by REM Editorial Team | Mar 9, 2011 | Letters to the Editor
I recently attended a Real Estate Council of Ontario update session and was disappointed to see that the Ontario Real Estate Association is still strongly promoting the use of seller property information statement forms. I am not suggesting that the form is all bad,...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 23, 2011 | Publisher's Page
When the dust settles on the confrontations related to the Competition Bureau and the real estate community, regardless of the outcome, I think it is understood that we have to have a governing body in place to oversee fairness in business and industry for everyone. I...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 22, 2011 | Letters to the Editor
Re: You get what you pay for, REM, January Since the outset of the Competition Bureau/CREA discussions, many registrants and brokerages have started promoting “new” models of real estate practice and commission/fee structures. To my mind, in the calculation: Gross...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 4, 2011 | Featured, Guest Columns
By Michel Chevalier To be green, or not to be green? That is the question! The answer my friends, is not blowing in the wind, as many residents of rural Canada and elsewhere around the world are finding out – the hard way – by living next to giant industrial wind...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 1, 2011 | Featured, Guest Columns
By Ron Stuart The Guest Column (REM November 2010) did our industry a service by raising the subject of agent remuneration, but the assertion that sale-contingent commission is the best compensation method for ever and all time perhaps deserves some scrutiny. Public...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 27, 2011 | Publisher's Page
Some months ago I had a conversation with a young man who worked at McDonald’s to earn extra money for university tuition. He told me about a customer who threw a cola at him because he had mistakenly given it to him instead of the orange drink he had ordered. The...
