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This Xmas I am into handmade Christmas gifts as opposed to store-bought ones. So, here’s a story I wrote and recorded then uploaded to YouTube for my two grandsons. It’s called Sammy Came Back. It’s set in a town called Wretched and it’s about a cat locked out by a forgetful husband in subzero weather […]

Someone obviously thought this was a good idea. These must be rich folks who aren’t concerned about resale value, appraised value, fair market value, long-term value, insurability, investment outcomes or their own lives or their family’s either.

So much fun to watch (and remember): [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvoqsVpZDSw?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=540&h=304] Do you know how to dance without your feet ever touching the floor? You do when you’re 18… https://youtu.be/GvoqsVpZDSw Prof Bruce ps check out the couple from 1:49 to 2:48. Now they can really dance. You’ll find that they’re using very modern choreography with the girl […]

New US ambassador to Canada Ms Kelly Craft wants Canadians to be as successful as Americans. Now that’s a lofty goal. Here is a letter to the editor that kind of sums up how far Canuckleheads have to go to catch up to our Yankee friends to the south: When I read this, it helped […]

I helped one of my five kids (my middle daughter–Mimi) buy a home. She needed $100,000 for her downpayment and some renos. The rest she could finance via a mortgage. Miriam put up $5k and pops put up the rest; during the buying process she asked: “But it’s still 50-50 right, Dad?” That’s kid arithmetic. And, […]

Simple Time Management/Setting Priorities You know when I was a young person, folks used to make fun of people who would put off til tomorrow what they could have done today. They were considered lazy persons. But what if they’re right (the put-off-til-tomorrow people not their critics)? I actually follow this motto now: Never do […]

Here’s what American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau (in his essay, Resistance to Civil Government, first published in 1849) said about civil disobedience: That government is best which governs least… The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes […]

No matter how much analysis you do, every decision taken by humans has at least some element of hope and faith in it. This image I took at a friend’s house yesterday summed it up for me: Humans can’t live without hope. Just look at POW survivors and others imprisoned unjustly. They all say the […]

Hi everyone. I am giving a free webinar on Thursday October 26th from 9 pm til 10:30 pm ET, in cooperation with Paul Blacquiere’s Spirepoint. Most people think that real estate investing only has one path or one model—you know, buy a few residential rentals and hope for the best. What we have been working […]

Want to slow down traffic? Well, you could redesign your streets to woonerf standards or use optical illusions painted onto your streets like this one in Ísafjörður, Iceland: Or this one in Vancouver: at, https://digg.com/2017/iceland-3d-crosswalk. A woonerf road looks more like this: Prof Bruce

Property values in central London are: -doubling every ten years -in the Kensington-Chelsea area, a record price for a home was set in 2014: 8,500 pounds per sq ft, 20 times the national average To put that number ($11,135 USD per sq ft) in perspective, it costs about $220 per sq ft CAD to build […]

Then learn to use another magic little word. Want a better life? Then learn to use one word more often, and that word is, “No.” The two most important dates in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Once you’ve found your why, stick to it and say no to […]