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Happy Easter – Christ is Risen

April 22, 2011 Song of the Week

It’s one of my favorite weekends of the year and I’m stoked for the Saturday night Easter Vigil. One of the most beautiful liturgies in the Church, and the one where I was confirmed and became a full member of the Catholic Church 5 years ago. I hope you spend the weekend with your friends, [...]

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ReWork – The New Reality

April 19, 2011 Business

The basic idea Freid and Hansson bring up here is that the barriers to entry for starting a business are lower than ever before. Today anyone can be in business. Tools that can be out of reach are now easily accessible. Technology that cost thousands is now just a few bucks or even free. One [...]

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REWORK- An Introduction

April 17, 2011 Business
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We need to change the way we think about doing business in Real Estate. I’ve met dozens of real estate agents and investors who make great money and appear to be very successful. There’s a lot of the same people who work 60 hour weeks, never see their (now ex-) spouses or children and are [...]

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RE/WORK- Rewriting How I Do Business

March 24, 2011 Books
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I became licensed as a REALTOR® at the end of November. I got some systems set up in December and wrote handwritten cards to over a hundred of my friends and associates, then took the second half of December and first half of January off for the birth of my son. Since getting going it took [...]

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Evicting Tenants in Alberta

February 14, 2011 Property Management

First, thanks to Chris for allowing me a guest post. I am a fellow Real Estate investor and spent seven years with REIN, so I really appreciate many of his insights in his posts. This particular post is actually in regards to a post by Brian Persaud quite a few months ago in regards to [...]

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Lemonade from Braids

February 11, 2011 Song of the Week

By which I mean this is the song Lemonade from the band Braids. Now that I’ve posted a couple times I feel it’s time to break things up with a song of the week. Having a baby in the house and being a busy new Realtor has reduced the amount of time I have to [...]

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RE/MAX Edmonton Real Estate Barometer – Feb 2011

February 10, 2011 Statistics
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Kudos to the RE/MAX Canada head offices for getting their social media act together and getting some videos out there. The RE/MAX housing barometer measures the sales-to-listings ratio for major centers since the turn of the millenia (January 2000) and provides a bit of commentary. I’m posting the Edmonton, Calgary and Kelowna ones. Edmonton and [...]

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