by Julie Broad
Better late than never, right??!! Here’s our Top 10 Blog Posts in 2010 as voted by your clicks on Life as Real Estate Investors:
Hands down this was the most viewed post in 2010 on our blog. Later in the year I also did a little review of a book by the same author, Philip McKernan, discussed in this post. That post is all about buying US foreclosures as a Canadian.
by Julie Broad
Howdy folks!! Thought I would just give you a couple of quick pictures from our little road trip adventure so far and share a video we shot in the Badlands around Drumheller, AB today after learning that the Bank of Canada had decided to raise rates. The rate increase was a bit unexpected given the latest housing market headlines we’ve heard, but as I wrote about in BiggerPockets recently in the Coming Crash in the Canadian Housing Market, you have to dig deeper into any headline. In this video I basically reiterate that point and give you a little look around from Orkney Viewpoint just outside of Drumheller. Enjoy!!
Read more on The Badlands, Big Dinosaurs and Bank of Canada…
by Julie Broad
Real estate blogging isn’t really like movie making or the music industry where there is a big gala event every year where all the bloggers get together to celebrate and award giant glass trophies to recognize the best bloggers, the best commentors, the best people behind the scenes of the blogs and so on.
by Julie Broad
My legs were burning and heavy with exhaustion. My lungs were tight. I was heaving like an asthmatic as I pumped my arms. Every inch forward was a struggle but after a minute or so of pushing myself forward I was almost at the top of the sixth hill of my training run. And pretty much as soon as it started to level out I started to think about all the reasons why I didn’t have to do the seventh hill.
In some ways I fear this could be a farewell message …
For nearly two years I have been lazy and scared … I first set my blog up on wordpress not knowing anything about blogs and ever since then I have allowed wordpress to host this blog. But, I am missing out on so many things like a simple blogroll or even statistics about the clicks and visitors to my blog by not hosting the blog with my own host. And so many readers have requested a Retweet button for Twitter or other easy ways to share their favourite posts with others and I can’t do that with the program the way it is today. So on this 4 Year Anniversary of our Rev N You Newsletter I decided it’s time we finally got brave and made the move … but I still worry that it will all be gone after I push the button …
