by REM Editorial Team | Aug 24, 2012 | Advice for Agents, Guest Columns
By Patricia Verge Mandatory home energy audits are once again in the news thanks to a recent report from Gord Miller, the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario. In his report, Mr. Miller asserts that homebuyers are hurt by the lack of energy efficiency information in...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 24, 2012 | Featured, Letters to the Editor
An interesting real estate story happened at our office recently. I work as an office assistant at L.E. Realty in Regina. One of our agents had a rural property listing but due to an injury was unable to retrieve the sign standard. Our broker, Lucinda Eilers, and I...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 21, 2012 | Letters to the Editor
Just prior to Melanie Aitken’s August 2009 appointment to the federal Competition Bureau’s top job (Commissioner), the government implemented sweeping legal powers, dictatorial and unconstitutional in nature, in my opinion, that enabled Ms Aitken to impose...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 17, 2012 | Columnists, News
Peter Holgate has joined the management team at Right At Home Realty as the area manager, Burlington and Oakville, Ont. “Peter is a well-known successful manager who comes to Right At Home Realty with past managerial experience with Re/Max, Royal LePage and Sutton,”...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 15, 2012 | Advice for Agents, Columnists
By Ari Lahdekorpi Steven Covey has passed away. I am sure a lot will be written and remembered about this key figure in the world of self-help and motivation. While Dale Carnegie may have been the godfather of the motivational book, Steven Covey was certainly this...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 9, 2012 | Letters to the Editor
Is Buyer Broker Agency designed to tie up the public? I’m not so sure the BBA is about loyalty per se. There have been many discussions about why the Real Estate Council of Ontario insists agents have a buyer broker contract in place. They will not adjudicate a...
