by Vito Campanale | Feb 1, 2017 | Columnists, Featured
After more than 32 years in the brokerage business, I know that changing the way organized real estate and the Realtors who work in the industry do their business is not an easy proposition, even when it may be better for the industry itself and the consumers who rely...
by Reuven Gorsht | Jan 25, 2017 | Columnists, Featured
If you grew up in the 1980s like I did, you’re probably singing along to the theme of Cheers, one of the most popular TV series of all time. Cheers’ theme song pretty much laid out what the show was all about. Cheers was a Boston-based bar that had such intimate...
by Doug MacCallum | Jan 24, 2017 | Columnists, Featured
It would be a win, win, win if we could just clean out all the bad tenants for the landlords across our country. We all know bad tenants can bring down neighbouring property values. You may be a landlord yourself and have clients who are landlords, or you may have...
by Lorne Gross | Jan 18, 2017 | Columnists, Featured
The rise of China is like the steady movement of a train. We see the train accelerate with certainty and inevitability, but this acceleration is the result of something deeper. It is the unseen fuel deep within the train that powers its forward drive. Similarly, the...
by MarkWeisleder | Jan 17, 2017 | Advice for Agents, Columnists, Featured, Legal Issues
Time deadlines in real estate deals have never been more important than today. I experienced two deals just before the holidays that confirmed what happens or can happen when you miss a deadline. In the first case, the buyers signed a deal with a builder several years...
by Joseph Richer | Jan 13, 2017 | Columnists, Featured
In a recent story in REM, Vito Campanale proposed an alternate way to obtain consent from buyers and sellers, in order to release the deposit back to the buyer if conditions are not fulfilled. Here’s the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO)’s position on this...
