Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

This is now my, what, third or fourth blog post on this topic? I didn’t want to write it. I might make this blog post short and sweet. ” So allow me some leeway with the preamble, then a little background on “the bigger story,” and then I’ll show you my smoking gun. I still don’t.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

So when Monday’s blog, “Behind The Scenes Of A Toronto Offer Night” was a topic of conversation on Reddit, I had no choice but to read the discussion and subsequent comments. On Monday’s blog, a reader made the following comment: You know what? TorontoRealtyBlog. Do you know how to access the dark web ?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the new Freed Residences, where studio condos were being pre-sold for upwards of $2,300 per square foot. In fact, I really didn’t learn much from it, other than perhaps the notion that I needed to pen a similar blog post. ” I guess what goes around comes around.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Trust me folks, I did not want to write about this. Last week, no fewer than seven blog readers emailed me the following article: “Landlords Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Raise Rents Between Tenants, Says Toronto’s Top Housing Official” For what it’s worth, I saw the article on my own too. But then what?

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Easy Agent Pro

MARCH 24, 2021

We don’t want you to be among these unfortunate new real estate agents, to avoid that, we give you some hard truths that you may not want to hear, but must. It’s easy to waste time as a new real estate agent, when you are self-employed and nobody is monitoring your productivity. You are now a business owner.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Would I have more stories to tell, today, if I had lived in one of those apartment-style residences that are so popular now? Because the only thing I truly “missed out on” was more stories to tell in my old age. Some of the other schools offered “apartment-style dorms.” Did I miss out?

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Thirteen years, four months, and two thousand six hundred eighty-nine blog posts… And after all this time, often the content comes directly to me. 2,689 blog posts, and I always fear the day that I have nothing to write about! 2,689 blog posts, and I always fear the day that I have nothing to write about! True story.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Is it because he had what you wanted? Nobody really likes them. Do we respect those who have things that we want, but don’t have, or do we hate them for it? TorontoRealtyBlog. Remember that guy back in high school that was super popular and always got the ladies? If you hated him, why was that? He must be a total dick.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 10, 2020

Welcome to Instagram Story Ads. In today’s episode of The Walkthrough, social media ads expert Susan Wenograd says Story Ads are an untapped opportunity for real estate agents, and shows how you can be the first agent (or one of the first) in your market to capitalize on it. Instagram Stories. Free Download.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 15, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Nobody gets to the top in this business without a lot of help. Whether that help is asked for or merely given, need not matter. Help comes in all different forms and delivery methods and from many different sources. I’ve been with Bosley Real Estate my entire career; almost two decades. It was astonishing.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 24, 2021

I shudder every September when I hear the words “9/11” and “anniversary” used together, as I’m one of those people who sort of feels there’s a positivity associated with an anniversary, but the word “anniversary” isn’t inherently positive. I’m not really one for anniversaries.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

Long-time TRB readers will recall the story of when my parents bought our house on Bessborough Drive in May of 1992. Long-time TRB readers will recall the story of when my parents bought our house on Bessborough Drive in May of 1992. Did I ever mention that I hate change ? I’m a routine type of guy.

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App Folio

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With the knowledge of our experts, we want to help our audience understand: How digital experiences impact your leasing success. Everyone has a property management story, because – let’s face it – no matter what kind of community you live in, management has a huge influence over your experience. Listen now: . ? ? ?.

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Boom Town

JUNE 18, 2018

Below I have linked to one of my blog posts about preparing to buy a home and how it is different this year over the others. Consider the emails you’re sending to your leads. Would you open them if they appeared in your Inbox? More importantly, would you respond or visit a website? Readers don’t delete emails that interest them.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

A friend of mine sent me a text on Thursday: “Awesome blogs this week dude!” ” I wrote him back and said, “Well, only a couple of comments on Wednesday’s blog, so maybe it’s not all that enthralling?” ” He wrote back: “What else is there to say?: Good point, I suppose.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

What’s the difference between a 7-day vacation and a 14-day vacation? About seven days! But seriously, what’s the difference? The first one is too short and the second one is too long. On the seventh day, when everybody around us was looking sad, preparing to head home, we were absolutely elated to be staying!

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve heard the stories. If you’re already a listener, come join us to mastermind with other listeners, connect with the guests that you hear on the show, learn from other agents and share your knowledge, get exclusive content, influence future episodes, and more. Enjoying this episode? About This Episode. Leave a Review.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I hope you enjoyed that “trip down memory lane,” as Marina so eloquently put it, with the Top Five Blog Posts of 2022 in Monday’s post. Picking the top five “stories” of the year is a whole other ballgame, however. It’s often those stories that are most noteworthy or most memorable.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It’s just really, really hard to describe an entire year’s blog posts or an entire year’s real estate stories in a standard blog-post length. This is likely more subjective than the top five blog posts , but then again, we run into many of the same themes over and over. ” Nah.

