Recent Blog Posts by Paulette Upshall

Century 21 Team One Realty GRAND OPENING

Century 21 Team One Realty and Atlantic Living Property Management will celebrate its grand opening May 2, 2012 with a community style affair hosted by Patrick Johnston, CEO. Johnston, who owns and operates Century 21 Team One Realty and Atlantic Living Property Management, also owns Centum Mortgage Team Inc., and the Live By Leverage Network. He says "bringing my group of companies under one roof ...

Kitchen Style Opinions for 2011

I opened my Facebook this morning and read about one website's opinion on what 2011 Kitchens will resemble. Style at Home states, "The kitchen is the heart of the home. Indeed, no matter how lovely the living room, how comfortable the dining room chairs, you're sure to find a coterie of friends and family hovering around the kitchen whenever they're over. And no one can argue that having an up-to-date ...

Juggling Life - My First 5 Years in Real Estate

I am now 5 years into my career as a real estate agent and I'm still loving my job! As I grew up in Pasadena, Nfld in the 70s to 90s, I always appreciated the time my mother had for me and my other 3 siblings. She was a stay-at-home mom that was there for s all the time with love, support, food, and activities to fill our days. I always wanted the same for my children when I grew up! I ...

RCMP vs HRM City Police

Why mess with a good thing right? I received this email from two of my colleagues/friends on Friday, February 26, 2010..... "I am sending this as a rally cry to SAVE OUR RCMP in TANTALLON, SACKVILLE and COLE HARBOUR!!!! Good afternoon- Please take a moment to read and if you feel this is something you feel strongly about- like me, voice your concern. In addition to you- I have copied my local councillor ...

Testimonial

Our experience Selling the House with Paulette Upshall and Century 21... Paulette was our realtor for both purchasing the house in Aug 08 and selling it in Jan 10. She was upfront, unrelenting and very professional. Because realtors assist people in life altering decisions as they are involved with buying and selling probably the biggest and most important purchase of our lives, they should hold ...

Constant Contact with Clients & Customers

Over my almost 5 years in real estate, I've been a firm believers in keeping in "constant contact" with my clients, friends, colleagues, business associates, and family. One never knows when or where the next referral will come from. Besides that, it's important to develop a relationship with each and every contact you make. Todays internet really makes this easy for us...we have Twitter, LinkedIn, ...

SPRING MARKET - DON'T MISS THE BOAT!!

Believe it or not, the SPRING MARKET has already started to grow. Many real estate agents are commenting about a rise in the number of homes on the market and the larger number of buyers than last year this time. It is anticipated that 2010 will be a better real estate year. Are you ready? Seller - you need to start planning now. Interview for a REALTOR (R), clean the home and declutter, stage ...

Hot month of December 2009

Typically in December, I'm in quiet prepare for Christmas mode. Not this past December! Besides taking the Broker's course and passing (yippee), I was down with a major case of the flu...it would've been nice to have down time. But that wasn't in the cards ... Instead I listed a home in Halifax for $349,900 (6410 Chebucto Road), got an offer at the 4th viewing, we offered on another home on ...

Century 21 Posts New PR Program for Brokers/Owners - Another Value-Added Service

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  Paulette Upshall CENTURY 21 Admiral Cove Realty 902-835-HOME (4663) margo.whitman@century21.ca www.century21.ca/margo.whitman www.C21AdmiralCove.ca CENTURY 21 Admiral Cove Realty Sales Representative, Margo Whitman, Earns Broker of Record Bedford, Nova Scotia (Grassroots Newswire) June 2009 -- CENTURY 21 Admiral Cove Realty, is proud to announce that Margo ...

HRM 2009 Fall Market

  October 2009 - the kiddies are back in school, extra-curricular activities have started up, and Thanksgiving, Halloween and Christmas are just around the corner.  I know that in my own household, things have started to tick at a normal speed with Taekwon-Do 3x/week, swimming 1x/week, regular homework coming in from HPCS. Believe it or not, the real estate FALL market is also in ...

FINTRAC Audits Could Mean Serious Penalties for Brokers

FINTRAC has begun to levy Administrative Monetary Penalties (AMPs) against businesses and individuals for non-compliance. Click here for an explanation of AMPs. As brokers, if you do not have a complete FINTRAC compliance regime in place and a risk assessment tool, you may be fined under the AMP process. FINTRAC has recently completed a number of audits of brokerages across the country to gauge ...