These Questions will help clarify your first steps to investing. What a time to be in real estate! Some areas up, some areas down. What is an investor supposed to do?. Yes I know many agents will say its tough out there but I am a "cup half full kinda guy" and I see nothing but opportunity out there. Here are 5 things you should ask yourself (and your agent) before buying an investment property in this market. •1-      Where are we in the Real Estate Cycle? It is good to talk to an expert to find out what the market is doing. Every local market is in a cycle or trend. Find out where that cycle is and base your investment on that i.e. what the market is doing (upswing, flat or downswing).   •2-      Negotiate, Negotiate!  In any real estate transaction be prepared to negotiate. If your b... 10/23/2008

Dear Friends, I am happy to introduce you to our real estate brokerage, Elite Access Realty Inc. Elite Access Realty Inc.is an independently owned and operated Brokerage that offers Its Real Estate Services in Barrie, Midhurst, Innisfil and surrounding areas of Simcoe County. Our Brokerage is a progressive company that believes in offering the best customer service and the latest technology to its clients. Over 75% of Buyers and Sellers begin their home research on the internet and that is why Elite Access Realty Inc. heavily invests in the best real estate information and tools available. Our web site www.BarrieProperties.com is highly visited through several Search Engines. Our promise is 100% Customer Service satisfaction. Our Real Estate Services: Home Buyer's Real Estate Services H... 10/15/2008

How To Know When you are at the Bottom of a Real Estate Cycle...When to Start to Buy Again!! Whether its stocks or real estate, we all heard that the time to buy is at the bottom of the market.  In real estate that would be the bottom of any current "real estate cycle". And let me say that differing cycles exist in various parts of the country. Each local area is in a different stage in their own cycle.  However the million dollar question for any real estate cycle still is... when is the "bottom" going to occur? How do we know when we are at the bottom so we can begin buying again? As real estate practitioners we are all faced with this question. Especially now where we are all witnessing unprecedented turmoil in the financial markets and we are seeing home values drop rapidly in many ... 10/13/2008

Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Kids Corner HAPPY THANKSGIVING! It’s Turkey Time! • Why do turkeys always go, "gobble, gobble"? Because they never learned good table manners! Thanksgiving Family Project Make a “Turkey” using a pumpkin, sticks, leafs & gourds. Fun project for entire family! You will need: - 1 straight stick - 2 sticks that look like turkey feet (three small branches at one end) - some fluffy, feathery grass - colourful pointy leafs - pumpkin with one flat side (for the body) - a gourd (for the head) -your dad/mom with a drill -your mom/dad with a glue gun Position the pumpkin flat side down, & ask an adult to drill three holes in your pumpkin, the size of the sticks you have: one at the top, for the neck and two at the bottom for the legs. - drill one hole in the... 10/13/2008

Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Current For Sale Listings in Ardagh Bluffs • 7 PENVILL TR. $264,900 • 2 PENVILL TR. $289,900 • 22 BATTEAUX ST. $299,000 • 90 PENVILL TR. $314,900 • 1 McINTYRE DR. $329,900 • 65 McINTYRE DR. $344,900 • 12 BLACK ASH TL.$349,900 • 46 BATTEAUX ST. $379,000 • 66 SILVER TL. $379,000 • 7 BLACK ASH TL. $384,900 • 13 PURBROOK CT. $449,900 Recently SOLD listings in Ardagh Bluffs • 21 SILVER TL. SOLD 07/07/2008 • 48 BATTEAUX ST. SOLD 07/15/2008 • 23 SILVER TL. SOLD 07/25/2008 • 98 PENVILL TL. SOLD 07/28/2008 • 25 SILVER TL. SOLD 07/29/2008 • 6 LAMONT CR. SOLD 07/30/2008 • 29 McINTYRE DR. SOLD 08/26/2008 • 9 SILVER TL. SOLD 09.25/2008 • 36 BLACK ASH TL.SOLD 09/29/2008 There were 8 sales of less than $320K and 1 sale above $320K-$335K bracket. Statistical Data for July-... 10/13/2008

GETTING YOUR HOME READY FOR WINTER Ten Tips to help with Winterizing & Maintenance of Your Home • Caulk around all windows and doors where needed. • Replace any damaged or missing weather stripping on doors, windows, attic hatch, garage doors. • Caulk or use expandable insulation on any areas where wires, cables, vents, plumbing pipes, service entry pipes penetrate the outside walls. • Check landscape and driveway slope to make sure it is sloped away from foundation to prevent water damage. • Check to see if you have the proper location for receptacles for outdoor Christmas lighting & the proper amperage needed to prevent using extension cords, which could cause a line voltage drop. They could also be a trip hazard & could cause fire or shock. • Keep snow clear of Furnace and dryer vent... 10/13/2008

