Back in the 1970s, when I still left a work at the Mississauga Occasions to do the job for the Toronto Serious Estate Board, I was tasked with creating a farewell column to visitors. A veteran reporter at our levels of competition experienced just published a comparable column, in which he thanked dozens of well known neighborhood and nationwide politicians and superstars. But I had only been doing work at the Times for four months and did not have an extraordinary listing of contacts to thank.
So I wrote that I couldn’t thank everyone I labored with at the Times, not because I did not have the place but simply because I hadn’t however uncovered all their names. To make enjoyment of the other columnist’s identify-dropping, I thanked Mick Jagger and Margaret Trudeau, simply because “as significantly as I know, they have by no means explained a bad issue about me.”
Nicely, now it is time to say goodbye to REM’s readers and the shoe is on the other foot. The list of men and women I’d like to thank is too extended to involve all people who assisted me condition the editorial written content of REM for the previous 33 a long time. But below are some who manufactured a significant affect.
It starts off with the dozens of freelance journalists REM employed about the many years. Susan Doran experienced a tale in the very to start with problem of REM and has published hundreds of articles for us due to the fact then, seldom lacking a month. Kathy Bevan was REM’s ace reporter for various yrs, chasing down stories even when the topics did not want to be interviewed. Just one year for the duration of the Western Relationship convention, she cornered a serious estate board EO in an elevator when he tried out to escape her queries.
Many many thanks also to Toby Welch, creator of much more than 100 REM attributes, and other long-time freelancers Diane Slawych, Mario Toneguzzi, Danny Kucharsky, Yvonne Dick, Don Procter, Sohini Bhattacharya, Dennis McCloskey, Connie Adair, Steve Maxwell, Myles Shane, Tony Palermo and the late Lloyd Manning.
REM wouldn’t have attained the believability it has in the serious estate marketplace with no the contributions of lots of recent and former Realtors, who crammed our internet pages with advice and observations, and did not shy absent from controversy.
Marty Douglas wrote more than 250 columns, originally known as Western Perspectives and then Metes & Bounds.
Barry Lebow, who aided REM score a deal to produce a journal for a home finance loan broker’s association, wrote dozens of columns and far more recently began manufacturing videos that he shared with REM audience.
Dan St. Yves, a previous serious estate agent in Kelowna, has been writing a month-to-month humour column for REM given that 2000, never ever missing a thirty day period.
Carolyne has presented as several Recipes for Realtors columns as we could use. She is also the most prolific commenter on all REM stories, featuring her acquire on the industry’s latest information. (And thanks also to our other most recurrent commenters, Brian Martindale and PED.)
I also owe a credit card debt of gratitude to Ross Wilson, Debbie Hanlon, Stan Albert, Ted Greenhough, Mark Brodsky, Chris Seepe, Aiman Attar, Peggy Blair, Aaron at TRES Labs and the late Albert Teichner. They all delivered a wealth of information and facts for Realtors – click on the Columnists and Tips for Agents tabs on this internet site and verify out their stories, and people of quite a few other guest columnists.
The most-study stories on REM ended up continuously individuals dealing with legal problems, and we were blessed with quite a few exceptional legal writers. They incorporate Natalka Falcomer, Don Lapowich, Mark Weisleder, Martin Rumack, Bob Aaron, Shaneka Shaw Taylor, James Prepare dinner and one particular of REM’s greatest supporters, Avi Rosen. A lot of thanks to you all.
Our print journal experienced a resident photographer – Marko Shark, who then turned the task above to his son Elijah. Many thanks for all the excellent photos guys. And thanks to Craig Hodge and Darla Furlani, who furnished REM address shots from the West Coast.
Thanks to people who offered REM with their video material: David Greenspan, Richard Robbins, Toni Sing and Jenny Wun, Shawn Bell, Nicole Attias and lots of other folks.
To absolutely everyone who despatched me a story about a new office environment hire or charitable endeavour in their community, thank you. Thanks to all the boards and associations who sent us editorial contributions and distributed the print edition of REM to their members. Many thanks to the personnel at CREA, who supported us during the several years, even though they generally did not treatment for what we wrote and have been annoyed that we refused to put Real estate agent in capital letters.
And at last (sure, I know the songs is actively playing and they want me to wind this up), a term about the persons at REM. Artwork director Liz Mackin experienced good tolerance in placing alongside one another most of the print difficulties over the many years. Many thanks also to graphic designers Shawn Kelly, Yee Truong and Eilidh Harding.
It was great performing with “Uncle Barry” Holmes, and afterwards income director Dennis Rock. When Dennis retired, his daughter Amanda came on board and quickly became the most common REM staffer at trade demonstrates.
Thanks also to hard-functioning creation and distribution manager Mila Purcell (who got me hooked on Brother Jack McDuff) and creation co-ordinator Judy Cupsky.
I wrote about Heino Molls and the start of REM when he retired. We lost Heino in 2019 and I’ve thought about him every single working day because.
William Molls took over as REM’s publisher and CEO and has produced a valiant hard work to continue to keep it going throughout the pandemic, under no circumstances straying from our philosophy of giving good quality editorial written content and not selling out, when it would have been uncomplicated to do so. Many thanks for all your guidance, Will. Your father would be happy.
Okay, that’s plenty of, except for a particular plug: even though I will be “mostly retired”, I’ll keep on crafting about Canadian real estate in my column at Realty Periods. And I appear ahead to viewing what a new staff will do with REM.
