It’s only been a few years since I first saw a serious home surveillance system installed in a Saskatoon home I’d been hired to market and sell. It was an impressive and sophisticated system that enabled the home owner to look in and listen to what was happening in their home while they were away. [...]
I’m a bit disturbed by the increasing occurrences of verbal negotiations in the real estate business in Saskatoon. Verbal proposals are most often brought forward at the counter offer stage with comments like, “We really don’t want to waste your time, so would you speak with your client and find out if X is acceptable [...]
The Multiple Listing Service® is a system that real estate brokerages use to share information with each other about properties that are for sale. It provides us with opportunities to quickly share details about our listings with all local agents who participate and it also provides us with a large inventory of homes that we [...]
This post makes the “just for fun” category for the featured video’s surprise ending. If you start the video, please see it through to the end. By way of Brendan King’s Twitter stream. As a licensed Asian, I found this particular misunderstanding quite amusing and so did the other Asians in my office, but discriminatory [...]
“Marty Ummel feels she paid too much for her house. So do millions of other people who bought at the peak of the housing boom. “What makes Ms. Ummel different is that she is suing her agent, saying it was all his fault.” I came by this story from today’s New York Times by way [...]
I came across an interesting “Letter to the Editor” in yesterday’s Star Phoenix which I wanted to touch on. The letter was submitted by Maureen Shebelski, a Saskatoon resident and mother. Maureen’s decrial of the current state of the Saskatoon real estate market is a testimonial to her social conscience and it’s obvious that her [...]
This is not exactly important real estate news but I couldn’t resist writing a small snip about this story. It seems that the popular A&E reality program, “Flip This House” has run a number of episodes which amount to nothing more than a sham. Featuring self proclaimed “real estate developer” Sam Leccima, the episodes represent [...]
The front page of today’s Star Phoenix says, “Tenants feel pinch: Heated market driving increases in rental charges.” The story references the predicament of a Saskatoon woman, Marilyn LePage who faces her third rent increase in the last twelve months. She has written a letter to city council asking, “What can be done to keep [...]
If you’ve visited my blog before, chances are you’ve caught on to the fact that I’m very concerned about a practice which is occurring regularly which I believe is deceptive and hurtful to both buyers and sellers. It goes like this; the agent lists the seller’s property and promises to give the home full exposure [...]
You may have heard me chirp once, or even twice about a practice which is occurring all too often in this fast moving Saskatoon real estate market. I’m talking about MLS® listings which magically sell before they’re even submitted to the MLS® system. It seems that everyday there are several new listings which have been [...]
Sharon, a real estate investor from Calgary, Alberta occasionally visits my blog. If I recall correctly, she contacted me after she read one of my little rants about poor quality images in real estate listings. From time to time, she forwards copies of listed properties which strike her as ridiculous in some way. She has [...]
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