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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

MPAC says I’m rich! Hold on..how much are my taxes now?

2018-02-27T12:20:51-05:00June 10th, 2016|

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 recommending this building for investors.

2018-02-27T12:20:51-05:00June 3rd, 2016|

I was having a conversation the other day with Drake, and he was quite surprised when I told him that forget about the six, the five is where it really is these days. Full disclosure, Drake is the nickname I have given one of Diane’s fish in her aquarium.  Fuller

The 905 is catching up!

2018-02-27T12:20:52-05:00May 20th, 2016|

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

How to sound smart at your next cocktail party.

2018-02-27T12:20:52-05:00April 29th, 2016|

  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

Green is worth green.

2018-02-27T12:20:52-05:00April 22nd, 2016|

When Diane and I sold our last house a few years ago, I was surprised to find that a lot of potential buyers spent the majority of their time in the basement. It was unfinished, had a pretty low ceiling and contained what appeared to the remnants of a lost

Sit down and let me predict…your future!

2018-02-27T12:20:52-05:00April 8th, 2016|

First off, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. Secondly, this isn’t the start of me providing you with really bad advice.  I will not be following this up with comments about how car insurance is for suckers, or suggesting an all cheeseburger diet. (Mental note – drive to get cheeseburgers

You should always have a mortgage.

2018-02-27T12:20:52-05:00April 1st, 2016|

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