Bob's Blog

Today was the day to plant the Sweet Pea flower seeds I had purchased. They had soaked in water for 24 hours, and the earth was dug, rish and fertile, with lots of peat moss to aid with water retention through the summer. As I planted them, my mind flashed back more than 50 years to a time I shar...

I enjoy both humor and a good story, so I spend some time each week checking out real estate references on the Internet. I can't vouch for the validity of this story, but it's purported to be a true exchange between the FHA and a lawyer. *** A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. H...

One of the featured articles today is by Stewart Penn and it is titled "Higher Taxes make for the Happiest People on Earth". In it he points out that citizens in the Scandinavian countries are among the happiest in the world, but they are also the most heavily taxed, and he speculates on whether ...

A broker was dismayed when a brand new real estate office much like his own opened up next door and erected a huge sign which read 'BEST AGENTS.' He was horrified when another competitor opened up on his right, and announced its arrival with an even larger sign, reading 'LOWEST COMMISSIONS.' The ...

I need to put something on here for Mothers' Day. Don't get me wrong, I had a great day visiting with my own Mom and spending time with my beautiful wife who is Mom to our four kids, but I still enjoy the bit of twisted humour in this story.A small boy is sent to bed by his mother... [Five minute...

Through email correspondence I have been getting to know Pam, a teacher in Alberta who is interested in buying some investment property back here in Belleville, Ontario, where she was raised. I mentioned that I was a teacher as well - for 38 years - and today she asked, "So do you miss the teachi...

Sorry, but I can't resist posting these real estate jokes that I find on the Internet. If you have others, please send then along because I am also building a page for them on my website. Here's today's story -Some men in a pickup truck drove to a lumber yard. One of the men walked into the offic...

When I moved from the sity to the country back in 1976, I settled near a small village in rural Ontario named Stirling. There were a few obvious differences. One was that, when we went to close on the farm I had purchased, the lawyer was not able to give me the keys for the farm house. It was bui...

Several years ago, before I decided to become a realtor, I looked back on my experience of arriving in rural Ontario in 1976 knowing very little about country life. I decided to start a little website for people interested in making the transition from an urban to a rural area with information ab...

One of my clients is anticipating a move from Manitoba to our part of rural Ontario, and he came up with this bit of country humour while he was doing research online. I haven't seen it before, and I don't know the source, but it looks like one of those things that could be easily adapted to many...