by Susan Doran | Apr 8, 2021 | Featured, Profiles
“I can negotiate anything. That’s my forté,” says Realtor Linda Pinizzotto. “I’m a very determined person.” I can’t dispute this, especially after I initially doggedly attempted to convince both myself and Pinizzotto that my interview with her for this article needed...
by Susan Doran | Mar 1, 2021 | Featured, Profiles
Marie-Yvonne Paint’s background story is like something you’d see on the Netflix series Selling Sunset. Except she’s not selling real estate in glitzy Los Angeles, but rather in the wealthiest neighbourhoods of Montreal. At only 4′11″, Paint, described in a newspaper...
by Susan Doran | Feb 8, 2021 | Featured, Profiles
Asked the secrets regarding what keeps a family-run venture alive and kicking for 50 years through three generations, Donna Gardiner Thompson, owner of Gardiner Realty in Fredericton, replies, “There are none.” It comes down to remembering the values you “learned in...
by Susan Doran | Jan 19, 2021 | Featured, Profiles
I know what it means when someone tells you they’re going to call you at 10:01 a.m. and then does it, on the dot. “You’re a bit OCD,” I suggest to Ontario Realtor Sam Cuda, who had a record year in 2020, pandemic notwithstanding. “I am totally OCD,” he responds,...
by Susan Doran | Oct 26, 2020 | Featured, Profiles
Many of us resist taking on new challenges in this bizarre COVID-19 year. But not Lisa Patel, the president of the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB). Patel chooses to find it “interesting” that her role as 2020/2021 president has come about in these...