Section 1 CHANGING BARRIE MARKET? Our Barrie Real Estate Market conditions are changing and Sellers are entering a new Reality. If you plan a sale of your home in the near future, you need to be well informed & prepared to take advantage of those rapid changes, and to benefit from them. In the light of those recent market changes I still feel that Barrie has many tremendous benefits due to its location, & the growth rate. We still have Clients moving to Barrie from Brampton, Toronto and from areas North of Barrie. All those people come here in search of work, social services and other reasons. Many of them are drawn to this area because of the number of homes available for sale at exceptional prices. If a Home Sale is something that you are considering, there are great opportunities out... 10/13/2008

  Hello Neighbors, This is the electronic version of the first Issue of our Ardagh Bluffs Newsletter. A place to share news & information about our neighborhood, perhaps to connect with others living here. I will be looking for business owners from our area to toss in their advice on topics related to their professions. I will seek families to announce their garage sale, neighbourhood BBQ’s and other happenings, right here in Ardagh Bluffs Connection. News and announcements from our local school, St. Joan of Arc, as well as from our local Parish, Holy Spirit will be available here too. Since Real Estate is my Profession and more & more it seams like it’s my life too, my goal is to provide you with up-to-date information about current Real Estate Market conditions that affect the value o... 10/13/2008

On the most basic level Home Staging is about marketing a home to appeal to potential buyers. But what it is really about when you dig deeper, is getting the buyer to find one thing about your listing that they absolutely love and cannot live without. They just can't get it down the street or around the corner. As a Professional Home Stager it is your job to find that ONE THING that makes the buyer say this is the house for them. You create an inviting feeling throughout the home, but if your aim is true, you will find the one thing that makes the buyer say ..... this is the house for me. This  property is on 3 acres, out in the country north of Barrie. A little out of the way and the price point is one that is not moving very well in our area. Although the property was stunning, they o... 10/07/2008

"In Tune with Real Estate" Part One - Mana Investments CEO Mark Vosylius discusses real estate investing in Barrie and Orillia. TV show hosted by Rav Toor For more info: (705)-812-1033 Email: mark(at) manainvestments com Mana Investments – www.manainvestments.com – We invest in real estate investing as well as home ownership in the Barrie Orillia, Innisfil, Collingwood, Midland areas. We utilize using RRSP’s as a 2nd mortgage for real estate investing in Ontario Homes by The Owner – www.homesbytheowner.ca Helping Buyers and Sellers in the FSBO real estate market in Simcoe County and surrounding Oro-medonte areas The Six Steps to Success – www.sixstepstosuccess.com – Get to your financial goal quicker…Helping you achieve success in goal planning. 10/05/2008

Newmarket - Orillia and Barrie are two of the best cities for real estate investing in Ontario, according to a prominent local investor speaking on ‘In Tune With Real Estate,' on Rogers television in York Region this week.  "Barrie and Orillia are great cities to buy property for investment purposes," Mark Vosylius a Barrie-area real estate investor told host Rav Toor this week. "Barrie's transportation links, Orillia's planned university and Wal-Mart Super Centre all point to a strong local economy which is important for investors," said Vosylius.  In light of the downturn in the stock market, Vosylius still told host Toor that investing is about  education, not speculation. "You need to educate yourself on the local economy,not what the national headlines say" Mana investments, owned ... 10/04/2008

I've noticed that there are a lot of indecisive buyers out there… It is understandable that with the uncertain economy and turmoil in US, Canadians don’t really know what’s coming… And this huge step of buying a home is after all one of the most important decisions you will make. BUT… I’ve seen buyers crying at an Open House, because they just missed out on the home of their dreams and now have to start the search again. I had requests for showings on townhouses that were available for months and months and when Clients finally decided that YES, they would like to see those… they were gone. I had Clients looking for fixer upper’s in great neighbourhoods, and when time came to snag one that just came on the market on that one street they dreamed about… they over-thought the process, and ... 10/03/2008

The Numbers When it comes to the analysis of numbers many people have gotten rich. And I don't mean from real estate. I mean that spreadsheet programs and number crunching analysis gets too much attention from real estate scam artists. And I am mainly referring to costly real estate programs where complex spreadsheets, bar graphs and pie charts display income, expenses, and loan payments  in a myriad of ways.  There is a great epitaph that works here "Bull** baffles brains". For small multi-family or commercial projects ( under 1 million) the following example will be all that you will need to make a purchase decision. Whether you are buying in Simcoe County ( Barrie, Midland, Innifil or Orillia) this speadsheet appliues to any property. Please keep in mind this is a simplified version ... 10/02/2008

You are invited to our First Annual Breast Cancer Fundraiser on FRIDAY, OCT. 3rd, 2008 12:00pm - 3:00pm at HOMELIFE/KEMPENFELT-KELLY REALTY LTD. INNISFIL OFFICE 1000 Innisfil Beach Road, Innisfil ALL PROCEEDS IN SUPPORT OF BREAST CANCER Come and join us for lunch! BBQ HAMBURGERS ONLY $3.00 each (including drink and dessert) compliments of M&M Meats and Sobeys Wear PINK to our event & receive a Free Pink Carnation, compliments of Bradley's Florist and Lavender Floral Give a payable donation to the Cancer Society and receive a free gift, compliments of Duco&Duco, Gibson&Adams I hope I will see you there! Joanna Gerber Sales RepresentativeHomeLifeKempenfelt-KellyRealty Ltd. Brokerage*284 Dunlop St. W. Barrie, Ontario L4N 1B9 (705)794-6482 O:705-722-8191F:705-725-8232TF: 1-877-722-8191 *In... 10/01/2008

