by Dustan Woodhouse | Aug 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
What If Interest Rates Triple? Rather than make noise about how ‘rates can only go up’ – which is a ridiculous statement. Rates can go any one of 3 ways at any time; up, down, or flat. And when they do move, it is typically in small increments. Although I guarantee...
by Dustan Woodhouse | Jul 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Every year, since always it seems, there are headlines warning us about interest rates. Interest rates about to rise. ‘Prepare For Interest Rate Shock’, being one of my local favourites, as the Bank Of Canada proceed to cut rates 0.25% the very next day. The main...
by Dustan Woodhouse | Jul 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you’re a Realtor, Broker, property buyer or seller this matters. There’s a lot happening these days, good things, bad things, and things that fall under ‘other’. This bit of news falls under the good heading, in that we’re recognizing a tragic piece of our past as...
by Dustan Woodhouse | May 30, 2021 | Be The Better Broker, Volume 2
An excerpt from Chapter 29, Volume 2 of Be the Better Broker. During one of the first business-planning meetings I ever attended at my original brokerage, one of the Brokers stood up and made a comment that has stuck with me to this day. “If you’re just starting out...
by Dustan Woodhouse | May 15, 2021 | Be The Better Broker, Volume 1
I can recall one Mortgage Broker saying to me upon exiting the business after less than four years, “I can only conclude that people do not like me.” This was a person paying not just an economic toll, but clearly an emotional one as well. On paper this Broker had...