Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

I’ve been writing blogs now for almost fourteen years, and although I’ve only ever had two RECO complaints in that time, I’m aware that organized real estate is watching. TorontoRealtyBlog. Does the public want to read the following? Does organized real estate want this floating around out there? Probably not.

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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.” When I hear “scathing” I usually think of the word “report” along with it. ” Scathing, eh?

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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 ? Maybe a button to click on each post to nominate for a year-end award, although what reader is going to be clicking that button that in January? This just narrowly beat out a blog called “The Friday Rant: Stop Talking!

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

I know what I know and I like what I like. I asked, “Dad, what happened?” I’m a routine type of guy. I get accustomed to certain ways, processes, and comforts, and to uproot all that would send me into a tizzy. ” He simply replied, “ We bought it.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Thanks to the readers for commenting on Friday’s blog and providing some suggestions for topics this week. One reader asked what a question that felt like it was posted with a little nerviness. Two years ago, I asked in a blog post, “How long have you been reading TRB? ” Fun idea, in theory.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

I wanted to call this blog post, “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda,” but by the time you finish reading it, you’ll be sick to your stomach. And any wishful buyer out there, upon seeing what I’m about to show you, will only conclude that I’m a sadistic ass for rubbing, “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda” in their face.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 26, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I honestly can’t remember the first time I heard the term, “bully offer.” ” I know it was before I heard the term “pre-emptive offer,” since the latter was a term invented to soften the concept of bullying in the context of submitting an offer. I’m not sure.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I mentioned in an Instagram video earlier this week that I have been writing on Toronto Realty Blog for fifteen years. And some three-thousand blog posts later, the number-one question I’ve always been asked and continue to be asked is this: “How do you come up with topics to write three times per week? TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

But then as I’m wondering, I’ll have one, two, or ten experiences that are “blog-worthy,” and that wonder goes from concern to impossibility. But then as I’m wondering, I’ll have one, two, or ten experiences that are “blog-worthy,” and that wonder goes from concern to impossibility.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 17, 2023

I mean, I write a blog on Monday about “the worst experience of my career,” and you ask for more ! Blog reader Cyber asked me to rank them by category! So who am I to deprive you of what you really want, even if it’s opening up some old wounds? And I say that with love. You, specifically, the TRB readers.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

The last house they bid on was listed for $999,900 and they felt it could sell upwards of $1,400,000, but they were only able to offer their max: $1,300,000. The house received eight offers and sold for $1,355,000. They had now made three offers and lost three times. ” asks the sleazy salesperson. range, broadly speaking.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 10, 2021

I was showing houses in Roncesvalles on Saturday and agent who was waiting outside with his clients, having the appointment after us, shouted, “Hey man, you’re the blog guy. I don’t quite think of myself as “the blog guy,” but what the heck. ” He threw his head back and said, “What?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

Ask any parent what this is like and the opinions and methodology will be all over the place. Maybe we’ll get on that this summer… So what happened, folks? As in, our brand-new, built-from-the-ground-up home that had never been occupied by anybody. “Our basement is flooded,” she said. Wait… flooded ?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 13, 2021

What’s worse: cheerleading or gaslighting? Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that properties in Toronto do increase in value this year. And perhaps they increase in value the following year too. What good then would be the counter-argument of “This is only happening because of low interest rates?”

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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. ” But what if you had both ? ” But what if you had both ? But a can in the air?

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

I’m not gonna lie; I was thinking about today’s blog topic when I woke up this morning. What the hell did I know? What a song. And whether you know what “the Moskova” is or where “Gorky Park” is located, it need not matter. Patience , by Guns N Roses. I was eight !

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

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. March 9th, 2020, I wrote this blog: “February TREB Stats: Chaos Is A Ladder” The market did feel, by definition, chaotic.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

So my mother, smart, frugal, and caring as she was, would always check the TV Guide to see what movies were on that week, and would record or “tape” every movie she could on one of these Beta-Max cassettes. What was that even like? TorontoRealtyBlog. Sometimes, I forget that I was once a child too. How awesome was that?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 18, 2021

This story is a cautionary tale for would-be buyers out there, whether because they are slow to adapt, slow to accept, choose to hear what they want to hear, or only see what they want to see. What’s the downside for them, really? In this case, the story is about a would-be buyer , a couple, in fact.

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