Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 14, 2022

I don’t know if the two drinks were a factor, but the two-hour show was just ending as my wife came down, and I started to weep a little bit. Like a timeline of my childhood, teenage years, and into my young adulthood. After every victory in the ring, he stuffed a $100-bill into the mouth of his defeated opponent.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 15, 2023

I’ve been with Bosley Real Estate my entire career; almost two decades. And I found that I didn’t need to ask another agent a question; it was almost like the moment one popped into my head, somebody was there to provide advice, experience, and guidance. Whether that help is asked for or merely given, need not matter.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I’m on an honesty streak of late, so let me admit the following: after choosing the title of today’s blog, I came to realize that I don’t actually know what the idiom, “grasping at straws,” refers to. So where does “grasping at straws” come from? So now what? Love it!

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

When last we spoke, I had just obtained a bully offer on my listing for a whopping $1,600,000, and had emailed the 55 other showing agents that we intended to work with the offer that evening. I think three minutes would have been my bet. It took five minutes for my phone to ring, and I know this because I was counting.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This has been in my queue for a while, and upon reading the story two more times today, it’s even more shocking than it was in October when I flagged it. This is where one of the most shocking stories I’ve seen in years comes into play. Maybe some of you have already read this. First, what in the world is TARION?

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Notorious ROB

JANUARY 3, 2023

At the same time, I marveled at the quality of argument the author, Jerusalem Demsas, was putting forward. ” Even as a piece of polemic, a piece of propaganda put together for the World Economic Forum, the piece was lacking. There is good news, however. The Argument, Or What Passes For It.

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Lab Coat Agents

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Originally Featured On The Follow Up Boss Blog. Where to Get Real Estate Leads Post-2020. Start a blog. Where to Get Real Estate Leads Post-2020. #1. Ask your average Realtor what the best source of free leads is and you’ll probably hear one of two replies: Cold calling. Door knocking. But let’s be real.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

The listing prices are all over the place, but they’re getting advice from Brian on where each property should be selling, and they’ve got a somewhat efficient system. Brian kept telling them, “This is how the market works, you put your best foot forward,” but they were seriously discouraged. “Hello?

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Easy Agent Pro

JANUARY 27, 2021

The reality is that as long as real estate agents refuse to delegate to experts the marketing aspects of their business that they aren’t good at, there will be embarrassing listing descriptions, really bad blog posts and they’ll use lame real estate slogan ideas. Most have what one marketer refers to as “nonsense branding.”. See what I mean?

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The Close

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When I worked in real estate in Manhattan, I noticed a pattern among my fellow agents: The people who complained about working 80-hour weeks weren’t closing very many deals. Time management is one of those soft skills that most agents put off learning until they realize that the more stressed they are, the harder it is to sell real estate.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

My goal of completing both posts by the start of the long weekend was never even close, but at least it came in handy as an excuse when I really, really needed to get out of the house on Monday. That was one of the toughest experiences of my adult life. Guess which article came through my news feed for a second time last week?

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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. Looking back at previous iterations of this feature, my stomach churns a little as I remember each topic vividly. My daughter was pulling at my shirt. TorontoRealtyBlog. Intimately.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

It’s one of those things that I started kidding about in my early 20’s, which was the early-2000’s, and thus wasn’t all that long removed from 1994. My father used to say, “You have to be able to laugh at yourself,” and thus I like to say things that subject myself to ridicule. ” Yes.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

And we did this to start off January 2021, not just as a stand-alone blog, or even a two-part series, but rather a three-part series that spanned the entire first week back! Put it on in the background, all day, all night. What was the most eventful moment of my winter break? I mean, “Burning Questions” again?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

Well, maybe Thursday’s blog was a mouthful. All that time off over the holidays without an outlet for my thoughts – both about real estate, and not, and you had to know that the first blog back in January would be lengthy. It’s blogs like these that often make me feel guilty of being unoriginal, however.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As a society, we’ve increasingly bubble-wrapped our children to protect them from the cruel, cruel world, but given my kids are not yet camp-age, I don’t know what activities are offered out there in 2022. Toward the end of the month, one of my counselors challenged me to shoot a Coca-Cola can after he threw it in the air.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

Pandemonium is a little too crazy for my liking. Wheres the word “mayhem” could almost make it as a sports team name – think the Michigan Mayhem and what their jersey and logo would look like, chaos just takes things to the next level. .” It’s a great word, it really is. Then, there’s chaos.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Perhaps the following is less of a “how to” and more of a “listen to my story!” I can be quick to judge, although in fairness, my judgments are usually correct. I can be quick to judge, although in fairness, my judgments are usually correct. TorontoRealtyBlog. Who are those people like me?

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

It’s not, it seems, since a colleague emailed me the link to the Auditor General’s value-for-money audit on RECO this week and said, “You have to check out this scathing report.” The most interesting part of this report, in my opinion, had to do with RECO’s finances. ” Scathing, eh?

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The Close

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Read my CINC review to see how I’ve ranked this lead generation platform and to help you decide if it’s worth adding to your real estate toolbox. My favorite feature for 2024 is the AI bot, Alex. After 28 years in real estate, I have tested almost every real estate software available—some were good, some really bad!

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GeekEstate Agents & Brokers

MARCH 6, 2022

For our 200th Transmission (wow…that’s a lot), I thought I’d reach for a blast from the past and modernize the most read article ever on Geek Estate Blog , written all the way back in 2014. Some links included below are to members-only articles.]. Redfin was founded with customer service as its core tenant.

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Brokerage Agents Pre-approval Industrial 77

Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Questioning how in the world my daughter can watch Frozen every single weekend, I almost forget how many times I watched and re-watched the same movies and television shows as a child. My mother would even edit out the television commercials that constantly interrupted these films. It’s where so many of us are going.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Active prospecting, as the name suggests, is a more direct and aggressive approach where agents proactively reach out to potential clients. Real estate prospecting is a necessary activity for agents aiming to build a robust pipeline of buyer and seller leads. It could be next week, it could be next year.

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HomeLight

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In between mouthfuls of corn on the cob and burgers it seems just about everyone is discussing their new home or their hunt for one. Where do you even begin? What if you already cut cable at home to save money? If your score isn’t where you want it to be, don’t worry. How much to put down. Deep breaths.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I know I don’t actually write blogs on a retro typewriter like the one in the photo above, but I really, really liked that picture… I do wear glasses when I write, however. In this space last year, I penned over 5,000 words about the “top blog posts” of 2022. And perhaps outside too.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

If I put the word “sigh” in brackets, will WordPress populate a tired, frustrated, emotionally-withdrawn emoji? Just one more thing I have to handle on my own… We are only one week into the fall real estate market and already it’s feeling like November. TorontoRealtyBlog. Is there an emoji for that?

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GeekEstate

JANUARY 11, 2021

No matter where you stand in the debate about the causes of climate change, it’s coming. They are putting their money where their mouth is: Fifth Wall recently hired Greg Smithies from BMW iVentures to co-lead the Climate Technology Investment team and is raising a $200 million climate fund. BY DREW MEYERS.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

In our new offices here at 103 Vanderhoof Avenue, my voice certainly carries a lot more than it did when we were at 290 Merton Street. At the old office, my team basically had the basement to ourselves. Not when I have two people in my crosshairs who both need to shut their yaps. However, it’s not going to stop me.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 30, 2021

The headline alone was enough for me to shake my fist at the computer screen, and not because of my occupation and that this headline hits me personally, but because I know where these sentiments are going: “Realtors Are Making Big Money Flipping Houses. ” Consider me guilty. But Should They?”

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