Monthly Archives: July 2014

The Bicycle Example 1. Your therapist talks to you about your relationship with your bicycle. 2. A consultant you hired reads the manual, gets on your bike and reports back to you about the experience. 3. Your coach puts you on the bike then runs along beside you until you can ride on your own. With thanks to https://desiradda.org/for her […]

A visitable home has three overarching qualities– 1. it has a 0-step entryway (either at the side of the house or front); 2. wider doorways and corridors on the main floor; 3. a main floor bath or powder room and at least one accessible main floor bedroom. Western-based developers have been quick to jump on […]

Ottawa Planners Out of Touch with Rural Affairs I was a supporter of amalgamating 11 Ottawa-area municipalities and townships plus a regional government into one organization back in the day when Ontario decided to forge new mega-municipalities across the province. It made sense many of us thought–get rid of overlapping bureaucracies and take advantage of […]

First of all, don’t buy residential or commercial property in a thin marketplace unless you are doing it for a reason other than economic gain. A thin market is where property is abundant and buyers few. That would include almost all rural Ontario property or small towns, and most sun destinations in the Caribbean, for […]

The Giza Prize Water is an important element in city design. People are calmer around water. People will sit for hours beside water (and campfires); the same people who can’t concentrate on an anything longer than it takes to watch a vine video (6 seconds). Ottawa is fortunate to have three glorious rivers—the Gatineau, the […]

A client of mine, originally from Iran, invests in two things–his own operating business and real estate. He thinks financial services, bank products and insurance are for suckers. When he first came to Canada with his beautiful family, his first visit was to City Hall where he asked, in his then broken English, a local […]

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By Dr Bruce M Firestone, B Eng (Civil), M Eng-Sci, PhD, real estate guru & broker at Century 21 Explorer Realty Inc as well as founder of NHL hockey team the Ottawa Senators and their home arena, Canadian Tire Centre If the best you can do is get 0.99% on your CDs, GICs, RRSPs, TFSAs, […]