BY HEINO MOLLS – I am not an unusually big man, but I am six feet tall. I am overweight. I am bald. I have hands that people refer to as meat hooks. I am referred to in friendly gestures as “big guy”, as in “How are you big guy?”
Dainty is not a word [...]

Re: Newspapers face ‘triple threat’ as Realtors shun print ads (REM, June).
 
The source of this article, Inman News Features, related the threat to revenues of newspapers and free publications from digital media, based on a report by Borrell Associates Inc. That report noted the triple threat arises from shifting consumer home-seeking habits, broker reciprocity policy, [...]

Regarding your front page article in the July REM, Controversial ad campaign doesn't sway Toronto vote: Let me say I am very proud of Re/Max for taking a stand. They interviewed many candidates and leant their support to those they felt would and could do the job. I believe that I am associated with the [...]

Here’s more about the story we talked about last month. When the mill shut down, many of its workers were unable to find other employment in a small town. One of these was a millworker, who had to sell his house when he couldn’t make his mortgage payments. He listed with Realtor # 1 of [...]

After nine years (seems like a decade to me too), I am forgoing my annual letter to the Minister of Finance. For two reasons. I rather liked the sound of “Dear Paul” — a bit like writing to a disciple. “Dear John” has an unnatural ring to it, reminding me of the calls a manager [...]

The B.C. Northern Real Estate Board has named Wayne Jenkins as Realtor of the Year. Jenkins has been involved in real estate since the 1970s, working as a salesperson and a real estate owner. He is currently a sales rep with Re/Max Centre City Realty in Prince George. He is a past-president of the board, [...]

Bill Johnston of Coldwell Banker Pinnacle Real Estate in Thornhill, Ont. has been awarded the Morguard Literary Award for practicing Realtors, by the Real Estate Institute of Canada. Johnston won the award for a paper entitled Negotiation for Real Estate Professionals: Getting the Contract with Sellers and Buyers. This is the second time Johnston has [...]

This year’s winners of the London and St. Thomas Real Estate Board's (LSTREB) $1,000 scholarships are Marta Biderman and Robyn Carson. Biderman is the daughter of Realtor Ziggy Biderman; Carson is the son of Realtor Mike Carson.
The scholarship recognizes university or college-bound students who are the children or grandchildren of LSTREB members or staff. To [...]

The Saskatchewan Real Estate Association and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. honoured Terry Alm of Realty Executives in Saskatoon with the 2002 Distinguished Realtor Award. Alm has been involved in real estate since 1988 and is a past-president of SREA, having served on the association's board of directors from 1993-1997. He also was CREA’s [...]

Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services gave its 2001 Marketing Assistance Award to Prudential Maximum Realty of Ottawa, in recognition of the firm’s outstanding performance in such areas as employee sales rates, broker market analysis to sales variance, customer satisfaction and responsiveness. The president of Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Earl Lee, and Margery Marshall, president [...]