by REM Editorial Team | Sep 1, 2005 | Letters to the Editor
This letter is in response to all the letters, articles and advertisements that disagree with commission cutting. My husband, Terry Burley, and his partner Mike Newhouse, have successfully operated Flat Fee Realty Inc. (an alternative real estate company) for...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 1, 2005 | Letters to the Editor
I read your article with great interest and believe you are absolutely right in that selling agents (those representing a buyer, whether under contract with a Buyer Agency Agreement or implied) should present their own offer OR at the very least be present when...
by REM Editorial Team | Jul 1, 2005 | Letters to the Editor
I would like to response to the recent article on Heritage Designation in Ontario (REM, May). The article concedes that “the protection of our past is a laudable aim” yet it never once illustrates how or why it is laudable. The protection of our past requires...
by REM Editorial Team | May 30, 2005 | Letters to the Editor
I read with interest your most recent editorial on grow houses and how to stop them. (The Publisher’s Page, REM, May). It is simplistic to say the least to expect that legalizing marijuana will eliminate illegal grow operations. The vast majority of...
by REM Editorial Team | Apr 30, 2005 | Letters to the Editor
We have an interesting situation where members of the public have good access to all or most MLS listings in Ontario (and Canada) through the CREA web site, www.mls.ca. Some people in the real estate industry feel that the site is merely an advertising medium rather...
by REM Editorial Team | Apr 1, 2005 | Letters to the Editor
As members of the Canadian Regulators Group Agency Task Force (ATF), we read with interest Albert Teichner’s article entitled Designated Agency: A ticking time bomb in the February 2005 edition of REM. In the interest of furthering dialogue within the real estate...
