A few weeks ago, I wrote about secret Realtor codewords. Flash forward to today, and I’m in Oxford, England, visiting with friends and exploring the countryside. I’m also learning about some real estate terms that are used here. My favourite by far is gazumping. Just savour that word for a
I’ve worked with some clients this year on the rental side of housing – both landlords renting out their properties as well as tenants looking for a place to rent. A few things struck me in my interactions.
Let me rephrase that. There is nothing worse than the feeling of forgetting to do something you really should have done. That slowly dawning realization when you look at the date and your brain finally wakes up to the fact that there was something about today. Something you had to
I like a lot of aspects of working in real estate, but if you asked me to narrow it down to my favourites, I would have to say that there are two really great things about my job. The first is that I get to meet great people. People I
It’s Oakville. I was going to do a big build up and tell you at the end of the post, but it’s Friday, it’s lovely out and if you came to my site, you deserve the immediate answer. Now that you have that little dopamine hit from getting immediate gratification,
In late May, 2016, MPAC started sending out their 2016 Property Assessment Notices. These lovely documents provide an assessed value for your property, based on a secret formula developed by MPAC scientists in a bunker in the wilds of Northern Ontario. That might be a bit of an exaggeration. Truth
Working day in and day out in real estate has its positives and negatives. Often these come as the flip side of the same experience. Here’s what I mean. I get to meet many new and interesting people as I help clients buy and sell properties and any phone call
I’m going to admit right off the bat that I’ve been watching a lot of episodes of the TV show Mad Men lately. Whenever I watch a lot of a particular show or read a particular book series, it tends to influence how I view the world for a brief
There are no shortage of green topics these days. Whether it is marijuana legalization or the explosive growth of medical marijuana dispensaries in Ontario over the last year, we see lots of news stories about marijuana and the money in play. I recently rented out a commercial space to
