PRESENTED BY:Tom and Kerrie Everitt

DEXTER ASSOCIATES REALTY--www.thinktom.com.com

 

INCREDIBLE NEW LISTING!!!

Bowen Thomas Everitt

Price:  Priceless

Lot Size: 9lbs 12 oz

Year built: 2007

Construction: 5hrs. 23 mins. of very painful labour.

Foundation: Very solid

Exterior: Smooth, gorgeous skin, brown eyes.

Landscaping: Beautiful brown hair.

Ceiling Height: 21 inches

Plumbing:  Works very well

Fuel Type: Plenty of breast milk

Heat: Natural gas

Floor Area:  Messy. 

Warranty:  Life time (or at least until he’s a teenager).

Water

Two years ago I wrote a column for the Vancouver Sun on 'The Bubble'.  I made the column as humourous as I could and yet still get my point through that I, indeed, did not think that there was any bubble present in the Vancouver Real Estate Market.  I pointed out various economic fundementals that were present in Vancouver (and still are) and I backed up my writings with statistics as well.

My biggest point, however, was simple.  The glass is either half empty or half full for real estate investors in this Province.  The world's leading economists have absolutely no idea what is going to happen in six months.  Canada's leading

Here is a copy of a letter I wrote to Maclean's magazine regarding an article on real estate commissions. 

 

The subject of real estate commissions is far more extensive than anything Shelly Sanders attempted to investigate in her article entitled ‘Money for nothing, lawn sign for free’ (Real Estate Reality, Jan 7) and the list of incorrect assumptions in the article is lengthy. 

To begin with, describing any top agents marketing skills as 'tossing the dice' immediately suggests the author did not take much time researching what it takes for successful real estate agents such as Robert Greenberg to be in their position. 

I recently had a story submitted to my other website, www.truerealestatestories.com that involved the apparent greediness of a home seller in Australia.  According to the writer, the owner refused to sell the home at the price agreed upon and held out for more money.  After the writer refused to buy the property at the elevated price, the owner, later, had to eventually sell it at a substantially reduced price, causing approx. $20,000.00 in losses.

Wow.  I thought to myself, we here in Vancouver must truly live in a different world because this kind of a story is absolutely nothing compared to what we've seen here over the