Bob Dunn's Abbotsford Real Estate Blog

Writer’s of Canadian History state that Canada became a nation through its participation and the maiming and death of its soldiers during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. This was to be the war to end all wars. Today with the recent death of John Babcock, the last surviving Canadian soldier, the pa...

I hope this is not off topic but assuming that those of us blogging here are interested in our Google ranking. I thought this blog had very good information that could be implemented without technical expertise.The concept of getting your website to the first page of Google seems like an almost i...

Our Finance Minister is to announce new rules for mortgages at 8:00 am Tuesday morning, Ottawa time. Lots of leaks on the internet. One leak indicates limiting amortizations to 35 years a CMHC and the other insurers to a maximum of 95%. Was I asleep at the switch … I thought we adopted these cha...

I mean I really don’t get it.  I live in a valley that houses about 500,000 people adjacent to Canada’s third largest city but'  CBC Radio I don’t get it. Oh. I get a bit of static here and a bit of static there. A few minutes of clarity and its gone in a flash at the next intersection. I think I...

The Canadian women are off to a great start in the Olympics and right now they are the pride of the nation. But one group of Canadian women athletes are missing: ski jumpers.Although women’s ski jumping is alive and well in many parts of the world the IOC has ruled that: "Women's Ski Jumping does...

WHAT MAKES REALTORS SO SPECIAL? There are some things I just can't get my head around about the Competition Bureaus fixture on the real estate industry. Because of my family's participation in the industry since the early 1950's I have seen how hard Realtors in British Columbia have worked toward...

This is a interest article which has some potential to affect Canada. I've know for a while that there was another group of sub-prime mortgage, largely commercial, due this year. I am positive we won't see last years reaction. But .... The news media will have a ball with this news.I recently sha...

I’m not talking about those imaginary lines that run from survey peg to survey peg.I’m talking about the imaginary lines that we draw between ourselves and our prospects and clients. The line that states this is were I am and the line that states where you are. The space between is where we inter...

This morning I’m watching the Olympic Torch being run through downtown Vancouver.Among the runners are Rolly Fox, Terry’s Father, Walter Gretzey and Dal Richards. Walter Gretzey is well known but Dal Richards is a Vancouver legend.A big band leader for seventy years, now aged 93, Dale did run his...

I want this series on my blog where I can refer to it and play it forward."The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." Robert Frost The secret to success in real estate - and in life - is much closer than...