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

MARCH 9, 2022

But based on the blogs I’ve written so far in 2022 and where my head’s been at, I have to think that one of the stories of the year, by the end of the year, will be about agents in this market, specifically buyer agents, as I’ve written about now at least three times. Winter isn’t over yet, folks. Not even close.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

I hope your mind doesn’t automatically go to “pink jobs” and “blue jobs” when you hear this, or that you assume I’m running my family like a quaint 1950’s household. TorontoRealtyBlog My wife and I have a very good and very well-understood and agreed-upon division of labour in our household.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Fair warning: this is one of those blogs where some people read it and then comment, “What hell are you complaining for, David? Fair warning: this is one of those blogs where some people read it and then comment, “What hell are you complaining for, David? Shut up and do your job!” Fair is fair.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

As you’ll see in today’s blog, many of the reasons for cancelations are often rooted in the same problems that caused delays, but some are extensions, and some are completely different reasons altogether. If you close your eyes and picture the northwest corner of Bloor and Dundas in Roncesvalles, what do you see?

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AUGUST 21, 2020

When I got into the business in 2004, I didn’t have many “nice clothes.” bungalow in shorts and a polo-shirt, but that was to my mother , so it’s all good… I’m blessed to have more business than I can handle, literally. TorontoRealtyBlog. I wore a suit every day for a decade. Maybe more.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Not only are my fingers tired from writing Monday’s blog, but also from hand-writing three-hundred Christmas cards! What’s the point of sending a holiday card if it’s obvious that your assistant or some high school kid wrote them for you? 3) The Business Of Real Estate And The Real Estate Industry.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

What I found more interesting than anything else with respect to Monday’s blog post was just how many people emailed me directly, compared to how many commented on the blog. TorontoRealtyBlog. I think that the post resonated with a lot of people that work in government, as I heard from five different people. ” No way.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I didn’t write about this experience until more than a year later, but if you missed it, I poured my heart out during a 3-part blog series, which started from our first failed offer in the mayhem of 2017 and culminated with the purchase of a house in an area we had never considered, more than one year later: “We Bought A House!”

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This was before the Internet, mind you. This was before the Internet, mind you. My friend Jeff and I signed up for magic class in the “after-4 program” at Bessborough Public School in 1990, and of course, we were promptly kicked out for being annoying, loud, obnoxious kids who ruined the class for everybody else.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Many of you have been approached over the years by that supposedly deep-pocketed developer who is going to give you 300% of fair market value for your home so he can build townhouses or condos, only to have your dreams quashed days, weeks, or months later. Because that is my business. This city is my business.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Oh, the stories I could share, if only I had my own television show, radio program, podcast, or……… blog? Because what I saw, with my very own eyes, was other employees taking down about half of the stickers on the wall. TorontoRealtyBlog. Because that unit had sold. What would you do? That was her mistake.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

So perhaps I have no leg on which to stand here. “Blogging” is essentially the lowest form of journalism, if you can even call it journalism. Not knowing something, or even worse, not caring , has never been more en vogue. After all, is there any actual news out there anymore? ” I’m a blogger.

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JULY 30, 2021

I’ll be the old guy on the front porch yelling, “Slow down!” ” Then I’ll go inside, read the entire newspaper, and grumble to myself at the state of the world detailed on those inky pages. ” Consider me guilty. But I just can’t help it. You’ve heard this line of reasoning from me before.

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