WANTED Barrie or Area Bungalow for Lease Hello again, I hope that someone can help. I'm sure many of you have heard about the pedestrian hit by the transport truck on Hwy 400 two weeks ago. The victim is still in Toronto hospital while her family is frantically looking for a place to live. Place that will accommodate the drastically changed needs of this wife and mother. The husband and son came into my office about a week ago, and since then we have been searching for a bungalow with a finished basement in Barrie or south of Barrie that they could lease for at least a year. Regretfully, there is nothing like that available at this time. We are looking for a one floor living accommodations in a subdivision, or on a farm. They need to move in on November 1st. If you currently have a suit... 09/28/2008

Calling all Ardagh Bluffs Residents! In next couple of weeks you will be receiving the first issue of West Ardagh Newsletter. This will come in the mail and will be addressed to all residents on the following streets: Silver Trail, Penvill, McIntyre, Batteaux, Lamont, Black Ash, Purbrook and portion of Mapleton. There are about 900 homes in our neighbourhood and finally it's time to get connected. This will evolve with time and I hope will become one of the best ways to stay in touch with the neighbours. To start, I plan to have 4 issues a year and if needed I will be changing this to 6 issues each year. Since Real Estate plays a major part in my life, I will also have area statistics, new listings and recently sold data in every issue. Tips and advice, geared to current market conditio... 09/27/2008

If one of your dreams is to own a home... you are in luck today! I'm am looking for first time buyers, renters, those who want to move out of the townhouse and finally move into their own home! There is plenty to choose from in Barrie today with over 1000 active listing! Mortgage Rates are still very agreeable and that dreaded mortgage payment may be less than you expect. But you will never know if you don't ask. If you never thought you could afford your own home, you may be in for a surprise. This is a perfect time to come and take a look. perhaps stop by and talk to our Mortgage Specialist. Give me a call, I will be happy to show you what's available on the market today, guide your through the buying process and get you into that dream home sooner than you think! Lets talk! Joanna Ge... 09/26/2008

I hope you will find time to enjoy those events that BARRIE has to offer. Chappell Farm's Pumpkin Festival & Haunted Adventure Sep-27-08 - Oct-31-08 Chappell Farms, 617 Penetanguishene Road, Barrie Farmyard Friends (animals) Hay Maze Corn Maze The Boo Barn Trike Track Sand Diggers Nanny Goat Mountain Play Area Pick your own perfect pumpkin For more information visit Chappellfarms.ca Pumpkin Mania 2008 Rounds Ranch Farm Adventures, 2457 County Rd. 92, Elmvale Pumpkin bowling, pie eating, pumpkin hunts, pick-a-pumpkin, A-maize-ing Adventure Cornfield Maze and more! Open Saturdays and Sunday. For more information visit Roundsranch.com or call 705-322-6293. Barrie Colours of Music Sep-26-08 - Oct-05-08 The sixth Colours of Music Festival will present Wonderful Music, Wonderfully Performed. ... 09/26/2008

  I will be hosting an Open House at 20 Stuart Avenue on Sunday, September 28 between 1:00 and 3:00PM THIS HOME IS OFFERED AT THOUSANDS BELOW THE BUILDERS PRICE!  $279,900.00 and is backing onto trees.  It offers, 4 bedrooms and 3 baths with 2034sq.ft. of space! 2 years old, ceramics, gas fireplace pot lights and more! Come and take a look; bring your checkbook! To view this week's (September 27-28th) Open House listings for Barrie, please visit www.Selling-Barrie-Homes.com/open-house.html Please note: Properties on this Open House page are listed by other Realtors. Link will take you to the MLS website, and you will be able to view the listings. This information is provided for your convenience. www.Selling-Barrie-Homes.com, it's publisher and owner do not take any responsibility for m... 09/25/2008

To wiew this week's (September 20-21st) Open House listings for Barrie, please visit www.Selling-Barrie-Homes.com.Please note: Properties on this Open House page are listed by other Realtors. Link will take you to the MLS website, and you will be able to view the listings. This information is provided for your convenience. www.Selling-Barrie-Homes.com, it's publisher and owner do not take any responsibility for mistakes and omissions in the property information featured in the listings of other Sales Representatives.*If you are considering a sale of your home, or looking to purchase one and would like some advice on how to proceed, please give me a call. I will be happy to provide you with a Free Market Analysis, and will be able to advise you on current Market conditions. Joanna Gerber... 09/17/2008