by Ari Lahdekorpi | Aug 31, 2015 | Guest Columns
I first picked up the guitar in the mid-ʼ60s. It was the era of the British Invasion, a time when the guitar was king. I wasn’t interested in learning how to play the clarinet or the accordion like many of my friends were being forced to by their parents. It was the...
by Mark Rodgers | Aug 28, 2015 | Advice for Agents, Featured, Guest Columns
Suspicious buyers, critical sellers, tight-fisted lenders. Let’s face it: Selling real estate today is no easy feat. You need every tool at your disposal if you’re going to have a successful year and, even more important, a productive career. The subtle science of...
by Robert E. Lee | Aug 24, 2015 | Featured, Guest Columns
This is tongue-in-cheek. Stop, pause and re-organize if you consider doing any of these things. 1. Don’t return that phone call until a “more convenient time”. If the answer can truly wait, great. Return the call or send a quick text message right away and say the...
by Jeff Stern | Aug 21, 2015 | Featured, Guest Columns
No one wants to think about growing older or needing help – not me, not you, not even our parents. But if you have aging parents, this is a reality you’re either facing right now, or you are about to. When the time comes for them to look for assisted living or health...
by Michel Friedman | Aug 20, 2015 | Featured, Guest Columns
The new Ontario Bill-55 has been created to solve the growing problem of phantom offers in our industry – in particular in Toronto’s hot real estate market. The thing about phantom offers is they are illegal. They are used strictly to fraudulently drive up the price...
by Jeff Grad and Richard Crenian | Aug 10, 2015 | Columnists, Featured
There is one rule to remember in commercial real estate whether you are a buyer and holder, or someone who makes money on the management side: financial value is judged on what can be made going forward, not what it was in the past. The trick is to identify this...
