by REM Editorial Team | Jan 13, 2010 | Letters to the Editor
Part of our problem with how we get paid is REBBA (in Ontario). This must be changed to allow for retainers, pay by the hour, flat rate plus percentage, etc… And CREA has to stop portraying us to the public as if our life is real estate. We are...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 6, 2010 | Featured, Letters to the Editor
I’m not sure if you remember my story (REM, May 2008), but I tried riding a motorcycle across Canada, in the middle of winter, in an effort to bring awareness and some donation for research for a condition called ‘interstitial cystitis’. You may also recall that my...
by REM Editorial Team | Dec 31, 2009 | Letters to the Editor
The C2B2 Virus 09 Strain is here. It’s not to be confused with C1B1 strain (1988), which was thought to have been eradicated with multiple vaccines that apparently were only good for 21 years. The information confirming this virus was two years in the making and those...
by REM Editorial Team | Dec 23, 2009 | Letters to the Editor
I just wanted to go a step further with Lloyd Manning’s article re: Partnering with your better half (October REM). My wife, Anastasia Boyd, and I started our partnership in 1984, before we were married in 1987, and it continues today but has now proceeded through...
by REM Editorial Team | Dec 21, 2009 | Letters to the Editor
The articles by Boris J. Bubas and Jennifer Rockburne about real estate retainers in the November edition of REM got me to thinking. Some in our business seem to think that the public should be compelled to pay up (a retainer) before actually engaging our services...
by REM Editorial Team | Dec 1, 2009 | Letters to the Editor
I am disturbed by the misleading information in your recent article Financing for vacation properties by Shirley Evans in the October REM. You state, “In British Columbia, for instance, there are aboriginal claims on a lot of land, which means your client can only...
