by REM Editorial Team | Nov 8, 2010 | Featured, Guest Columns
By Ari Lahdekorpi It seems that every few years someone comes along with a concept or a business model to improve on the tried and true compensation method that has worked best for the real estate industry over the last hundred years. The means of compensation paid...
by REM Editorial Team | Jul 28, 2010 | Guest Columns
By Ari Lahdekorpi Albert Einstein died in 1955, having seen his concepts create a new world of understanding during his life. His passing was at a time when the cold war between the Soviets and the Americans was escalating. Much of the worry of that year and the...
by Debbie Hanlon | Jun 4, 2010 | Advice for Agents, Guest Columns
By Debbie Hanlon When I started out in real estate I was 28-years-old. I was the single mother of three young children, living on social assistance, and I didn’t even own a car at the time. Yet within a year I was the top agent in my home province. Within a year I was...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 4, 2010 | Guest Columns
By Ari Lahdekorpi Epigenetics is the study of the material that surrounds and encases our genes. (“Epi” is from the ancient Greek word that means ‘above’ or ‘over’, hence the term epigenetics). In recent years there have been some interesting findings regarding this...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 3, 2010 | Advice for Agents, Featured, Guest Columns
By John Polito It’s early in 2010 and real estate managers are once again dusting off that old chestnut, “You can’t be a success without goals.” They must be right because all the best-selling self-help book authors are singing the same song. There is no other way, so...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 28, 2010 | Guest Columns
By Jamie MacMaster As Napoleon entered Moscow in the fall of 1812, Czar Alexander and his commanders were discussing just when and where they should stand their ground. A pessimistic Russian field marshal noted the splendid successes of the Grand Armeé and speculated...
