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

JULY 23, 2021

Or was he just not all that smart himself? I know that you probably wish I had continued, just for fun, and the sake of this blog. Wrong answers only… – This property brought out all the incompetent agents. If I have two, it gives me anxiety. TorontoRealtyBlog. I’m not a designer. Buy the land?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 12, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog As you can imagine, I receive a lot of emails from the blog readers. Consider the blog post from last month: “Should You Hire Your Cousin Vinny To Sell Your Condo? Consider the blog post from last month: “Should You Hire Your Cousin Vinny To Sell Your Condo?” These emails were epic!

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

There are a few ways that I could start today’s blog. “Give them an inch, they’ll take a mile.” “Give them an inch, they’ll take a mile.” Hell hath no fury like a landlord scorned. If there were no landlords, there would be a lot less rental housing. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

We’ve all read that story in the newspaper about the lovely couple bought a house after they “won” a multiple offer situation, with an extremely inferior offer, all because they wrote a lovely, heartfelt letter, right? So a letter from a prospective tenant can make all the difference. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 14, 2022

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! How can I sum all this up succinctly and have it make sense? To that end, we have a lease, er, had a lease listing which seemed to be all the rage this week. Wait, back up. The flu?

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

And that’s just to name a few. I have often stated that Canadians, over the last several years, have been so quick to give up their rights and freedoms, that I remain shocked and confused as to why. All this is necessary, apparently, in the government’s quest to solve the housing crisis. Well, alrighty-then.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

Really, and truly, this blog story is an example of: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, and at the worst possible time… Mickey and Mallory are clients of mine that underscore the true meaning of the phrase “clients for life.” The property was part of a row of eight similar properties, all built in 2002.

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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. ” So, thank you to all those who regularly keep in contact, or who have emailed me just that one time. Don’t put anything in writing, ever! True story.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Not only are my fingers tired from writing Monday’s blog, but also from hand-writing three-hundred Christmas cards! And lots of links to blog posts in each section too. TorontoRealtyBlog. Cards and envelopes! Yes, I do that. I do it with pride. 4) Real Estate Commissions. 2) CMHC, The Bank of Canada, & Monetary Policy.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Wow, y’all went all out on last Friday’s blog! Thank you for all the comments, suggestions, and excellent insights posted in the comments section that I read with glee over the weekend as I typed out my list of the “Top Ten” discussion points for the fall market. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Notorious ROB

DECEMBER 29, 2022

They may or may not be influential, may or may not be powerful, and in fact, you may or may not have heard of them at all. Eric Wu, Founder and former CEO of Opendoor, was one of the first names on the Seven Most Interesting People list back in 2015. First of all, he was the CEO when Opendoor posted a billion dollar loss in Q3.

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GeekEstate

JANUARY 3, 2022

And then, well, it all came to a screeching halt. With the DOJ threatening to divorce commissions , Zillow gobbling up ShowingTime’s lock on some of the most valuable data in existence , and PE’s infiltration of CoreLogic , it feels like the MLS establishment is being attacked from all sides. We almost turned the corner on Covid-19.

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Marco Santarelli

APRIL 30, 2021

After all, manufacturing more land is impossible. First of all, you need to consider what type of real estate suits your tastes and needs. However, the possibility of losing it all is always lurking in the back of investors' minds because, as with any investment, there is risk involved. Both of these beliefs are dead wrong.

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