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Bring Free Public WiFi to Edmonton

September 24, 2008 Cool Websites

I learn a lot of things from being a Twitter user and having a job that allows me time to pay attention to it. @brocksky works at YellowPencil who happens to be doing the redesign for the City of Edmonton. It went live just the other day. Here’s a picture of the tweet. It seems [...]

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Creating Maps with Rental Data

September 19, 2008 Cool Websites

This guest post was kindly contributed by QMan, a REIN member and educator. You’re sure to see more from him in the future. – Chris The Challenge One of the challenges I face is trying to identify the going rents for a given pocket of a particular community before we make our purchases to help [...]

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Interactive Maps of Edmonton and Red Deer

September 18, 2008 Cool Websites

Dean Leischer and Dan Eisenhauer posted a couple of links on REINspace that I thought I should share. The City of Red Deer posted an interactive map that’s worth checking out. It’s an interesting way to see zoning information and several other layers of relevant data. Dan Eisenhauer pointed out the City of Edmonton’s Maps [...]

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More Fun with Stats- Monthly Edmonton Statistics

July 24, 2008 Cool Websites

People seemed to like the numbers and fun spreadsheet from last time. I use Google Finance to track my stocks, so I’m familiar with this type of sliding chart. This one has the full set of monthly Edmonton house prices, as reported by EREB. Really, it’s just another fun toy, which you can also find [...]

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Make Your Real Estate Office Forest Friendly

April 9, 2008 Alberta

 Editor’s Note: Today is the second of a series of guest posts. I’ve invited several people in the real estate and property management communities to contribute and Today’s is from Kevin Ablett, a Realtor from Calgary and a REIN member. This post was originally shared on the REINspace forums, and Kevin kindly offered to share [...]

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Pro-active landlording for your real estate?

April 6, 2008 Cool Websites

Todd Spetter from the REIN website shared this video about proactive landlording….and the caretaker isn’t exactly what I’d call a proactive landlord.   The Landlord on FunnyOrDie.com   Pretty darn funny though.  

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Six Steps to Finding Cashflow Creek (and two bonus steps)

February 25, 2008 Alberta

The secret to investing in Real Estate is Cash Flow. If you get some cash out each month/quarter, you’ll be able to continue to invest. If not, you’ll be stuck nursing along your one property and never make any progress towards your own personal Belize. Because I hear and read a lot of new investors [...]

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