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How To Pick A Edmonton Real Estate Brokerage

November 8, 2010 Realtor
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I’m starting my hunt for the right brokerage for me to work with. Picking a real estate brokerage is even more complex than picking a realtor when you’re going out to buy a property because I’ll likely be tied to them for at least a year or two. Some brokerages take as much as half [...]

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Mortgage Default Rates and Assumables

September 16, 2010 Real Estate
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Sara had a great post over at the Edmonton Real Estate Blog about Mario Toneguzzi’s article Mortgage arrears soar in Alberta. What made the post really fantastic was the discussion (still ongoing three days later) which followed in the comments. I pointed out that one thing which is likely contributing to higher arrears is the [...]

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6 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About CMHC’s Alberta Rental Market Report

June 16, 2010 Statistics
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CMHC (the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation) is one of the few organizations with the resources to publish meaningful and comprehensive statistics on regional real estate. Their Spring 2010 Rental Market Report came out the other day (you can the Alberta Highlights here, PDF, opens in a new window) and it makes for interesting, if dry, reading. [...]

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22 Photos of A Calgary Roadtrip

May 31, 2010 Personal
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Megan and I took our long weekend and decided to hit the road to Cowtown and points south. Here’s a smattering of pictures from our trip and our visit to Heritage Park. Southbound! Spring means newly planted fields and lots of sky. It’s something that I missed when we lived in BC and Ireland. Me [...]

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30 Days Might Mean 60 Days

October 23, 2009 Law
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One of the most important things you do as the manager of a rental property is communicate with the tenants. For things like rental increases, evictions, major repairs and the sale of a property you have to serve official notice, and you must follow the notice periods laid out in the Residential Tenancies Act. The [...]

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Five Ways To Get Screwed By Tenants

October 15, 2009 Property Management
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There’s no excuse for a real estate investor not to know the Law. In Alberta you can read it for free online, download it or get it shipped to you for anywhere between $2 and $6. In Alberta there’s five documents you need to be aware of, the Residential Tenancies Act (the RTA) and four [...]

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Alberta Transportation High Speed Rail Report

July 7, 2009 Alberta

There were two mentions of the Alberta Goverment’s High Speed Rail Report on myREINspace yesterday. You can read the official goverment press release here: July 6, 2009 Alberta government releases report on high-speed rail Edmonton… The Alberta government has released a report on a market assessment study of potential high-speed rail service in the Calgary-Edmonton [...]

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