by REM Editorial Team | Apr 22, 2009 | Publisher's Page
Statistics don’t lie. Property sales are down. Not just the number of property sales, but the amount of money houses are selling for is down. Car sales are down by about half. There is talk that big companies like General Motors are on the verge of financial collapse....
by REM Editorial Team | Apr 12, 2009 | Guest Columns, Technology
By Richard Silver At a recent MLS and Technology Council Forum, the focus was Web 2.0 and its place in the future of real estate. There were lots of great discussions about adapting agent, corporate and board/association products to Web 2.0, looking at consumer...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 25, 2009 | Publisher's Page
I grew up singing the national anthem every day in public school. We didn’t sing it in high school but we heard it every morning on a recording. I am so old that when I first started school, we didn’t sing O Canada until I was in about grade four. Up until then we...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 18, 2009 | Publisher's Page
This year Family Day in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario will be observed on February 16, two days after Valentine’s Day. I can think of no better time of the year to discuss the issue of homelessness. The heart of homelessness is, after all, love and the family we...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 12, 2009 | Guest Columns
We all have moments that we think, oh gosh, I wish I knew then, what I know now. How many times did you wish you bought that property that has now increased in value 10-fold? To help address our challenges today, it’s useful to go back to the past and see what we can...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 6, 2009 | Guest Columns
By Jamie MacMaster When we were kids on the farm, one of the first jobs we could handle during milking time was feeding the calves. It amounted to putting several inches of milk in the bottom of a pail and watching the little buggers siphon it up and bunt the pail...
