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I spent a couple days at REMAX KICKSTART event at The Convention Centre downtown with thousands of REMAX salespeople and brokers.  The event’s purpose is to provide REMAX agents with market facts, educational courses and motivation to start the year on a high note!  After all, being a REAL ESTATE Salesperson is rated Top 10 most stressful “careers!”  

From me, you know, you always get the TRUTH!  

Day 1: Monday was a bomb!  Giant waste of time.  ”La Grande” disappointment!  Monday were the educational courses.  

Social Media, I took was a bust and so was the Mortgage Course having talked to agents during lunch.  There should have been a qualifier for these courses that they are for absolute beginners, new agents not for the 90% who aren’t.  

I think REMAX failed to understand Realtors needs.  i.e. concrete steps to help them “market and grow” their business.  If there were even 5 action steps I could have taken from the Social Media course it would have been worth 2.5 hours of torture.  Thankfully he cut it short 30 minutes.

DAY 2 – Well this is where the EVENT SHINED!  Excellent speakers starting with 10 year old child prodigy Ethan Bortnick! Inspirational and talented!

-  I had to leave for a deal in the middle of the TD “President-Dude’s” excellent market update and came back in the afternoon for the Dr Hank Weisinger who did a fantastic job in helping us understand “emotions” setting up the crazy, lunatic, fired-up,(all in a loving way)  Gary Vaynerchuk who hit a smashing line drive, dead centre, home run!

Gary’s message?

You gotta be REAL.  Be Transparent.  Provide Personal Service.  Connect in a conversation on Facebook & Twitter and other Social Media and don’t hold back to show the “Authentic Self”!

After all, “giving starts the receiving process”.  I love this:  If you are real.. speak the truth… you never have to REMEMBER ANYTHING!

HOW CAN REMAX IMPROVE THIS YEARLY EVENT?

Now I’m going to be REAL and I’m sure some people won’t like it.

1.  Credit courses should focus on Marketing.  After all we are in the business of “marketing” people’s homes even though we are called “salesperson”.

2.  Vet the course material before it is delivered.  I’m sure another 20 or so brokers/ salespeople would more than gladly sit in a class to hear the pre-presentation!  I volunteer!

3.  NO MORE BOXED LUNCHES!   I’m sure it is not just an INDIAN THING!  But Food is Planned before the party!  Because it doesn’t matter how great the “party is”… it is remembered by how great the food was!   

You know I heard our president, espouse REMAX’s brand “QUALITY” and I agree.  Highlighting Agent Quality, Training Quality, and not least the Quality of the Venue.  Yes the VIPs of real estate.

Well if we are VIP agents, then we should be treated with VIP service.  Box lunches, that tastes worse than airplane food, is not food for VIP guests.  

I watched about hundred agents from over a thousand sit in the cafeteria eating and there faces said it all.  We’re eating because we’re hungry.  I didn’t see a smile of: “Thank you REMAX for a fantastic lunch”!

I hope Remax will spare $10 to provide a warm meal or make it non-lunch event.  Give us an hour and a half so we can stimulate the local economy besides the parking garage.

I never like ending on a negative note and REMAX didn’t disappoint on Day 2.  I love to learn that is why I was there and thank god Gary hit a home run otherwise I’d felt as if I was REMAX KICKED!

My Vote is in:

Day 1:  Remax 1 of 10 – wasted money, time and energy!
Day 2:  REMAX: 7 of 10 would have been 9 if Food was good! 

What did you think??????

To everyone’s success in 2012.

“our thoughts without concrete actions are dreams unfulfilled- jas jagpal”

Jas Jagpal, Broker

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Toronto Real Estate Weekly Market Update

Jan 22, 2012

In this video Jas Jagpal discusses.

1.  The booming Toronto Real Estate Market.  Jas looks at the average price, new sales and listings in the Toronto Real Estate Market from Jan 1st to Jan 14th.

2. The Mortgage Update.

3.  New listing at the CENTRO Condo at 190 Borough Drive, Scarborough with pictures

4.  The Move:  “The Secret – Law of Attraction”.  See previous video on my Youtube.com/JasJagpal channel or on this blog for my take on “The Secret”.  I was surprised to see that most people I’ve talked to haven’t heard about it or watched it.  ”Knowledge is King.  To Change your life, you must change your thoughts”  To you success!

I know this is a Real Estate Blog but I needed to share this with my readers.  After all life is bigger than real estate.  We all need to be able to enjoy a better life.  Hopefully this will help someone out there.

I’m curious, have your heard of THE SECRET? 

I was surprised that my client and the two receptionists I asked at the office hadn’t heard about “The SECRET”. 

I had assumed that most people knew after all it was on Oprah, the major networks a few years back.

That got me thinking probably many more haven’t heard of it either, even though I was assuming most knew. 

Well if you haven’t… you ought to watch it.  HERE is MY INTERPRETATION of MY SECRET!

Let me know what you think.  Peace.  Jas Jagpal

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Toronto Real Estate Market Update: Jan, 18, 2012

Jas Jagpal discusses the latest real estate market news

-  Jan 1-14, 2012  Sales Numbers compared to 2011

-  Average price

-  New listings

-  BMO 5 year, 2.99% or TD 4 year, 2.99%  Mortgage which is better?

-  How does the amortization period affect your mortgage?

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2012 – Jas Jagpal Toronto Real Estate Weekly Update. This update will feature GTA trends and statistics, news of the day, condo & mortgage updates and will answer any questions buyers and sellers e-mail to me.  Below is a text-summary of the video.

This is wonderful to see.  I can look back at this chart and see what the average price was when we first came to Canada back in 1974.  The average home price was $52K.   My Dad came in 1972 an it was $32K.  Wow, almost doubled in 2 years. 

Today an average car costs $32K and a very nice one at $52K.

The chart also shows the “Recession” years and “high interest rate times of 1989 to 1993 when prices fell and people defaulted because they couldn’t make payments.  Imagine paying 18% interest?  We have it so good at 3%!

Finally the scare in 2007-2009 which didn’t materialize in a drop in average price but flat-lined the growth in average price.  But if you were to extrapolate the chart from 2007 up… you will notice that we’ve caught up in average price in 2010 and definitely have exeeded it in 2011.

I think this is a nice chart that The Toronto Real Estate Board has compiled and is attached below for your preview.

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