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Dealing with listing situations

Situation: You enter a listing prospect’s home and they immediately insist on knowing how much you charge, how much you will list the home for or how you will advertise the home. If you answer their questions right away, they are in control and you are being...

Test your eco smarts with this quiz

You call yourself a tree hugger, perhaps a green activist or super saver of the world, but how well do you really understand eco-issues concerning the planet? Often it’s not until we compare our knowledge to someone else that we realize how little or how much we...

Marty Douglas: The FINTRAC charade

February – when every young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of, “How can I escape this dreary winter?” Then I opened an email from my real estate board. There, buried between the President’s Message – yawn – and the 2013 Sales and Summary Stats was an important update...

Court rules commission must be paid

By Bob Aaron A ruling of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in December makes it clear that a seller is responsible for paying commission to the real estate agent if a full price offer is presented, whether or not the offer is accepted. Back in September 2008,...