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Today, because it's getting milder and fhe first flock of Canada Geese were spotted on my walkabout, I feel rejuvneted! Energized to write another Blog on a cloudy but warmer ( 3 dfgrees-balmy!) It's becoming a pain to me to see Agents cutting their commission rightfully due to them for some tru...
02/27/2011
Over the past 4 decades or so now, I've often heard " I'm too old for this business now, find me some sharp Agent to buy my book of business from my 320 years in the Real Estate business. I ask" "so what do you think it's worth?' The answer is usually " i really don't know," or " I think it's w...
01/27/2011
Oscar Wilde once wrote"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes!" Every week or so, many of us in Management get asked what we feel is a question of legality or what is right in the Brokerage business. I always refer the agents when asking about fields of endeavor that they shoul...
12/13/2010
So, you want to be a Manager eh? Maybe you should think it over twice before jumping into the water~! Allow me to share a bit of my background with you. I first thought about Management and owning my own Brokerage back in the '70s and found it to be very rewarding and even financially benefici...
12/11/2010
YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO PASS ANOTHER CAR WITHOUT A RIGHT HAND MIRRIOR? LET ME TELL YOU, IN CASE YOU HAVE NEVER LOST ONE~! IT IS A CRAZY FEELING. IT IS DECEMER 2010 REM ARTICLE “I SEE THE POSSIBILITIES!” OR “WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR SIDE VIEW MIRROR?” “I WAS ABLE TO SEE WHAT I WA...
12/11/2010
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So, today, again, for the 12th time, I participated in the Annuel Run for the Cure here in Vaughan~ Although in the past, my wife Audrey and I participated in the Run in downtown Toronto. But the parking is so bad, that I decided to do the 5km walk in Vaughan. Well, actually did only 1 km s it wa...
10/03/2010
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Hey! what the heck does the comparison of one former British Army Captain's adventure compare with my "adventure" into the depths and mysteries of losing 25 lbs accumulated over many years. Yes, what do I have in common with Captain Ed Stafford's 28 month trek through the jungles and swamp surro...
08/12/2010
A good friend of mine, Mark Borkowski, an Engineer by Avocation and an Indusrial Sales Consultant by Vocation, once advised me of this rather neat idea as to how to add more and more prospects to your S,O.I. and that idea was so simple, I really never gave it a thought, until I started to advise ...
08/07/2010
What better way to spend part of a weekend with friends and family. Saturday night,6 of our friends over for one of my wifes' special dinners featuring zucchini apple soup, grilled scallops, bean salad,lamb chops a la Mediterranean style and the coup de gras, fruit trifle slightly flavoured with ...
08/01/2010
Wow! do some of us remember that was a lot of money back then and who doesn't remember the $64,000.00 Question TV Show(TM) ? The sums of monies to be won back in the day seemed awfully large then, but then gas was only .35Cents a gallon and Wonderbread (tm) was only .30 cents a loaf, haircuts we...
07/30/2010