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Edmonton Real Estate Price History – Updated!

February 15, 2012 Statistics
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By popular request I’ve updated my spreadsheet with Edmonton Real Estate prices up to January 2012. The historical data goes all the way back to 1962 and the original post has been one of the most popular on my blog for three years running (2009, 2010 – 2011 is on the way). Like always, you [...]

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9 Fairly Obvious Ways to Prevent Year-End Real Estate Chaos

December 20, 2011 Property Management
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1. Visit your properties This is usually a no-brainer, but it’s easy to get into a groove where the cheques show up and you don’t get out to check on something that appears to be working fine. If nothing else, this is a great chance to drop off a Christmas card and gift (see #5 [...]

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Why Experts Take Classes in Expertness

November 9, 2011 Marketing
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This week Brent and I are spending three days at a course in Calgary learning about marketing. Folks tend to think of me as a marketing expert, and I do have a pretty decent amount of experience in the field. There’s a couple people who were wondering why I’m taking three days away from work [...]

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10 Real Life #YEG Properties Meet the Zoopraisal™ Value Calculator

November 2, 2011 Real Estate
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There’s been some news recently about the online advertising site Zoocasa releasing a Zillow-like online real estate value calculator for Canadian real estate. To accomplish this, Zoocasa went and bought access to Brookfield’s Centra system. They do a lot of appraisals, primarily in eastern Canada, and I’ve heard they gave Zoocasa access to 4-5 million [...]

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12 Cash-Flow Assumptions You Haven’t Thought of Yet

October 24, 2011 Buying
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Last weekend Brent and I attended one of the Real Estate Investment Networks’ ACRES weekends. It’s always a good refresher weekend and the people I meet there always amaze and inspire me. We often take out a booth to share our listings and our services as REALTORS®. However, since Brent joined me this July, we’ve [...]

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Eat, Learn, Move – A Man’s Guide to Eat, Pray, Love

August 18, 2011 Cool Websites

One of my favorite time-wasting ‘relax’ websites is a video aggregator blog called Devour. I take no responsibility for the ensuing addiction if you click that link. Today they posted one of three short films I had to share with you. They’ve done a Man’s version of the popular book Eat, Pray, Love. My wife [...]

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Making Multiple Mistakes Multiply – Advice for Buyers

August 17, 2011 Buying
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I’ve been in several multiple offer situations this year and learned of several interesting situations that other REALTORS® have experienced. First, someone had a great question on myREINspace about how you know if there’s another offer on the table. As an agent we’re required to disclose when there’s another offer. That said, an offer isn’t [...]

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