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June 2010

Love Your iPad? Real Estate Does!

June 15, 2010 Marketing
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I’ve heard from two people today who own, or have ordered an iPad. There’s an Edmonton iPad user group starting up. It’s pretty gnarly looking, and if you’re talking with people or want to share information or presentations, it’s brilliant. If you’re tech savy and in sales you should buy an iPad yesterday. Jared Chamberlain had [...]

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Next Marketing Workshop Edmonton June 20th

June 14, 2010 Uncategorized
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I’m going to be running the next all-day online marketing workshop this Sunday, June 20th at the Davies Management and Realty Offices (17842-106 Ave). The venue may change closer to the date, because I’m almost at capacity already. It’s a full day (9am-4pm), lunch is provided and the cost is $297. Seating is limited to [...]

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Free Edmonton Investment Property Tours

June 14, 2010 Edmonton
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Brent and I were chatting about the proliferation of courses, groups and courses out there for real estate investing and realized that there’s a lack of education that uses real properties. What we’ve come up with is essentially a mini-field trip, giving people a chance to get together, go look at some currently listed properties [...]

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Don Campbell on Fixed vs. Variable Mortgage Rates

June 8, 2010 Financing

There’s been some great material at the last few REIN meetings about mortgages, particularly timely given the Bank of Canada’s decision to raise prime. Don Campbell was on BNN, CBC, Alberta Primetime and a couple others talking about the best way to approach the coming rate hikes. Watch the video or scroll under to get [...]

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A Double Dose of the Song of the Week from Mother Mother

June 4, 2010 Song of the Week

This has been a brilliant week for me and I only wish time would slow down and give me more hours in each day. To celebrate I’m doubling up on the SOW, with two rockin’ tracks from Vancouver based Mother Mother. They did a session in LA for Luxury Wafters. I think these cuts are [...]

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How To Buy A House In 30 Minutes

June 3, 2010 Real Estate
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15 years learning by watching 4 years building relationships 2 years buying my own stuff Which leads to the experience of getting an email, making two phone calls and calling the seller back within 30 minutes of their email to say, “we’ll take it!” I don’t advocate buying property sight unseen, and after I gave [...]

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Your Dream Real Estate Investment

June 1, 2010 Real Estate
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Whenever I talk with new real estate investors I ask them about what type of property they’re going to focus on. Most of them haven’t thought about it at all. A few want to go crazy with basement suites or rooming houses (dreaming of the extra cashflow). And if someone actually has a couple properties [...]

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