Tag Archives: Real Estate investments

When You Are On a Roll

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

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?

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

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

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

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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Jobs Up, Unemployment Down

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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Want To Learn How To Sell a Rental Property?

It seems to be another busy week here for me and due to that, I have been negligent with my posting. Between preparing a rental property for sale, the kids out for spring break and half a dozen other projects … Continue reading

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Outrageous Mortgage Payments in The News Again

Having been the recipient of some outrageous mortgage payout penalties in the past I have a rather jaded opinion of this practice that banks are using to provide themselves with a tidy little cash windfall. I’ve previously written about mortgage … Continue reading

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Peering Into The Real Estate Crystal Ball

Every now and then I like to do a little crystal ball forecasting by looking at the developments around us and then taking an educated guess as to where this will lead us. While it would be nice to have … Continue reading

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A Crappy Situation – Investing in Older Properties

Dealing With Sewer Problems Just thought I would throw this out so it doesn’t come as a surprise to you, but simply put, sewer problems are crappy! I’m probably not alone in thinking this, but if any of you reading … Continue reading

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Integrity In Real Estate

Integrity What a fantastic morning! Nothing like a few hours of vacuuming rooming house floors, finding, dust bunnies the size of actual bunnies, old toenails to suck up and spills in a room that you just cannot imagine how they … Continue reading

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Secondary Suites – Petty Little People

Calgary Secondary Suite Issue There is a hot new topic being discussed in Calgary right now and its revolving around secondary suites. Our new mayor, Naheed Nenshi, is behind a proposal that would legalize secondary suites in almost every district … Continue reading

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More Bad Housing News!

Alberta Households At Risk! Apparently Alberta households are among the most vulnerable in Canada and have the greatest potential risk to negative economic occurrences. This is directly from a report released by TD Economics and says Alberta is second only … Continue reading

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Today’s humorous tenant email

You can tell things are picking up for our shared accommodation properties by the number of humorous emails I get. It’s always fun to observe that people will go above and beyond when it comes to overlooking the obvious. Today’s … Continue reading

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