by REM Editorial Team | Jun 15, 2011 | Letters to the Editor
Melanie Aitken, commissioner of Canada’s Competition Bureau, is once again setting up our industry for a fresh round of public stonings. Once more she is making generalized, insinuating and misleading statements through the national news, which are contradictory to...
by REM Editorial Team | Apr 26, 2011 | Letters to the Editor
In the June 2005 issue of REM Magazine you featured me on the cover with a feature story about my Elizabeth Taylor collection. I was very saddened by Elizabeth Taylor’s recent passing and I was besieged by the media for interviews. I did spots on CBC Radio and TV,...
by REM Editorial Team | Apr 4, 2011 | Letters to the Editor
I am responding to an article by Bob Aaron regarding Seller Property Information Statements (REM, March). His take on this is wrong. I am a broker for the past 30 years and have been using these forms since their inception. I contend that they have saved more...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 9, 2011 | Letters to the Editor
I recently attended a Real Estate Council of Ontario update session and was disappointed to see that the Ontario Real Estate Association is still strongly promoting the use of seller property information statement forms. I am not suggesting that the form is all bad,...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 22, 2011 | Letters to the Editor
Re: You get what you pay for, REM, January Since the outset of the Competition Bureau/CREA discussions, many registrants and brokerages have started promoting “new” models of real estate practice and commission/fee structures. To my mind, in the calculation: Gross...
by REM Editorial Team | Dec 1, 2010 | Letters to the Editor
It’s been some time now since we first talked in May 2006 about the importance of Realtors being able to incorporate their practices in Ontario. You may recall that you responded to my phone call about this issue by promptly assigning Don Procter to write a story for...
