by REM Editorial Team | Jun 25, 2012 | Featured, Profiles
By Kelly Putter Realtors aren’t necessarily known for singing the blues, though you may have heard colleagues cry a river about a lousy commission split. This pair of Realtors sings for their supper, quite literally. As a sales team with RealtySource in Kingston,...
by REM Editorial Team | Jun 18, 2012 | Featured, Profiles
Karl Popow recently launched LBridge Realty Corporation, a new commercial real estate brokerage in Toronto. Popow says the company is offering commercial Realtors “all of the benefits that are now enjoyed by residential agents, and more… more choice, personal...
by REM Editorial Team | Jun 15, 2012 | Featured, Good Works, Profiles
Paying it forward comes naturally to Kathy Pineo Barrett, who has done it informally for years. Now she has created a formal program with a referral component and wants other Re/Max brokers and agents to join and reap the benefits. Best of all, it doesn’t cost a thing...
by REM Editorial Team | Jun 11, 2012 | Advice for Agents, Featured, Profiles
Andrew McLane is half the man he used to be. Literally. And it’s a good thing. The 27-year-old Realtor tipped the scales at 455 pounds a year ago, but has since dropped 245 pounds. “Why? How? That’s what people want to know,” says McLane, an agent with Royal LePage...
by REM Editorial Team | May 24, 2012 | Featured, Profiles
By Brian Slemming The first decade of the 20th century produced profitable times for Winnipeg. The great Canadian prairie was opening up. Settlers and immigrants were pouring into Winnipeg on any available form of transport. Those newcomers needed somewhere to settle,...
by REM Editorial Team | Apr 30, 2012 | Featured, Profiles
By Valérie Vézina It is December 2011. Patrice Groleau and Debby Doktorczyk are both on vacation and will return the same day, their voice mails announce. It was “our first holiday together in two and a half years,” says Doktorczyk a few days later in the glassed-in...