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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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Trees on Twitter – Doing it Right!

May 16, 2009 Property Management

Got a business? Got a need? Ever wondered how either group of people would use Twitter is a positive productive way? Here’s a great example thanks to Davey Tree, presented in pictures (Full text below the ‘more’ tag) @wburris @w_chris_davies @DaveyTree

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Don’t rent out a new home…or blog about it either

October 23, 2008 Property Management

I was going to write a post giving some kudos to Sara MacLennan’s great post about the hazards of renting out a new house. I went and re-read the post. But then I got distracted by the giant string of comments. Holy crap.  What is it about real estate that makes people act like fools?  [...]

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Property Mangement Rocks

October 20, 2008 Property Management

No, I’m not saying that property management rocks. In fact it quite often sucks. What I’m saying is that there are rocks (noun) for property management, and for everything you do in life. There’s a great video of Stephen Covey putting rocks, sand a pebbles into a jar. The only way it’s all going to [...]

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Landlords don’t have to accept cash

September 4, 2008 Property Management

In Canada you don’t have to accept cash, or any method of payment you don’t want to. For me, being a landlord, this is handy. About every two years we get a new wave of creative counterfeiting coming through. We also had a caretaker start stealing from us. (I’ll post the story of how we [...]

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Advertising for Your Edmonton Rentals – Week 1

July 3, 2008 Property Management

In March of this year, the rental market was slow in Edmonton, and we tried a few experiments to help pick up the pace. Over the course of one month, we started playing with our advertising to fine tune it. Internet sites change quickly, and what worked last year was not working this year. The [...]

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Where to Advertise your Properties (and some traffic tips)

June 14, 2008 Property Management

I was at a REIN coffee meeting in Kelowna and we had a good chat about places to advertise our vacancies in Kelowna. After the discussion, and to save everyone from trying to write down a whole bunch of websites I’m posting a list (Edmonton, Kelowna, and Everywhere). I’ll come back to this list from [...]

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