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Housing affordability has been all the buzz lately. When you go onto Google and type “housing affordability in Canada,” it brings up 31,100,000 searches! During the recent election, the Federal parties shared their bright ideas of how they were going to solve the housing problem and create affordable housing for all Canadians. As a side…

Fast forward, skip ahead, or see into the future. If we could do this in business or real estate investing, all of us would be highly successful in timing the market and we would be winning big! Let me give you a peek into the future when it comes to investing in real estate. Canada’s…

I often tell myself, “Be curious like a child, Randy.” Remember when you would tug on your mom or dad’s pant leg and you would ask those never-ending “why” questions: “Why this?” and, “Why that?” Eventually, it would get to the point where your mom or dad would hope that you stop asking curious question…

I was recently reading previous blog articles I had written over the past few years regarding Canada Day. As I was revisiting these articles, I was reminded about my love of being a Canadian. What an amazing country we live in! From the sheer beauty, universal healthcare, social infrastructure, the diversity, and the opportunity of…

My beautiful wife, Jolene, is a passionate walker, and always has been. When we met in the fall of 1985, Jo introduced this concept of walking to me: walking for exercise, clearing her head, getting college supplies, and of course, romantic walks around Abbotsford. I personally was never much of a walker, nor did I…

What came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg. No, the chicken. No, the egg. No, the chicken. I am getting dizzy trying to solve this riddle. Scientists, that are much smarter than me, concluded that many moons ago, there was a chicken-like bird. This chicken-like bird laid an egg and a rooster-like bird…

Today, everyone everywhere is talking about the white-hot real estate market all the time. Our market focuses are the Vancouver and Fraser Valley markets; however, I speak with agents all over North America and they are also experiencing a similar white-hot market. The combination of ultra-low inventory or supply of properties, and the record high…

Have you ever held an ice cube in the palm of your hand on a hot summer afternoon? It does not take long before it becomes a small puddle of water, and eventually has no value or purpose for what it was originally intended for. As I write, your hard-earned money in your bank savings…