by Marty Douglas | Apr 25, 2018 | Featured
Did you always want to be a fireman? If so, it may explain why you are thinking about becoming a managing broker in a real estate office. The reality is, most managers arrive by circumstance, in the wrong place at the right time. Given a career choice of earning six...
by Marty Douglas | Apr 24, 2017 | Featured
Cards on the table. I was born in 1945, first licensed in real estate in British Columbia in 1970, qualified in the ’70s as a branch manager, as an agent or nominee as we were then called in the ’80s and I continue to be licensed under the current nomenclature as a...
by Marty Douglas | May 31, 2016 | Featured
In the distant past, somewhere around the birth of rock and roll, Colonel T.G. Norris QC filed his report on real estate business in British Columbia following years of effort by the industry to establish the profession via a structure grounded in legislation – the...
by Marty Douglas | Oct 9, 2015 | News
“It all started in a 5,000-watt radio station in Fresno, California. With just a $50-a-week pay cheque and a dream.” – Ted Baxter. “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away . . .” Glad you asked. My REM writing experience began in December 1994 with an opinion piece...
by Marty Douglas | Aug 27, 2015 | Featured
The penultimate column. No, I’m fine thank you, health wise. In general terms, when asked, I refer to my physical condition as “old and fat” rather than attempt attribution to some new age plague or senior symptom of the month. Besides, most people asking, “How are...
