Achieve The Ultimate Career with Us

Posted on June 27, 2008 by remaxultimate

The final touches are being completed and it’s with great pleasure that I will be launching a personal coaching program that will be offered by me personally.  It’s called “Achieve the Ultimate” and it will be a weekly coaching class for agents interested in reaching the next level.  I’ve gathered all the material over my [...]

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FINTRAC is Here-Interested in Buying a house? Bring ID

Posted on June 24, 2008 by remaxultimate

This was the heading in the newspaper a few days ago.  As of June 23 2008, the FINTRAC Federal regulations that oversee money laundering in Canada has taken effect.  Now  all Realtors are required to ask for the name, address, date of birth and occupation of property buyers and sellers, plus ID such as a [...]

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Buyer Registry System – Are you using it??

Posted on June 19, 2008 by remaxultimate

Over the last couple of weeks I have received calls from a couple of our agents about buyers that have approached them to purchase properties they had personally listed for sale.  You would assume that this is great and 99.9% of the time, it usually is.  Even though they pre-approved and covered all the bases, unexpectedly, just after closing they [...]

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REMAX Ultimate University

Posted on June 17, 2008 by remaxultimate

When I was in my teen years my father approached me and made a statement that impacted my life.  At a time in my life when we are the most impressionable, he said “show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are”. When I took a step back, looked within and assessed where I am in my [...]

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Realtors Beware-Commission and the Condo Deal

Posted on June 14, 2008 by remaxultimate

Traditionally when an agent sells a property, they wait until the closing date to receive their commission.  This is not the case when it comes to new condominium sales.  Because many new Condo developments take years to be to be completed and there is a certain amount of pre sales needed for financing before construction starts, developers [...]

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Toronto Condo Grow Ops

Posted on June 3, 2008 by remaxultimate

It seems like no property is immune from the potential grow operation scenario.  Recently, one of our agents sold a vacant condominium that was for sale with another Brokerage. The Buyer was ecstatic as this was her first ever purchase but this emotion was quickly replaced with concern when her request to arrange insurance was denied 2 weeks before closing.  It [...]

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