We all know that laws governing the real estate industry are created and maintained by the provinces. Whether there is a real estate council or registrar in place, ultimately when it comes time to declare a ruling, the province decides what is correct in law for the real estate profession.
The people who make the [...]

BY GLENN TEMES
 
When associations review associations, isn’t it interesting how they find that the association needs to do more? Maybe it is time we tell our associations to undertake a real core review and to cut everything that isn’t absolutely necessary. Especially those functions that are services provided by other levels of associations. More importantly, [...]

The word egregious is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as “shocking” or “extremely bad”. In the following tale, it describes the conduct of a licensee and two members of the public.
A Realtor had a listing with an unusually tough seller (so what else is new?). The expiry date of the listing was March 3l. [...]

Marty, I agree with you. I used to own a small independent company with a mall kiosk.
My company never use to have enough listings to fill the feature space so I used MLS Listings. They always had the Listing Company named in the feature sheet. It got to be more hassle than it was worth, [...]

Marty, I enjoy reading your articles. I really appreciate those individuals who say it as it is. That’s why I miss John Cooke’s articles. He sure knew how to stir the pot with some very interesting issues. Anyhow, I thought that you might want to check out an interesting site in Minneapolis. This is a [...]

Re: Would you let me advertise your listings, Metes & Bounds, REM, April
Marty, you have eloquently made your case for exposing listings on behalf of the vendor. After all, what vendor would argue against all the additional exposure?
We must consider the Realtor/broker advertising this property for sale. Do they have any intimate knowledge about the [...]

I am writing to express my disappointment when you decided to publish a story under the headline Guelph sales rep under fire for flyer message. The Canadian Press borrowed this story from the Guelph Mercury, which first published it on December 21, 2001. The  Canadian Press obviously cares little about accuracy. Canadian Press copied the [...]

As a result of the REM Survey, editor Jim Adair and publisher Heino Molls are pleased to announce that I am now earning twice as much per column as before. I want to thank those of you who mentioned Metes and Bounds — that is the name of this column — in your survey returns. [...]

Dan Grantham of Sutton Group‑Select Realty has won his office’s second annual Michele Montour Award for Excellence.  The award honours the memory of office colleague Michele Montour, who died of cancer. In presenting the award, broker/owner Bruce Sworik describes Grantham as possessing similar qualities to the late Montour: a team player, with a positive, upbeat [...]

Kootenay Business Magazine in Kootenay, B.C. recently honoured Creston broker/owner Michael Carpenter of Re/Max Discovery with the Silver Award in its 2001 Best of Business Reader’s Choice Awards. “We at Re/Max Discovery are very proud of our broker/owner,” office administrator Dorothy‑Jean McIvor wrote to REM. “The Kootenay region covers the south‑eastern area of B.C., so [...]