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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.

The Next Wave of US Foreclosures is Coming!

I just read an article on MSNBC the other day about the upcoming batch of foreclosures in the US housing market and it’s still rather scary south of the border. Some of the numbers that stand out are that there … Continue reading

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Why Foreclosures May Not Be a Great Real Estate Investment Strategy

First off, you need to understand if you are searching for a foreclosure property in Alberta on the MLS either to buy as a home for yourself or to flip you will most likely be disappointed with the results. By … Continue reading

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Some Great Advice From a Former Rapper

I’m a huge Will Smith fan. I really admire what he has done and how he has grown from his start as a rapper to a fantastic actor and obviously great person. In the following video are some excerpts from … Continue reading

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Why Tenants Are Not Your Friends

the relationship between tenants and landlords is first and foremost based on business, don’t forget this and allow your tenants to become friends unless your pocketbook and bank account can afford it! Continue reading

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Money Makes Real Estate Investing Easy

Think about that one for a moment, money makes Real Estate investing easy. When Karen and I started out, we had a small line of credit, a bit of cash saved up and some huge goals. Along the way, we … Continue reading

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Do the New Mortgage Rules Help?

With the recent headlines about the new mortgage rules you may have thought there were going to be some sweeping changes, fortunately these changes have only resulted in minor tightening. If you haven’t been paying attention, here are the changes … Continue reading

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More Housing Bubble Insights

With today’s update on the changes to mortgages for homeowners this is plenty of questions forming about what is happening in the Real Estate markets. Is the current situation the start of a bubble? Are we getting into danger where … Continue reading

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Is It Fair? Or Am I a Jerk?

I get an email out of the blue from someone I hadn’t had contact with in the last several years (other than asking to be removed from the blog as it didn’t interest him anymore),  looking for some information on … Continue reading

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Are Changes Coming to the MLS?

I originally wrote about some possible pending changes coming to the current MLS system for my Chestermere Anchor Real Estate column back in December and suddenly other folks are starting to get on the bandwagon. I am including it below, … Continue reading

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It’s Back Up!

Wow, after what seemed like forever (at least to me) I managed to get the blog back up and running. Not sure what exactly happened, might have been the host changing some servers around, may have been a plugin for … Continue reading

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New Investors Coming Out of the Woodwork!

I’ve been off the posting wagon here for the last little bit and haven’t put anything up new for a whole week, don’t worry, I haven’t disappeared, I’ve just been busy. It appears that over the last month, more and … Continue reading

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Spam, Rich Dad and The Secret?

I have a few topics to cover all of a sudden and after an email from a subscriber last week, I will start with spam. Strangely enough, when people subscribe to the blog, they get updates on new posts. True … Continue reading

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More Tenant Screening Advice

I follow a fellow by the name of Bill Gray who is known as “The Landlord Doctor”. He is a seasoned debt collector and has some great advice about screening tenants in the following article. I’ve mentioned some of this … Continue reading

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Calgary Ranks as 23rd Most Affordable City in Canada

The Winnipeg based Frontier Centre released it’s report on housing affordability recently and proclaimed Calgary was ranked 23rd out of the 28 cities in their affordability index. The number one cities for affordability were Windsor and Thunder Bay. Can anyone … Continue reading

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Evictions Are Popular These Days

I had hoped to have my eviction package all complete by now, but time has managed to get away from me and the project keeps expanding. Currently I am just finishing page four of the outline up, I already have … Continue reading

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