Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

But nearly fourteen years later, in December of 2020, Jack Dorsey created a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) out of this Tweet, which was his first ever on the platform. What the hell does that actually mean? What the hell does that actually mean? You can make a market out of anything. Oh, trust me, anything.

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The Close

AUGUST 3, 2023

It may seem like an easy decision to make, but there are some nuances in selecting just the right domain name for you. We’re going to walk you through all of the steps and highlight the tools you’ll need to make sure you find the absolute best domain name for your business. hereiamworldreadytosellrealestate.com. Not so fast.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Consider that developers will aim to sell 80% of the units before they ever get a shovel in the ground, both in order to get financing, but also to ensure the project is viable, but also because they want to hold back a few units to sell in 4-5 years when the project is done. It made absolutely zero sense. ” We were in shock.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

” It’s a good question and one that is going to become more common as our city moves forward and prices continue to climb. The problem is: folks like me believe that if you’re not on the property ladder, it’s going to make it exceptionally difficult to ever own property in the city.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Two weeks later, right after a long weekend, a house came out in their target search area for $1,249,000, with an offer date , and they got really excited until they realized that they probably couldn’t afford it. ” Tell me that you can’t see this happening, but trust me when I say that it does. All the time.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 11, 2022

I can already hear the complaints about this blog post on the real estate Facebook groups. Some old bird who does two deals a year is complaining because I talk openly about the fact that most realtors don’t transact? For the record, I’m not a part of any of these groups. ” Like I give a s**t.

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Broke Agent Media

MARCH 13, 2023

One thing he’s found helpful is using acronyms—mainly LLC and PPP—to make sure he accomplishes something every day for his real estate business and his content creation. This week’s Over Ask Podcast is a bit different. Your webinar hosts Joining The Broke Agent are Matt Lionetti and Brooks Landry. At the end of the day, it’s just Instagram.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The crazy thing about basketball is that the average players make obscene money! Who in the world is John Collins and why is he making $25,000,000 per year? Playing with LeBron James surely inflates your statistics and sense of self-worth, no? TorontoRealtyBlog. Do you watch basketball? I don’t. It’s crazy.

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HomeLight

MAY 16, 2022

How does this compare to yesterday? Enjoying this episode? Be sure to follow The Walkthrough to get future episodes delivered automatically: Apple Podcasts/iTunes | Spotify | YouTube. You might be a little crazy to think you can compete with Zillow and Realtor.com in Google’s search rankings. Join our Walkthrough Listener Mastermind.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

No buyer agent likes having to make this call on a Saturday night, and nobody likes losing a solid option for their buyers because of a bully offer coming in over the weekend. As a listing agent who moves the offer date, I pride myself on not wasting people’s time. TorontoRealtyBlog. Saturday evening. They stand pat.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Since we last spoke on Monday, are there any other things on your real estate mind? Any new developments? It’s only been a few days but already, I feel as though this January real estate market is going to be very slow. Well, what’s the first thing I do after I click on a new listing? That’s a bad sign!

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

I specifically didn’t post new content on Friday because I knew you’d all need to be fresh, eager, and well-rested this morning in order to power through this week’s blogs. Those long-term readers among you will recall the length of these “year-end” blog posts. It’s the end of the year!

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

There are a few ways that I could start today’s blog. You’ll see in a few moments why that makes sense. TorontoRealtyBlog. I’ve been attracted to adages, sayings, and other wordplay as of late. “No good deed goes unpunished.” “Nice guys finish last.” ” That’s also quite apt.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

What does it say when the “long weekend” feels a bit too long? But a few days later, that wore off, at least for me, it did. ” So, did any of you feel a sense of relief when you arrived at work on Tuesday morning? TorontoRealtyBlog. Too much family time? Is there such a thing? Yeah, maybe.

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HomeLight

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This week on The Walkthrough, Jesse Zagorsky shares a handful of specific NLP sales techniques that you can use to be a better communicator and make deeper connections with your clients. We talk about scripts, and role play, and making sure you know what to say in any situation — because that’s important. Full Transcript.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

An utter lifetime ago, based on the last seven years, but I think just about anybody can tell that tale. A tale that (hopefully!) most of you can’t tell is the following… We can probably all agree that many men don’t really care what they wear to a wedding, right? Like, for example, the mother of the bride? Another guest?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

I showed a house in Bloor West Village and got all excited because my clients wanted to make an offer, but that excitement was very short-lived, as the property was updated as “sold conditionally” when I got back to the office to draft the paperwork. A deal is the point.” One house was too small. The next house was too big.

