by Jim Reid | Sep 15, 2016 | Guest Columns
Legalized bondage is nothing new as millions of workers used to be called “indentured servants”. The fact is they were under contract to serve someone else, just like “independent contractors”. Of course the laws compressing their lives were quite...
by Ken Goodfellow | Sep 13, 2016 | Columnists
It’s your vision. It’s your journey. It’s your success. Right? Wrong. You’re a misguided fool if you think you can go at it alone. Anyone who has ever achieved greatness has had help. The real estate professionals who have the entrepreneurial mindset know they can’t...
by Jim Reid | Sep 6, 2016 | Columnists
Perhaps real estate professionals could help their clients if they revealed a bit more about the composition, causes and remedies of real estate bubbles. Most people understand that sometimes when property values rise quickly, such as in the late 1980s in Canada, they...
by Heino Molls | Sep 2, 2016 | Publisher's Page
A lot of things have changed in the real estate business in the past 25 years. One thing that has not changed is that many real estate salespeople and even brokers don’t have their own homes at retirement, let alone any savings or plans for where they should live...
by Ari Lahdekorpi | Aug 18, 2016 | Columnists, Featured
One of the great things (among many) about being in the real estate industry is that although we may be in business for ourselves as independent contractors, we are not in business by ourselves. Recently I was invited to participate in the NEXTGENre conference in...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 15, 2016 | Letters to the Editor
It has been a couple of years since I semi-retired and set up my own independent brokerage that doesn’t belong to organized real estate. Location, location, location has been the mantra for buying real estate since time began, but the key importance of “location” used...
