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 26, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Publisher's Page
In 1972 I decided to buy a new car. As I walked through an array of cars at a dealership, I took a long envious look at a vehicle that was loaded with options. Like the old gag, it had luxuries in places that I did not even know there were places in an automobile. I...
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....
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 26, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Publisher's Page
When you read a newspaper you can go from page to page, section to section, front to back and back to front. You can put the paper down for a while and come back to it at the same page or start all over again. You are far more likely to read a complete story in the...
