by REM Editorial Team | Sep 26, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Publisher's Page
In 1972 I decided to buy a new car. As I walked through an array of cars at a dealership, I took a long envious look at a vehicle that was loaded with options. Like the old gag, it had luxuries in places that I did not even know there were places in an automobile. I...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 26, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Publisher's Page
When you read a newspaper you can go from page to page, section to section, front to back and back to front. You can put the paper down for a while and come back to it at the same page or start all over again. You are far more likely to read a complete story in the...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 11, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Publisher's Page
Our cities are more crowded than ever. There are so many people, so many appliances churning, so much need for food manufacturing and so much more of everything. These are the things that are causing global warming, development of insular technology and sadly,...
by REM Editorial Team | Jul 14, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Publisher's Page
Thirty years ago I asked a very successful sales professional if he could give me one word that would best define a great salesperson. He thought for a moment and then said, “Teacher.” I believe that is as true today as it was then. The best salesperson is a teacher...
by REM Editorial Team | Jun 18, 2014 | Publisher's Page
We asked readers from across the country to give us their choices of influential industry people for our 25th Anniversary edition. I know most of the people whose names were submitted and I agree with the composition of that list but there are so many more. Maureen...
by REM Editorial Team | May 20, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Publisher's Page
The real estate business is riding a wave of change these days. I am not a real estate agent – I have never sold property. I have, however, spent 35 years watching the real estate business in Canada. In all those years I have seen the number of people in the business...
