by Kelly Putter | Aug 22, 2017 | Featured, News
As a self-described serial renter, Andy Stark thought home ownership was a tad out of reach for his family of four in the tony Leslieville neighbourhood of Toronto he currently calls home. The 53-year-old George Brown College instructor had been thinking of taking the...
by Kelly Putter | May 3, 2017 | Featured, Profiles
Whole adult lives are spent building sales careers and the real estate industry is no exception. That right combination of knowing how to forge relationships, form loyalties, problem solve, structure alliances, shape your reputation, hustle, toil against adversity,...
by Kelly Putter | Feb 22, 2017 | Featured, Good Works, Profiles
The word ‘extreme’ is thrown around a lot these days. There are extreme sports, extreme cheapskates and extreme home makeovers. There’s even extreme zip lining, yoga and pitas. This is the story of fundraising examples that could easily fall under the extreme category...
by Kelly Putter | Nov 22, 2016 | Featured, Profiles
You can tell Sally McGarr enjoys telling the story about how at 40 weeks’ pregnant she presented an offer to clients on a beautiful evening in 1991. A few hours later in the early morning hours of May 22, she gave birth to her youngest daughter Raiana. She phoned her...
by Kelly Putter | Apr 7, 2015 | Featured, Profiles
Jane Hoffman has lived her life largely within a six-hour curve that includes a snowy ski resort town and the bright lights of Vancouver, but something about Kelowna keeps drawing her to the water’s edge. Call it the lake effect minus all the negative meteorological...
