Yearly Archives: 2009

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! | RED DEER REAL ESTATE

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Just a quick little post as the Holiday Season is now upon us, to wish you all a very safe and happy holiday season. I have a pretty exciting next couple of weeks lined up, and I hope you all do as well. Enjoy the time with the family in the next week or so,...

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ONE YEAR AND GOING STRONG! | RED DEER REAL ESTATE

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As the end of 2009 approaches, I will be celebrating my first full year in the real estate business in Central Alberta. With all of the talk of economic turmoil as the end of 2008 approached, to say that I was a little tentative and nervous about starting up my career at this point in...

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Michelle Rauckman - December 21, 2009 - 10:38 am

Mike, you are such a great guy, its no wonder at all why you are sucessful. I love the blog, I read and anxiously await each post. Its fresh and certainly insiteful. Please keep up your enthusiasm for your work, its refeshing. I love the pictures and of course we can thank your amazing wife for those. You both are talents that Red Deer needs and together are a force to be reckoned with. Here’s to a very sucessful next year pal!

MW - December 19, 2009 - 4:21 pm

Thanks girls! Your career is what you make of it, if you are going to do it for a while you might as well do something you enjoy and do it a way that is enjoyable to you! Nice work on the Babycakes website by the way!

Louise - December 19, 2009 - 3:34 pm

Your marketing of ‘just being yourself’ is brilliant and stands apart from any other realtor I have known. We often brag about how fantastic you are in this industry. Keep doing what you are doing Mike, congrats.

HOME RENOVATION TAX CREDIT | RED DEER REAL ESTATE

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Unlike the First-Time Home Buyers Tax Credit (HBTC) and the Home Buyer’s Plan (HBP), the Home Renovation Tax Credit (HRTC) is open to all homeowners, who would like to complete some improvements to their home, condo, or cabin. The HRTC applies to work performed or goods acquired after January 27, 2009, and before February 1, 2010 under...

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MW - December 16, 2009 - 4:49 pm

That picture is sheer beauty! Riddle me this: How much galvanized pipe is in our house now?!

Troy Murray (of Cornell Industries), you are the best plumber in the biz!

Andrea Wiseman - December 16, 2009 - 8:47 am

Oh great! Now I can see this renovation hell times two! On your blog and in my basement… thanks handsome!

HOME BUYER’S PLAN | RED DEER REAL ESTATE

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I am sure many of you have heard of this program, which the government has been running for quite some time now, but there have also been some recent revisions to the original program that you may be interested to know of. The Home Buyer’s Plan (HBP) was a program set up so that individuals...

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Marlene Anning - December 12, 2009 - 10:05 am

Nice work Mike!!

FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYERS TAX CREDIT | RED DEER REAL ESTATE

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For those of you who have just recently purchased your first home, or if you are currently thinking of purchasing your first home, I thought that this information might be of some benefit to you specifically. In case you are not yet aware, the Government of Canada is offering a few incentives to its residents...

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