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8 Tips for Recession Proofing Your Real Estate Business Model

January 26, 2009 Business

[Ed Note: Today's Guest Post comes for Garth Chapman, a Diamond REIN member and the co-founder of REMA, a Real Estate Management and Analysis software. (Not so shameless plug: I use it!)] This has been our approach to making sure our estate business prospers going forward. We’re always trying to answer the question: What are [...]

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Cheerful Alberta News

November 18, 2008 Alberta

It’s the middle of a recession in that country to the south of us. Things are a little unsettled globally speaking. Buth Jeff Sutherland, reminded us all of some cheerful headlines.  In the midst of global economic confusion: Did you know Alberta has a $15.8 BILLION rainy day fund?  Did you know Alberta will NOT be [...]

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Credit Liquidity is the Problem

October 30, 2008 The Economy

The real driver (such as it is) of the current American and global recession is the lack of available credit. It was Benjamin Tal from CIBC who pointed out that Ben Bernanke, the chariman  of the US Federal Reserve is a student of the Great Depression. His diagnosis, (via Ben Tal, which I agree with), [...]

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Canada’s Real Estate Market Won’t Meltdown

October 4, 2008 The Economy

Benjamin Tal, who I’ve discussed before after his July 2008 presentation on the state of the Canadian and US economies to the Real Estate Investment Network, was finally quoted in some good context in a CBC article. (Hat tip to Gary McGowan and Don Campbell on myREINspace) It’s nice when the mainstream media publishes something [...]

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Banks tighter than a duck’s ass

September 28, 2008 The Economy

So, unless you’re dead, you’ve been reading about the stock market crash and the death of AIG; the explosion of WaMu (Washington Mutual) and Congresses’ $700 billion bailout. The real issue right now isn’t what happened; it’s what can’t happen going forward. All this has caused the entire finance industry to pucker tighter than ducks [...]

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Real Estate Summber BBQ Topics

September 22, 2008 The Economy

Although he doesn’t blog that often, Don Campbell usually write pretty good stuff. One post from the beginning of August was about four hot topics around real estate, and I thought I’d add my thoughts. #1 Zero-Down Mortgages and 40-Year Amortizations I mentioned it just this week, that the few banks offering 40-year amortizations were [...]

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