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Motorboats and snowmobiles

I remember the first time I ever stood on a dock on a lake in the Ontario vacation area of Muskoka during the 1950s. What a wonderful experience it was.   I recall looking enviously at the folks who drove around the lake in all manner of motor boats. They were mostly...

Oh Canada eh?

Okay. Canada Day is coming up and for all the people who read this column regularly, and I mean both of you, I need not tell you again how much this country means to me. But you know I will. As an immigrant from 1953 I have benefited enormously from growing up here. I...

Landscaping decisions and resale value

By Ron Rossini   Many buyers divide the renovation tasks of a newly acquired home into remodeling the interior of their house and the exterior landscape. Choices a homeowner makes to develop a personally satisfactory landscape can affect resale potential.   There are...

Maureen O’Neill for TREB president

I hope that REM readers will forgive a departure from my usual column and permit me this personal message to readers in Toronto. Bringing the real estate industry to a higher level of professionalism has been a work in progress that I have watched for over three...

Real estate is our life

It seems when I read the REM paper, often you are promoting a Realtor who has a second career.  I believe this to be upsetting to say the least. Not so long ago there was a national campaign, “Real estate is our life”. I guess this is not the case, nor the message you...

‘Disturbing’ comments

I’ve been a Realtor and loyal reader of REM since 1998 and this is the first time I’ve felt compelled to write to you, but the tone and content of the Letters to the Editor in the March edition (concerning so called part-time versus full-time Realtors) really...