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GeekEstate

DECEMBER 22, 2020

[Editor’s note: Originally published at Not Boring.]. A couple of weeks ago, Fed Novikov , the co-founder of another Not Boring portfolio company that’s using software to streamline the traditionally heavy real estate industry, Apt , told me about a company a friend of his was starting and asked if I wanted an intro. That is incredible.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 3, 2022

” The buyers pulled up at the house around 3:00pm in their moving truck and went to open the lockbox, but they found no key. TorontoRealtyBlog. I had a tough week for closings. Really tough… First, I visited a property the day before closing with clients, only to find the house was still full of junk. The front door was wide open.

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Lab Coat Agents

MAY 14, 2021

This article was originally featured on the Follow Up Boss blog. Most agents dream of the day they’re ready to make their first hire. Before you start a real estate team, make sure it’s the right business move for you. Do you have enough volume to make it work? Step 4: Use Your Intuition. Step 6: Fire Fast.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 3, 2020

But so does Conversions. My guest today is going to help make sure you are targeting the right messages to reach buyers and sellers at each stage of the funnel, the customer journey. Facebook offers almost a dozen different ways to do that. Do you want traffic? Engagement? Something else? And what about Lead Ads? Conversions?

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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. Believe it or not, this is the eighth year I’ve been working with this format; the top five blogs followed by the top five posts. That was a year in which Ms.

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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

APRIL 6, 2022

As the team’s de facto millennial punching bag, I’ve read blogs in this space enough times to know that I’m entitled to things coming easily or even being given to me, and writing a substitute blog post should be no exception. I don’t eat avocado toast as I’m mildly allergic and it makes my mouth itchy. More on this later).

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Do I bother starting with the obligatory, “I’ll try to make this post shorter this time around?” 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. ” Nah. Development.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

As I wrote in my year-end blog, my wife and I had consulted with our family doctor and resident COVID expert to put together a plan enabling us to see my mother over the holidays, and thus I haven’t been “out there” in eighteen days. That was, by far, the most “time off” I’ve had in a long, long while.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Looking back at my year-end posts from 2020, 2019, 2018, and so on, I swear I don’t think I’ve ever felt older. And with each of these topics, I could pick one and literally tell you how my senses felt… 2015: Urbancorp “stealing” their condos back. Intimately. Every year, there were five topics.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 14, 2022

How can I sum all this up succinctly and have it make sense? ” On Tuesday morning, I could barely move. 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.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In the magazine, we included two of 2021’s most popular blog posts, re-printed for clients to read for the first time, or enjoy once again. Upon reading the blog, she commented, “David is really… intense. .” ” Huh. That went from being a positive to a negative really quickly!

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

They were the stars of last week’s blog post! But at the end of the episode, after a passionate and steamy love-making session, Kimberley goes into the bathroom and stares at herself in the mirror, as we TV viewers have no clue what’s about to happen. But I’ll try not to do that ever again. Surely you do.

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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

APRIL 10, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Did I ever tell you that I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro? Coming into January of 2023, I kept saying, “If there’s product out there, this market is going to move !” Who knew that one month later, we might be thinking it was a deal ? True story. ” That was the mantra at the time.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And as tempted as I am to “name names” here on this blog today, the old adage, two wrongs don’t make a right holds true. TorontoRealtyBlog. Being a landlord is really, really difficult in Ontario in 2021. Having said that, the rules are the rules. Having said that, the rules are the rules. Many don’t, however.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

I could have played off that theme for today’s blog post and I wouldn’t have been off base. My client, who will be the subject of today’s blog, used the term “meant to be” several times over the last few days, as we both questioned whether or not there was such a thing. Serendipity.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The article does point out that Mr. Trudeau came to office with promises of “affordable housing” and has now completely changed his tune. TorontoRealtyBlog Is this a “can of worms?” ” Is it a “ticking time bomb?” ” Would “powder keg” be more appropriate to describe the situation?

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

So is it odd that I would write a blog post entitled, “Beware These Lease Clauses” if I generally work with landlords? Do you want to get excited about finding a place, only to learn two days later that you’re not “approved? .” TorontoRealtyBlog I rarely work on leases on behalf of tenants anymore.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 18, 2022

If you’re ever walking by and you see me staring at you, it’s totally cool, I’m not lurking, I’m just on the phone. I was staring out the window last Wednesday, feeling sick, envious, sad, guilty, and confused. What a cornucopia of emotions, right? I felt sick because I was sick. What was going on? Full point!!!

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