 Financing
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I’ve got a lot of friends who are buying their first homes right now. We go out for coffee and people are talking about how big they’re trying to make their down payment, or how quick they can manage to pay off their mortgage. That’s great, and I’m glad they’re being fiscally responsible. I’m looking [...]

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The Road to Rich Dad and Other Scams

January 29, 2010 For Real Estate Investors

Robert Kiyosaki, Darren Weeks and a bunch of other idiots are about to get a smacking they deserve. Marketplace is doing a spot tonight on their look at the Canadian Rich Dad Seminars. There’s an accompanying article on the CBC website here about why they’re calling Rich Dad Seminars ‘deceptive’. I’ve made myself pretty clear [...]

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Totally like whatever, you know?

January 29, 2010 Song of the Week

Today’s song of the week is actually a poem together with some absolutely awesome visualization and typography. The video is made by Ronnie Bruce and the poem is called Totally like whatever, you know? by Taylor Mali. I have to agree with the poem completely, and I think that it manages to do so with [...]

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Remember – Ranking Reports Coming Soon

January 27, 2010 Marketing

Just a quick reminder that the Edmonton and Calgary Winter 2010 rental website ranking reports will be released on the 31st, but only to those who register in advance. There’s one new rental website that performed will in our rankings that I’ve never hear of before. Might be time to move some of your advertising [...]

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Do This Before You Unzip Your Pants

January 25, 2010 Financing
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Call everyone on your team. Your real estate team. Get your mind out of the gutter. I’m in the middle of buying a new principle residence and almost made one of the most deadly, amateurish mistakes in the history of time: removing conditions without making sure they’ve actually been satisfied. In my case I recently [...]

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Mike McGee – Slam Poetry of the Week

January 22, 2010 Personal

Here’s something different for your Friday. This is Mike McGee performing a poem called “Like”. I first saw him in Kelowna performing in a group called Tons of Fun University. It’s one of the shorter ones, but still pretty awesome. Check out some of the other videos up on YouTube. Enjoy your weekend!

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How Much Traffic Did My Blog Get In 2009?

January 18, 2010 Marketing
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I believe in sharing and teaching. There’s a lot of people in the real estate space and the internet marketing space who are just starting out or who have questions about what I do. In the spirit of sharing, here’s my second annual post of blog traffic stats. I was also fairly inspired by SEOmoz’s [...]

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