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32 Amazing Real Estate, Investing and Economics Blogs I Read

November 16, 2009
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32 Real Estate, Investing and Economics Blogs I Read
Here you go, straight out of my RSS reader. These are 32 of the blogs I follow via RSS. If you’re a new real estate investor and you’re looking for reading material this should let you get started.

Alberta Bubble – Every investor should follow a bubble blog [...]

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Time to Renovate!

September 20, 2009

It’s been almost two years since I started this blog, and it’s high time for a redesign!
If you’re a regular reader (or get my email updates or RSS) you may notice things changing quite a bit over the next week or two. If you see something you like or dislike, please leave a comment. If [...]

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The Domain Registry Of Canada – 100% Scam and a Bag of Chips

June 5, 2009

About every three months I get a letter from a company that calls itself the Domain Registry of Canada. It looks like an invoice, knows my name and a couple of the (many) domain names I own. They ask me to pay $40 per year to renew my domain name registration.
For the love of all [...]

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Google Your Email, Calendars, To Do Lists and More!

May 14, 2009

I love Google. The company, the search engine, their campus and their other products. 

They also throw a heck of a party. I got to attend one at the GooglePlex last summer. Here’s a video.

Anyways, the point of this post is that Google’s got a solution for almost every problem. About the only thing I don’t [...]

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It’s #REINing on Twitter

March 25, 2009

More and more people are finding out about Twitter, and recently a whole bunch of REIN members (and associated people) jumped on the bandwagon. Kudos go out to Chris Mewhort for starting a great thread on myREINspace on the topic.
First, what is Twitter? Think of it like text messages on your cell phone crossed with [...]

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Mike Rowe on Hard Work and Dirty Jobs

March 7, 2009

Last night I caught a great talk by Mike Rowe on Ted.com.  First, if you haven’t heard about TED, you need to go check it out. Some of the most amazing people on the entire planet speak there, and watching their talks is like crack. Watch one good one and you’ll be completely addicted. (Or [...]

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Why We Drink – Fun with Visual Stories

November 12, 2008

I was in a bar in San Jose when I caught this video on the TV. I couldn’t hear the Audio, but I still understood exactly what was going on. THis is a completely remarkable way of presenting information. THis is the full version of what I saw, which was then called “Why We Drink”. 
It’s [...]

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Moving charts for Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto

October 12, 2008

To understand the future of real estate, it’s important to understand it’s past. This usually means lots and lots of graphs and charts. Here I’ve used Google Doc’s Motion Charts (ex. Gapminder) to show some metrics for three cities: Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto. It’s broken down by year, and the metrics are average price, GDP [...]

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