Archive for ‘April, 2003’

This decision is garbage

This decision is garbage

BY HEINO MOLLS – No matter what we decide to do with the garbage coming out of Toronto and Southern Ontario, it will cause harm to the living standards of others.
It is irrefutable that, someone or some people, will always suffer from the negative impact of our decisions because there is almost never a [...]

Our industry’s ‘Aha!’ moment

Our industry’s ‘Aha!’ moment

With the advent of the Multiple Listing Service, Realtors took a giant step forward by improving the exchange of information about properties for sale. Few of them paused to realize that through their hard work, their grip on the market seemed to self-perpetuate itself: the number of sellers who decided to list on MLS grew, [...]

100 columns later, how have we changed? Not much

100 columns later, how have we changed? Not much

BY MARTY DOUGLAS – In December 1994, editor Jim Adair printed my first column for REM, an opinion piece titled The West Coast Real Estate Fishery – in peril? This is Number 100.
Over the years I have been touched by the thoughtfulness of readers who have taken time to comment, to disagree, to rebut, [...]

Selling the Haunted House

Selling the Haunted House

Haunted houses do exist. So ruled the Supreme Court of the State of New York in a landmark decision, known as the Nyack Case, in the 1990s. It clearly set out the parameters of what a stigma problem can do to a property.
An out-of-town purchaser came to Nyack, New York and inspected a lovely [...]

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