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Six Shockingly Simple Tips to Prevent Rental Fraud

August 25, 2010
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There’s a scam that comes around every few years. You put an ad up for one of your units. Someone copies it, drops the price and ends up suckering someone out of a damage deposit or a month’s rent and running away. It’s the oldest trick in the book – sell something you don’t own. [...]

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The Top Calgary Rental Websites – Spring 2010

April 30, 2010
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Here is the latest edition of the Calgary rental website ranking report. Like the other reports I’ve released this week, you can find full background and the Winter data in the last edition of the rankings. There’s been a few small changes that I’ll talk about in a future post, but for now, here’s your [...]

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Ranking Reports – You Decide!

November 26, 2009
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The two rental website ranking reports we’ve done have been big hits, and I’ve had requests for more from landlords big and small (and also from a couple of the websites in question). There’s a lot of cities and towns to choose from, and I have my own ideas of what people want. However, the [...]

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The Top Ontario Rental Websites – Fall 2009

October 30, 2009
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Advertising your vacancies on the right sites will save you time and money. What many real estate investors fail to realize is that between your property and the tenant comes an advertisement. The missing link is how they find your ads, and the answer is: This whitepaper does the heavy lifting for you if you’re [...]

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Canadian Internet Marketing Resources

June 26, 2009

I gave a talk about marketing for Canadian real estate investors this week, focusing on internet marketing. Given that I work as an SEO, it’s a topic I know a bit about, so combining internet marketing and real estate investing was a pretty good fit. Here are some of the resources I promised people. Canadian [...]

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Internet Marketing for Real Estate Investors

June 11, 2009

I’ve been asked to speak for a group of investors about marketing. Internet marketing is how I make my day-to-day living, so that’s obviously going to be a big part of that. I have a decent amount of property management experience, so I’ll work from that angle as well. What do you think think are [...]

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The Domain Registry Of Canada – 100% Scam and a Bag of Chips

June 5, 2009

About every three months I get a letter from a company that calls itself the Domain Registry of Canada. It looks like an invoice, knows my name and a couple of the (many) domain names I own. They ask me to pay $40 per year to renew my domain name registration. For the love of [...]

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Speaking of Edmonton’s Black Triangle….

April 12, 2009

I’m going to be speaking at Rod O’Keefe’s investment club, the Okanagan Millionaire Real Estate Investment Club (or OMREIC, what a name :p), this coming Tuesday night about the realities of investing in Edmonton. I’ll cover the Black Triangle, some good areas, remote-managing and professional property managers. The event is free, just show up and [...]

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