Mark Vosylius, Barrie, Orillia-'s Blog

Canadian Real Estate Investing Fundamentals -#1 If you are already a sophisticated real estate investor then you probably already know the fundamentals of what makes real estate so attractive and unique when compared to other investment vehicles. These series of articles will start with basic rea...

How to run all Real Estate CRM info from one page in Outlook Since the response has been so tremendous from my last 2 posts,  I thought I would expand further on how to set up Outlook to run your whole Real estate CRM. I have found that to save time I wanted to view-and access all my custom conta...

Picture Examples of what Outlook can do...I had so many people interested in how I set up my Outlook forms to run my real estate business, I thought I would expand on my first blog ( "Outlook can run your whole business in 5 minutes") and show what the outcome "could be" with a little effort. The...

Past week presents Real Estate Opportunities.This past week we saw Bear Stearns take a dive, the Fed step in and prop up whatever was left and reduce interest rates. I heard some forecasters talk about the foundation of our whole ( the world!) economic system as having a crack. Its not as solid a...

Housing Affordability-Two Papers, Two storiesThe Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail both ran articles on RBC's housing affordability index report. From the exact same data however two different interpretations were derived. The Star focused on how poor 2008 and will be in Ontario ( stressing the...

Barrie Ontario Downtown Convention CenterThe buzz around Barrie council meetings is all about the new Convention center that "may" happen in the downtown Barrie ( waterfront) area. It seems the focus was on the negative.Will it be good for Business in Barrie? - Yes ( I will help you with the hard...

7 Steps to program Outlook and run your whole real estate business in 5 minutesBeing a salesman, I love networking. I use Outlook for most of the emails and contacts I get from networking. I don't like having to open up different programs for different applications. Outlook syncs well with my Bla...

How can Vancouver maintain these prices...The last article I read on Vancouver was that housing affordability was now at 63%. That means 63% of the average persons income now goes to pay for a home. And according to my notes, its been like that in Vancouver for almost 1.5 years now. Any normal pe...

Disappointing Budget for real estate investorsThe recent budget presented by the Tory government was a disappointment for small real estate investors who use real estate holdings as a way to build a retirement fund. The expected elimination of the capital gains tax when re-investing back into rea...

We here is Canada and more locally, in Simcoe County, know that we are not in a recession. Our good friends to the south of Barrie ( and I don't mean Innisfil or Bradford!) are certainly headed that way. I'm of the opinion of buying when everyone is selling and selling when everyone is buying. Wh...