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About admin

Bill has been investing in Calgary Real Estate since 2003 and has been writing about various Real Estate topics since shortly after he started. With a significant amount of Real Estate transactions and experiences he is able to pass his knowledge on to other investors and partners, and now you through his Real Estate blog. To automatically receive new posts, be sure to sign up on the top right of this page and I will send you a free ebook on Screening Tenants.

What To Do With Your Variable Rate Mortgage

Posted on July 6, 2011 by admin

Should You Lock Your Variable Rate Mortgage? Wondering when to lock in your variable rate mortgage, or what your lock in options are? If that is one of the mortgage questions you have right now you might find this video … Continue reading →

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Canada vs. Alberta vs. Your District

Posted on June 30, 2011 by admin

Canada Is One Vast Country If you haven’t noticed, we are one darn large country. With over 9 million square kilometres of land, almost 10 million square kilometres of total area and over 156 thousand miles of border we take … Continue reading →

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Bing, Bang, Boom

Posted on June 27, 2011 by admin

Here is an assortment of topics and items that were on my mind and occurring around us last week. Bing – Interest Rates May Be Stable For a While! There are some rumours out there the Bank of Canada may … Continue reading →

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Dealing With Professional Tenants

Posted on June 16, 2011 by admin

Professional Tenants Understand the System If you aren’t familiar with the term, you would think a professional tenant is just someone with no intent on ever owning and intending on staying a tenant forever. Talk to a landlord who has … Continue reading →

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Why The US Housing Market Won’t Correct Itself In the Near Future

Posted on June 10, 2011 by admin

US Housing Market Set To Suffer For Several Years The US Real Estate market seems to be a constant source of conversations lately. With the meltdown the market went through over the last several years, many areas of the US … Continue reading →

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BoC Interest Rate Announcement

Posted on June 1, 2011 by admin

Bank of Canada Interest Rates Stay at 1% Sort of. On Tuesday, the Bank of Canada made its rate announcement and kept the rate unchanged at 1%. This is the rate at which banks borrow their money and base their … Continue reading →

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When You Are On a Roll

Posted on May 26, 2011 by admin

Thanks for all the great feedback and comments on my previous article about When Being a Landlord Sucks. I was thinking about calling this post “When Being an Investor Sucks”, but the jury is still out. To set up the … Continue reading →

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When Being a Landlord Sucks

Posted on May 22, 2011 by admin

The Police Called About a Tenant It was about 11:30 this morning when the police officer called me. I had already signed one new tenant into a shared accommodation and another out and was in the process of fixing two … Continue reading →

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Has Spring Finally Thawed? And Will The Real Estate Market Too?

Posted on May 19, 2011 by admin

Did everyone make it through the winter intact? Because I believe, it may actually be spring. It’s been a few weeks since we actually saw snow and the warmer temperatures have allowed the huge snow piles to all finally melt … Continue reading →

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Politics, Housing & The Future

Posted on May 11, 2011 by admin

The Effect of Of Politics on the Housing Market The recent statistics for April’s Real Estate market for the Calgary region have just come out and surprisingly, the sales numbers have actually decreased compared to the year before. When you … Continue reading →

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Homeowners Frustrations When Selling Their Home

Posted on May 11, 2011 by admin

Home Selling Frustrations It’s tough out there right now if you are trying to sell a property. There are still significant amounts of inventory for buyers to choose from and it’s putting buyers in the driver’s seat. Couple this with … Continue reading →

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Landlord Challenges

Posted on April 29, 2011 by admin

What Are Your Landlord Challenges? $100 oil seems to be rather good for the economy. The economic activity created by this surge in prices is rippling through the province and is only in the early stages of generating increased job … Continue reading →

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Buying A Condo In The U.S?

Posted on April 21, 2011 by admin

Purchasing US Property – A Caveat I had an excellent conversation with one of my readers the other day regarding purchasing a condo in Las Vegas and it reminded me of some very interesting points that many buyers don’t think … Continue reading →

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More Potential US Real Estate Worries

Posted on April 11, 2011 by admin

US Mortgage And Foreclosure Issues I’ve talked a few times about how the US Real Estate market still has plenty of turbulence to go through before it recovers. This recent 60 Minutes report points out some new issues that may … Continue reading →

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Jobs Up, Unemployment Down

Posted on April 8, 2011 by admin

Just a quick post today, lot’s going on! Some of the employment statistics just came out and the news is pretty optimistic for Alberta. Calgary saw the unemployment rate drop to 6.1% from 6.3% in February. Now the background story … Continue reading →

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