The competition bureau has launched an aggressive offensive on the livelihoods of 98,000 or so licensed Realtors. They have found that CREA (the Canadian Real Estate Association) is anti-competitive and restrictive in blocking several options which may benefit the consumer. The two greatest points are the prevention of direct access to the seller (not publishing [...]
Time to Shut Down Realtor.ca
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Tell Jim Flaherty where to go
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008The Feds are looking for some input from you regarding the 2009 Federal Budget. You can click this link to get to their online survey. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver has some ideas for you if you are stuck on what to say and they come from two initiatives that CREA (the Canadian [...]
Gordon Campbell has a Plan
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008The Provincial race is unofficially launched as Premier Gordon Campbell has come out with a four point plan that if it could be summed up in a single word then I’d call it unorthodox. First he is messing with the rules of the RRSP allowing those over 71 years old to keep them going and [...]
Did you get on the List?
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Are you on the do not call list? If not then you can get yourself registered https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/ More to the point do you even care about the o not call list? I don’t. I don’t get unsolicited phone calls except when there is an election coming up and then I get calls from all sorts [...]
The New Budget and You
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Definitely a couple of very noteworthy points for we BC residents. Some very good news, some not so good. Let’s get the “somewhere in between” news out of the way. The big news, the green one (Haha, Finance Minister Carole Taylor was all decked out in green including her John Fluevog shoes – Photo Credit [...]
First Time Home Buyer’s Brochure
Thursday, January 24th, 2008The BC Ministry of Small Business and Revenue has produced a small brochure which aims to educate the first time buyer with respect to taxes collected or exempted. You can download it here or read the following which is taken from it. Some very important points to consider, and that likely many are ignoring, relate [...]
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