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9 Fairly Obvious Ways to Prevent Year-End Real Estate Chaos

December 20, 2011 Property Management
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1. Visit your properties This is usually a no-brainer, but it’s easy to get into a groove where the cheques show up and you don’t get out to check on something that appears to be working fine. If nothing else, this is a great chance to drop off a Christmas card and gift (see #5 [...]

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12 Cash-Flow Assumptions You Haven’t Thought of Yet

October 24, 2011 Buying
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Last weekend Brent and I attended one of the Real Estate Investment Networks’ ACRES weekends. It’s always a good refresher weekend and the people I meet there always amaze and inspire me. We often take out a booth to share our listings and our services as REALTORS®. However, since Brent joined me this July, we’ve [...]

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Making Multiple Mistakes Multiply – Advice for Buyers

August 17, 2011 Buying
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I’ve been in several multiple offer situations this year and learned of several interesting situations that other REALTORS® have experienced. First, someone had a great question on myREINspace about how you know if there’s another offer on the table. As an agent we’re required to disclose when there’s another offer. That said, an offer isn’t [...]

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Can I have the trampoline too?

August 8, 2011 Buying
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That’s a picture of one of my clients enjoying her new (to her) trampoline. It cost just a little over $300,000. Included with the trampoline was a very nicely renovated and maintained 1,200 sq ft bi-level in St Albert. Usually when you buy a house the offer to purchase has space for two types of chattels [...]

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Edmonton Rental Market Survey – June/July 2011

July 26, 2011 Property Management
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Things have started moving a little more quickly in the Edmonton rental market this spring. Incentives have almost totally disappeared, and many Property Mangers and investors have said they’re starting to test the waters, moving rents up by $50-200/unit. Vacancy is down more, slightly below 4% according to Colliers, and things are (usually) renting quickly. [...]

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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/MAX 2011 Housing Outlook

December 8, 2010 Statistics
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The RE/MAX 2011 Housing Outlook is just out, and there’s some interesting ideas in there. Not everyone agrees (including the Edmonton Real Estate Board, whose 2011 Forecast comes out next month, watch for the live blog). Rather than just write a bunch of blog posts, I’m creating a resources section. There’s already a page there [...]

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