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Saskatoon city council extends River Landing deadline for the last time

August 19, 2009

Saskatoon city council, in a special emergency meeting today, granted a final extension to Lake Placid Developments to cough up the $4.55 million for land the developer purchased at River Landing by October 30 2009. The extension is conditional upon the developer paying interest to the City of Saskatoon in the amount of $214,197 by [...]

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River Landing Village delayed again: Star Phoenix

June 20, 2009

According to a story in today’s Star Phoenix, Lake Placid Developments is seeking a one-year extension on the current deadline to complete the excavation of the building site for its proposed $200 million River Landing development.
In a letter to the city, the developer requested an extension to June 30, 2010. City manager, Murray Totland will [...]

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Canadians bullish on Phoenix real estate

June 29, 2008

Jason Warick wrote a story in the June 26 edition of the Saskatoon Star Phoenix titled, ”Sask. residents find Arizona opportunity.”

“The strong Canadian dollar, combined with rock-bottom prices for real estate in many cities such as Phoenix, means Canadians can snap up vacation homes or investment properties for less than half of the price [...]

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Buying real estate in Phoenix, Arizona – From the beagle’s mouth

January 17, 2008

Over the past several months a number of my past clients have asked me about real estate opportunities in the U.S. The rising dollar, combined with reduced prices in some beautiful U.S. cities has many Canadians considering a purchase in their favorite vacation spot. A friend of mine from Phoenix recently asked if he could [...]

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Flip This House exposed: The “unreal” side of reality TV

May 16, 2007

This is not exactly important real estate news but I couldn’t resist writing a small snip about this story.

It seems that the popular A&E reality program, “Flip This House” has run a number of episodes which amount to nothing more than a sham. Featuring self proclaimed “real estate developer” Sam Leccima, the episodes represent [...]

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Who actually pays the commission on a Saskatoon real estate sale?

January 20, 2007

This topic has come to mind a number of times over the last couple of weeks, first through Ardell’s post titled, “Transparency – The Buyer Agent Fee (No longer available).” I thought it was time that I touched on the topic.

I was speaking with a mortgage person yesterday. He was recounting a conversation [...]

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So you want to invest in Saskatoon real estate

January 1, 2007

Saskatoon is obviously gaining a national reputation as a hot spot. There is little doubt that our city is doing well and the Saskatoon real estate market is healthy and strong showing several years of decent appreciation. At the same time, many of Canada’s major markets have been showing signs of cooling off, so [...]

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Jack Grover released from prison

December 16, 2006

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, Friday, acquitted Saskatoon landlord Jack Grover of obstruction of justice and ordered his immediate release from prison. Grover was convicted of obstruction earlier this year and had served three months of the one year sentence imposed on him in September.

The charge resulted from actions Grover allegedly took “to falsify” [...]

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Millionaire Real Estate Moguls 2, The Blame Game

December 7, 2006

Richie Tatum and David Kimball, my favorite flippers are back with Episode 2, “The Blame Game.” They’re eager to get answers to the question of why they grossed only $75.00 on “The First Flip.”

Will the guys ever reach their goal of becoming “co-millionaires?”
Does “Bermuda Bluegrass” actually double your property value?
Does it really matter what [...]

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Millionaire real estate mogul wannabe?

December 3, 2006

It seems that everywhere you turn, someone or something is encouraging us to “buy, fix and flip” real estate as a sure fire way to financial freedom. There’s no end to the how to books, get rich seminars. Even the television is flooded with popular shows like “Flip This House.”

Flipper Nation [...]

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