Warren Mascarenhas is the director and co-founder of feeDuck, a website that helps home buyers and sellers easily find qualified real estate agents and save big bucks. The idea for feeDuck came about when Warren and his three neighbours who had recently moved into the area were having beers in the backyard and brainstormed a […]

Canada’s banking regulator OSFI (short for Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions) has become quite the water cooler conversation topic these days. “How ‘bout them Blue Jays?” has been replaced with “did you hear about the latest mortgage rule changes?” Although these were perhaps the most anticipated mortgage rule changes in history, there’s still […]

You may have heard of the saying, “hard work pays off.” Growing up our parents teach us that if we work hard early on, we’ll be rewarded later in life. We study hard in school in hopes of one day landing an entry-level position and working our way up the corporate ladder. Despite advancements in […]

A personal finance book written by an insolvency trustee can’t be interesting, right? Wrong. Straight Talk On Your Money by Doug Hoyes promises to cut through the biggest myths and mistakes about money and, boy, does it deliver! Full disclosure: I’ve known Doug for a while. I was a guest on his podcast when I […]

For most of us, buying and selling a house is likely the single largest financial transaction of our lifetime. Having what I like to call a “rock-star” real estate agent can mean all the difference between a smooth, stress-free experience and a nightmarish one. With over 40,000 real estate agents in Toronto, choosing an agent […]

Last week CBC Marketplace aired an eye-opening episode on the wild, world of Toronto real estate. In the episode entitled, “Real estate: How some agents break the rules,” the show’s journalists went undercover with hidden cameras to investigate real estate agents for wrongdoing. And what they found was downright shocking. Is the Deck Stacked Against […]