Andrew's Real Estate Blog

Another Person(s) gets the shaft thanks to a lousy real estate agent and the agent gets a slap on the wrist.  This incident happened in 2003, so it was before REBBA 2002 came to be law.We often wonder why the general public has a less than pretty picture of REALTORS® and then I read a story about...

I have never been a huge fan of office parties as they always seem so forced.  In past careers I spent 5 days a week or more working beside my co-workers and as much as I liked them I did not like the idea of being pressured into spending more time with co-workers than I needed to.  I thought abo...

As much as I am fascinated by some of the intricacies and minutia of contract wording and structure I would never try and equate myself or any Realtor® with being a Lawyer.  Which is why I was shocked to learn that in Ontario we almost had to be licensed by the Upper Canada Law Association under ...

As much as Real Estate has many ups and downs and can go from invigorating to frustrating and back in a matter of hours, I will still count my blessings.  As a little reminder of some of the other employment options that are available, here is a little ditty complements of the Jack FM newsletter ...

To get a little more serious than my last post.  This past weekend was another one of those great roller coaster rides that we call working as a Realtor®.  I had some great clients come in from out of country to look at homes.  We were going to look at 5 homes.  As we went from one to the next, a...

We have all heard that there are many things sellers can do to make their home "show" better.  Home Staging is one wise option for most people.  However, there is another aspect of getting your home that even trumps a well staged home.  That one major step is making your home available to show as...

Question to all Rainers.  Do you think that being on your local Chamber of commerce is worth the membership?I am considering joining the Aurora, Ontario, Chamber of Commerce and I was just wondering if this is a worth while organization (any chambers of commerce, not just the Aurora one), or do y...

Just about the worst thing that could happen, happened yesterday.  Well, that might be a little over dramatic, but I lost my cell phone.  My business life blood. I was at the Markham Kite Fair and, while running around trying to get a kite to fly with next to no wind, my phone dropped of the clip...

I was going through a number of profiles and looking at how people are using the associates function in Active Rain.  I was surprised that most people seemed to only add a person in without making any comments about the associate.  It is almost like people are using this feature as a simple bookm...

For those that have Point2Agent websites I am sure you know about the tele-seminars that they produce on a regular basis.  Today's seminar was on website "stickiness" and the guest speaker was a fellow Rainer, Kathleen Allardyce.  I will attempt to give a summary of the seminar here.  First Stick...