To Bully, Or Not To Bully…

12 03 2010

…that is the question!

The answer depends on whether you are a buyer or a seller, and whether you are a risk-taker or not!

Bully offers are happening with increasing frequency.  Let’s examine why…

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My Newest Guilty Pleasure

8 03 2010

I’ll admit it: I love this show.

Million Dollar Listing is on HGTV and I can’t get enough of it.

I don’t watch reality television, and in actual fact, I really only watch sports and news, unless a show is available on DVD.  But I’ll admit that after tearing this show apart on my blog last year, I’ve come to enjoy it.

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Two Sides Of The ‘Pre-Construction’ Coin

26 02 2010

After my experience last week at a few new-condo launches, I immediately came back to my office and put on an impromptu real estate seminar for those of my colleagues who were (un)lucky enough to be present.

I ranted and raved, and they sat and listened.

And then one of them played devil’s advocate and raised a very interesting way of looking at things…

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Pop The Cork!

19 02 2010

That’s me.  And that’s a bottle of 1998 Dom Perignon.

One of my readers who uses the moniker DaveyTheJ dropped this bottle off at my office last week as payment for a “bet” that we had made on the blog in 2008.

And this explains what my blog is all about…

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What A Joke!

18 02 2010

At the risk of being black-listed by developers in the real estate industry, I’m going to tell you what I think about the “special broker’s preview” that took place on Tuesday at Sync Condos.

It was a freaking joke, and I can’t believe I expected anything different…

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Sync Condos

15 02 2010

Let’s try this again.

Remember when I wrote about my attempts to purchase a condo at 2 Gladstone in the Queen West area?

Well Streetcar Developments will be launching Sync Condos this week and I’m bringing my cheque book, my patience, and a lot of elbow grease…

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Let The Games Begin!

12 02 2010

For the next seventeen days, I will be working from my home office, aka my couch.

Once every four years, we are treated to the greatest spectacle in all of sports: the Olympic Winter Games.

I truly believe that the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver will help Canada gain more worldwide notoriety than it has ever had before…

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Bad Advice!

10 02 2010

Everybody and their mothers are going to give you advice when you let it be known that you’re buying real estate.

So who do you listen to?

Call me naive, but my answer is obviously, “Just listen to your real estate agent.”

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So-So Strategy

5 02 2010

I recently completed a sale where the seller and his agent put forth a rather interesting strategy.

It wasn’t anything new; it was just new to the area and the type of property.

In the end, the result was so-so, as the seller did sell his condo, but not at the price he was looking for…

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Why Is SPIRE So Expensive?

4 02 2010

I’ve been asking this question for three years, and prices have continued to rise.

I feel like it’s a joke that everybody understands but me, and yet I continue to say, “I don’t get it.”

Why does this building cost more than any other building in the area?

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