1. Prepare to sell your house Home selling has become more complex than it used to be. New seller disclosure statements, longer and more mysterious form agreements, and a range of environmental concerns have all emerged in the past decade. 2. Find a Realtor® In the maze of forms, financing, inspections, marketing, pricing, and negotiating, […]
Archives for November 2015
Virtual Geo-farm to Grow Your Business
Geo-farming has long been a core strategy in the real estate professional’s wheelhouse. Selecting a local neighborhood to farm can be highly rewarding process – winning you additional listings in the long run. But traditional geo-farming, essentially sending marketing collateral to every home in a given neighborhood, is a time-consuming and expensive process. Not […]
Fiscal update erases projected surplus, Canada government expects $3B budget deficit
The deteriorating economic picture means that the projections of last April are now about $6 billion per year lower, on average, for the next few years. That accounts for the projected $3-billion deficit in the current fiscal year and a larger $3.9-billion deficit next year, before eventually returning to surplus in 2019-2020. Part of that is […]
How bonds help cut your risk
It’s been a rocky year for Canadian stocks in 2015. As of the close of trading on Nov. 16, 2015, the S&P/TSX Composite Index was down 9 per cent for the year, due in large part to a plunge of more than 17 per cent in the energy sector. It would take a huge, […]
Rogers Media agrees to pay $200,000 fine under CRTC’s anti-spam law
Rogers Media has agreed to pay a $200,000 fine to the CRTC for allegedly sending unsolicited email advertisements. The fine was levied under anti-spam legislation which took effect last year. Porter Airlines agrees to pay $150K for emails violating anti-spam rules Compu-Finder fined $1.1M under anti-spam law Plenty of Fish dating site fined under […]