by REM Editorial Team | Nov 1, 2003 | Guest Columns
BY JIM HAZZARD How do you finance the purchase of rural or agricultural properties? Here’s a horror story about the insensitivity of our financial institutions. The buyer and his partner decide they want to move from downtown Toronto to develop a...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 1, 2003 | Letters to the Editor
I would like to congratulate my grandmother, Joyce Rogers, on her recent retirement. Joyce was one of the first female Realtors to join the Sudbury Real Estate Board in the late 1960s. Her dedication and commitment to the profession was second to none. As a...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 1, 2003 | Publisher's Page
During the mid 1950s when I was a kid, my dad worked in a furniture shop at Spadina and Queen in downtown Toronto. Sometimes, I got to go to the shop with him and I made a bit of pocket change running to the restaurant and getting coffee for everybody. I would pass...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 1, 2003 | Letters to the Editor
Despite David Herman's claims (Letters to the Editor, REM, September), the B.C. Real Estate Association -‑ at the epicentre of Canada's worst housing disaster – has offered little assistance to their own members or B.C. home buyers in dealing with...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 1, 2003 | Letters to the Editor
RE: Disclosure process fails BC condo buyers, says report The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) was pleased that you countered this article on the cover of your August 2003 issue, with a constructive article on page 22. However, we would have...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 1, 2003 | Publisher's Page
For the last little while we’ve had a lot of political activity in almost all the provinces across Canada. There are relatively new governments in British Columbia and Quebec. We’ve had parties return to power in Manitoba and New Brunswick. They’re going to the polls...
