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Lessons from Ted Rogers for Real Estate Investors

July 22, 2009 Books

Lately I’ve been reading voraciously. I read Freakonomics in 2 days, right now I’m  re-reading the gentrification bible The Death and Life of Great American cities and on the weekend I just finished reading Ted Rogers autobiography. Ted Rogers was a real action taker and I found some principles that we could apply as real [...]

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Employment Diversity After a Recession

July 12, 2009 Economic Fundamentals

This recession has shown us the power of investing in towns with a diverse employment base because the impact it has on rents, vacancies and prices of real estate. Towns like Windsor are getting hit hard because of Chrysler’s woes and there is very little real estate investors who own in the city could do [...]

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Do You Drink the REIN Kool-Aid?

June 29, 2009 For REIN Members

Man I had blast this weekend at get A.L.I.F.E. workshop. The Western Canadian REIN members are so amazing, getting to know a lot of you was absolutely inspiring. The idea for this blog came to me talking to some rookie Ontario REIN members while at get A.L.I.F.E. this weekend. I was in line to get [...]

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Latest Property Goldmine Factors

June 18, 2009 Economic Fundamentals

Chris inspired me to put this together with his previous post. Here is the latest data that REIN Members look at when we study a real estate market. RBC’s Affordability Index measures the amount of pre-tax income that goes towards housing for the average person in the region it’s studying. Affordability = Avg Mortgage (with [...]

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Response to Problem Tenants in Ontario

June 16, 2009 Guest Blog Posts

That is brutal! Why and how are these laws made? Is it because tenants have been making more noise over the years to the MLAs? -Jerry Thanks for the comment Jerry… I mulled over your question while working throughout the day and had a moment of inspiration…I really should be preparing for a presentation but [...]

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Problem Tenants In Ontario

June 15, 2009 Guest Blog Posts

It’s such a pleasure guest blogging for Chris. I’m grateful for this opportunity to provide his readers with some real value. For my first post, I wanted to give you a taste on what it’s like managing properties in Ontario. The Landlord Tenant Board is a regulation nightmare for Ontario real estate investors. One wrong [...]

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What will Alberta be like in 2010 for Real Estate?

April 25, 2008 Alberta

Editor’s Note: There’s been a lot of news lately since BMO declared "Canada’s six-year housing market boom is officially over".  Today’s guest post is from Thomas Beyer, the President of Prestigious Properties Group and a REIN member. He originally posted this on the myREINspace forums and kindly consented to share his vision. Here it is, [...]

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