by REM Editorial Team | Mar 23, 2015 | Letters to the Editor
What a mess. I speak of the draconian and ugly FINTRAC legislation that Prime Minister Harper passed in 2008. It is a total flop. One hundred and ten thousand members of CREA along with thousands of other small business persons were mandated by law to carry out...
by REM Editorial Team | Dec 17, 2014 | Letters to the Editor
Re: Marty Douglas’ plans to retire this year as REM columnist We need Marty Douglas’ intelligence, experience humour and wit. How many of us get the REM magazine and go right to his column? I know I do. My wife takes the REM paper away from me to read Marty, and she’s...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 28, 2014 | Letters to the Editor
In Niagara Falls and I’m sure throughout Canada, Realtors are selling homes that have been used as grow-ops. The buyer is not aware because the Realtor is not telling him. Nor is the lender aware, since money for the mortgage would not be available if they were. For...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 15, 2014 | Letters to the Editor
Listening to the news I frequently hear or read articles by economic experts who quote statistics to support an imminent crash in housing prices that is defined as a correction. It seems these dire predictions are no more than means to get attention by using a lot of...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 23, 2014 | Letters to the Editor
Re: Time to rethink FINTRAC (September REM) As an established consultant in the anti-money laundering compliance field here in Canada, I have made it a practice to be open to the opinions from professionals working in the various sectors governed by Canada’s money...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 10, 2014 | Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor Mortgage rate wars are in full swing, opening lucrative possibilities for condo investors. There have been many surprises from lenders. We have even observed the return of interest rates as low as a 2.99-per-cent fixed rate for five years....
