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OK, so I made it through May, now if I can only get through June. It seems to be one thing after another. Catching up on postponed maintenance issues, couple of vacancies popping up, some troubles with shared accommodation tenants, … Continue reading →

If you are you are just in time for my shameless plug for my wife’s art work. Her group, the Riverview Artist’s Group is having an art sale and display on the plus 15 level of the TransCanada Pipeline Building … Continue reading →

This event is coming up next Tuesday and I picked a horrible time to send the info out last weekend as many of you seemed to be away for the long weekend and came back to mounds of email I … Continue reading →

Up to 1,100 GM dealers closing in the US, 789 Chrysler franchises are also getting shuttered. Rumor has it GM is going to even get taken off of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Sure North American car manufacturers have been … Continue reading →

The stock market is making huge gains today – Monday The market has lost all the gains from the previous day – Tuesday The stock market has had its biggest single gain today this year! – The Following Week The … Continue reading →

Just a few quick comments on oil prices which have been starting to move upwards over the last little while. Initially this appears to be a great thing, but there are a couple hiccups. We trade barrels of oil in … Continue reading →

Alberta’s new employment stats came out and it shows Alberta has hit an unemployment rate of 5.8%, our highest level since 1997 when it hit 5.9%. This number is probably low due to the number of contractors and self employed … Continue reading →

“Real Estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be taken away.  Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it’s the safest investment in the world.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

Once again, it looks like it’s all over, Alberta blew another boom. With news like this is there any hope for the millions of people who call Alberta home?  Before we all get too carried away (and especially if you … Continue reading →

A friend just sent this link to me that provides a visual representation of what a trillion dollars look like. After you walk through the web page the final graphic represents the amount of money that just the US is … Continue reading →

We keep hearing about the financial crisis and people are constantly wondering how long the economic crisis will last, but rarely do you find a good explanation of how this all started.   Thanks to Desmond for sending me this … Continue reading →

As many of you know I write a weekly Real estate article for the Chestermere Anchor which goes out to the Chestermere, Langdon, Strathmore region. Every now and then I write an article there that I also put on the … Continue reading →

Wow, 129,000 jobs, the obvious implications are that Canada may have some serious troubles ahead. With this kind of information as a headline in many of the papers people all over Canada must be awakening to the problems we are … Continue reading →