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This Week – Tom Brokaw Explains Canada To Americans

March 5, 2010

I wanted to post this sooner, but NBC is stupid and removed the original video which managed several million views in just a few days. It’s really worth going to YouTube and watching it in HD.
Enjoy your weekend, and feel proud to be Canadian. I’m planning on writing offers on some properties this coming week, [...]

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The Road to Rich Dad and Other Scams

January 29, 2010

Robert Kiyosaki, Darren Weeks and a bunch of other idiots are about to get a smacking they deserve.
Marketplace is doing a spot tonight on their look at the Canadian Rich Dad Seminars. There’s an accompanying article on the CBC website here about why they’re calling Rich Dad Seminars ‘deceptive’.
I’ve made myself pretty clear [...]

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Internet Marketing Tips- A REIN Interview With an Expert

January 14, 2010

Russell Westcott, the VP of the Real Estate Investment Network, asked me to swing by their offices in the Lower Mainland last time I was in Vancouver, and we had a great chat. Part of that chat took the form of a REIN Interview with an Expert on the topic of internet marketing.
Russell and the [...]

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Talk is Cheap – Fear is Abundant

December 22, 2009

One thing I’ve been able to do quite a bit of lately is catch up on some great blogs, but there’s also some real stinkers out there. Some of the negative/bad/bubble blogs are important for me to read because they bring up the questions I have to answer from potential investors, but there’s often an [...]

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Four Steps for Better Real Estate Investing

December 9, 2009
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This is the time of year when people should be gearing up to start buying properties, and it’s also full of New Year’s resolutions. The whole month of December is like that for me, because I’m preparing to return to Canada. This means it’s time for me to get my house in order and to [...]

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Magnetic Photography In The Post

November 16, 2009
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It’s always nice to get mail, and it was particularly nice to get this big package in the mail. It’s a copy of Magnetic Real Estate Photography by Carla Johnson, a REIN member from Ontario.
I’m looking forward to reading it, both because I like taking photos and because I’m often entertained by the horrible photos [...]

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Gregory Klump and the Canadian Real Estate Market Forecast

October 26, 2009

This video is part of REIN’s Video Insider newsletter, and here’s some of my notes, plus the video.
Gregory Klump is:
- Chief Economist for the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA)
- Senior Consultant with CREA and CMHC
- Contributor to the Economic Research Committee
This is the 2010 Market Forecast and the 2010 Canadian Economic Forecast part of the [...]

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Committed to a Cause

August 1, 2009

Yesterday I was passing through the Vancouver area and I made time to meet up with Russell Westcott.
For those who haven’t met him before, he’s the Vice President of the Real Estate Investment Network. The REIN members will know him as the MC of most of the meetings and the resident Joint Venture expert. He’s [...]

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