by REM Editorial Team | Dec 30, 2013 | Featured, Profiles
By Connie Adair “Look at that guy. He has already sold nine houses.” It was not what the young agent wanted to hear when she had sold nothing in her first three months as a Realtor. She went home, got into bed, pulled the covers up over her head and cried. “Just...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 18, 2013 | Boards & Associations, Featured, News, Profiles
Interview by Jim Adair CREA president Laura Leyser comes from a third-generation family of dairy farmers. She lives with her husband and children on a farm near Stratford, Ont. A sales rep with Re/Max a-b Realty, she has been a Realtor for more than 24 years and was...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 28, 2013 | Featured, Profiles
Interview by Dennis McCloskey Andy Puthon, 56, who was born and raised in Guelph, Ont. and still lives there, knew as a young teenager that he wanted to go into the real estate business. On weekends in 1970 he would go to Toronto where his older sister, Michaela, was...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 30, 2013 | Advice for Agents, Featured, Profiles
By Dennis McCloskey Prince Edward Island sales rep Michael Poczynek does not believe in advertising his listings by just “putting a sign on the lawn until it rots”. The agent with Century 21 Northumberland Realty in Summerside, P.E.I. has taken to the skies to...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 11, 2013 | Featured, Good Works, Profiles
By Melanie Epp Photos by Christine Hess Before Masterson Realty sales rep Mike Strange decided to run a marathon a day for 80 consecutive days, he’d never run a marathon in his life. In fact, the Niagara Falls, Ont. Realtor wasn’t much of a runner at all. He was,...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 5, 2013 | Featured, Profiles
By Connie Adair On June 1, the sales reps at Vantage West Realty in Kelowna turned off their computers and smartphones. They stayed dark for the entire month. It wasn’t due to a power outage, a fire or a flood. The brokerage’s 10 agents gave up technology to raise...
