by REM Editorial Team | Jan 14, 2011 | Featured, Guest Columns
By Mary LaMeres & Lyle Martin In a recent guest column in REM (November 2010), broker Ari Lahdekorpi wrote in praise of commission-based compensation. The author commented that “any flat fee or a la carte type of formula removes some aspect of motivation or...
by REM Editorial Team | Dec 22, 2010 | Publisher's Page
There’s a lot of ink getting laid out about the agreement between CREA and the Competition Bureau regarding MLS. The most thoughtful comments related to this are available here in REM and on the website www.remonline.com. There are also comments on our web pages that...
by REM Editorial Team | Dec 1, 2010 | Letters to the Editor
It’s been some time now since we first talked in May 2006 about the importance of Realtors being able to incorporate their practices in Ontario. You may recall that you responded to my phone call about this issue by promptly assigning Don Procter to write a story for...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 24, 2010 | Publisher's Page
Many years ago there was a young man named Cliff Edwards who was very successful on the vaudeville circuit. He was a gregarious fellow who played the ukulele and entertained thousands in theatres all across the land through the 1920s and 1930s. He had hit songs on the...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 8, 2010 | Featured, Guest Columns
By Ari Lahdekorpi It seems that every few years someone comes along with a concept or a business model to improve on the tried and true compensation method that has worked best for the real estate industry over the last hundred years. The means of compensation paid...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 20, 2010 | Publisher's Page
When I was a kid back in the late ’50s, we had men’s clubs in our communities. Not the creepy men’s clubs like today but honourable organizations that meant well. They were associations of benevolent men who did good things for their towns and charities. They were...