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HomeLight

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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Boom Town

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

All those smarty-pants blogs (and smarty-pants coaches, for that matter) are telling you to build a system. You’ve listened to the stories. Everyone always praises those who have their sh*t together, but nobody really explains how to actually do it. Like any closer , you’ve had this gut-feeling … it’s time to take the next step.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Is it weird that the “Top Five” blogs, that I have written, are being chosen by me ? In any event, I’ve been running this feature now for over a decade, but in its current form, with the top five blogs and the top five stories each being featured in their own post, I think we’re into our sixth or seventh iteration.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 3, 2021

This is the story that nobody wants to hear, or , it’s the story that everybody wants to hear. For other existing home-owners, empathy flows from their fingertips to the comments section on the blog, as they talk about what’s “fair.” TorontoRealtyBlog. Too-bad, so-sad.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The story broke in the media and later that day, I ran by and watched workers continue to work even though the project was apparently being canceled… 2016: Foreign ownership. Somebody told me once that when you have children, the years go faster because you start to view your life in terms of your children’s milestones.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But I had a lot of fun here on Toronto Realty Blog as I always do, and I had even more fun sitting down to go through the year’s blog posts. Here are the Top Five Blog Posts of 2022 as we see them… #5: TRB Special Guest Posts: Chris Cansick, Matthew Morrison, & Tara Amina. Nobody does what I do.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Did you hear about that NCAA swimmer who won gold in his race, in record time, but was disqualified? True story , and I’m not embellishing here. Tough one to swallow here. He wasn’t disqualified because of performance-enhancing drugs, nor did he wear flippers in the pool. Celebrating too early.

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HomeLight

JUNE 20, 2022

If you’re already a listener, come join us to mastermind with other listeners, connect with the guests that you hear on the show, learn from other agents and share your knowledge, get exclusive content, influence future episodes, and more. Enjoying this episode? About This Episode. You know video works. Leave a Review. Full Transcript.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Looking back on it, I suppose I didn’t “need” to write a thousand words or more about my holiday break in Thursday’s blog post, thereby extending the length of the blog and only allowing us to examine two of the ten discussion points for 2023. Because negativity sells! Exceptionally uncommon , it seems.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

“Brand value” is also intangible, and while it’s easy to understand with different goods or services, many real estate consumers don’t want to admit that it exists when it comes to selling a home. Other times, I could do it in six minutes. “You list a property, you set an offer date, and you accept offers.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 31, 2022

You’re an expert when it comes to the latest real estate industry trends, but social media is a different story. You posted them on Facebook, and Instagram, and added Stories. Enjoying this episode? Be sure to follow The Walkthrough to get future episodes delivered automatically: Apple Podcasts/iTunes | Spotify | YouTube.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

You know, not every story or topic necessitates 2,500 words. Here are four stories that that fit that description. So here goes… “Hit me up @ the Hot” I think there might be two lessons learned in this story: 1) Why “professionals” in our industry shouldn’t use free email accounts.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 14, 2021

Over the last week, I’ve been bookmarking several newspaper articles in anticipation of writing a long-overdue blog post for which I would basically need to lock myself in my office with complete silence for a full day. Can we have an honest discussion here? Can we, really? April 7, 2021. “Toronto,” I said. .”

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 14, 2022

Or some cool, sexy, new virus that nobody knows about yet? I did something really odd the other day. I turned down not one, but two offers to lease on a rental listing where the tenants were both offering all twelve months of rent up front! Wait, back up. I did something really odd the other day. ” Wait, back up. Wait, back up.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

When I think of the song, all I can hear are those scary notes at the start of the song and a build-up to Morrison saying, “… this is the end…” It became a running joke in my family. TorontoRealtyBlog. My Father introduced me to The Doors at an early age. I think I was like seven. Read the lyrics to “The End.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 18, 2021

In the past, these stories are usually from the other side of the table: the would-be seller. In this case, the story is about a would-be buyer , a couple, in fact. Two people that I tried to help, unsuccessfully, as you might assume from this story. I’ve written posts like this one before many times.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Thanks to the readers for suggesting blog topics before the long weekend! As you saw in Tuesday’s blog post, I took one such suggestion to heart. I started blogging (ranting?) about the pre-construction condo industry just as soon as this blog was launched back in 2007. ” Yeah.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

Having said that, despite it only being March 9th, I’m already thinking about my “Top Five: Real Estate Stories Of 2022.” TorontoRealtyBlog. On Sunday afternoon, it was 14-degrees outside and I went for my first 12 KM run of 2022. To my running friends on TRB, let me say: I’m well, well behind schedule. KM per month.

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