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• Calgarian’s narrowly avoid Home Buyer’s Tax.

  The city of Calgary voted on February 23 rd , 2009 to introduce a Land Transfer Tax that would force potential home buyers to pay 1% of the purchase price of the property being sold. This would cost the average home buyer over $4000. Thankfully, this Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 5:39 PM by Dan Welyk | 0 Comments Filed under: Announcements, Buyer Information, Calgary, Community News, Rants

• Yeah but....by Ozzie Jurock

  December 2008 By: Ozzie J u rock Yogi Berra said: It is deja vu all over again. That is how I feel today. I wrote 10 years ago, in September of 1998, that we were having a case of the Yeah, buts! I think we are there again. Here is what I said then: It Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:26 PM by Dan Welyk | 0 Comments Filed under: Market Conditions, Buyer Information, Seller Information, Community News

• Consumer Confidence All Time Low....huh? Prove them wrong I say...Talk Positive!

  Wow - certainly has been an interesting few weeks in our economy! Interesting to say the least. The media has done a great job in putting the upmost fear into us Canadians with all the economic turmoil stories - this weeks latest catch phrase seems to Read More... Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 3:18 PM by Dan Welyk | 0 Comments Filed under: Community Information, Community News, Rants

• City Tax Hike - my rant...

  Speaking of city taxes again !! Ouch is all I have to say. Posting a couple weeks ago, I wrote about how we in Calgary do have some of the lowest city taxes in metro cities in all of Canada and we don’t really have much to complain about. Well, Read More... Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 2:22 PM by Dan Welyk | 0 Comments Filed under: Community Information, Calgary, Community News

• City of Calgary Service Fee Increases...oh oh...here is my opinion...

  Once again our city is having discussions about fee hikes for services - seems (to me) like a redundant topic. The issue being...fee hikes for services - water, waste removal etc... After reading yesterday’s story on cfcn.ca (unable to find the Read More... Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 9:22 AM by Dan Welyk | 1 Comments Filed under: Environment, Calgary, Recycle, Community News