by REM Editorial Team | Nov 1, 2003 | Guest Columns
BY JIM HAZZARD How do you finance the purchase of rural or agricultural properties? Here’s a horror story about the insensitivity of our financial institutions. The buyer and his partner decide they want to move from downtown Toronto to develop a...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 1, 2002 | Guest Columns
BY RICHARD FORSTER A recent REM column suggested that real estate should be unbundled in this age of the empowered consumer. Consumers want a new deal in the 21st century. Many new business models rooted, blossomed, and became compost in the dot-com meltdown of...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 1, 2002 | Guest Columns
BY ARI LAHDEKORPI The other day I was chatting with a buddy about some of the changes that were occurring at a local business that is “right‑sizing”. This corporation needed to trim itself up to meet new fiscal realities. The topic of our discussion revolved...
by REM Editorial Team | May 1, 2002 | Guest Columns
BY GLENN TEMES When associations review associations, isn’t it interesting how they find that the association needs to do more? Maybe it is time we tell our associations to undertake a real core review and to cut everything that isn’t absolutely necessary....
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 1, 2002 | Guest Columns
BY CALVIN R. LINDBERG Like the Kennedy assassination, “Where were you on September 11?” is a question that will be asked for decades to come. We will instantly recall where we were and what we were doing as if it had happened yesterday....
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 1, 2002 | Guest Columns
BY ALEX SZINEGH During my travels across North America I have been asked many times, “Why do winners win?” I have some opinions about this subject. Try this one on for size. I think there are three things everyone needs to be successful at anything:...
