by REM Editorial Team | Jan 21, 2008 | Guest Columns
By Dan White I have done a lot of things in my life and selling real estate is just one of them. What I am going to share is a formula that worked so well for me, that it became a lifestyle problem and drove me out of the business of selling houses. I have had a...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 26, 2007 | Guest Columns
By Jamie MacMaster Ah, late summer in rural Ontario. As we contend with the hordes of circling deer flies, pests of a different sort are meeting in air-conditioned rooms to decide what form of miseries they will inflict upon us in the...
by REM Editorial Team | May 29, 2007 | Guest Columns
By Ron Rossini Many buyers divide the renovation tasks of a newly acquired home into remodeling the interior of their house and the exterior landscape. Choices a homeowner makes to develop a personally satisfactory landscape can affect resale potential. There are...
by REM Editorial Team | Apr 12, 2007 | Guest Columns
By Jamie MacMaster There is a smug ambivalence that strikes us country-folk when a government action targets our neighbours but leaves us alone. For example, if a local government re-jigs its Official Plan to adhere to the dictates of Ontario’s Provincial Policy...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 19, 2007 | Guest Columns
By Brian Hirtle A listing is born! We have all been there for that magic moment when it all begins. The listing is initialed and signed by all parties and the true copies are given to the sellers (got to love those rules and regulations). Then there is the moment...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 5, 2007 | Guest Columns
By James MacMaster The just-before-Christmas National Post headline, Rural Canada in Crisis was an eye-catcher, if for no other reason than the word “rural” so seldom graces any of the cover sheets of our major dailies. A Senate Committee had just released an...
