The Day and life of a Peterborough Realtor and Selwyn family man. Journal 1

It was kickstart morning for Royal Lepage Frank in Peterborough. Breakfast started at 8:15am. Meeting was at 9:00am with three speakers.  I decided that I would still get up at my regular time of 6am but I would bounce out of bed at that time not lay there in denial for 20 mins like I usually do. Susan got out of bed at 6:45am and woke me up. I did not set the fricken alarm right the night before. Shit. I started my day late.

I did get my daily Walk and Talk out for the morning. Here is the chat!

I have my set of rituals I do every single morning. I rushed my tasks and was in the shower by 7:45am. I asked the kids to get their butts in gear as Susan wanted to come to the meeting as well. That was a mistake. Immediately my oldest went into slow motion mode. I left the house at 8:15am and arrived at Peterborough Golf and Country Club about 20 mins later. Susan, after dealing with the kids did not arrive until shortly after 9am. Keith had us all beat and was at the meeting upon my arrival.

Our Kickstart meeting had three speakers and the one I wanted to hear the most from is a Lawyer named Mark Weisleder. Mark was presenting for an hour about the Cannabis ACT how it affects sales and leases. We also heard from TD’s Albert Breckenridge on market conditions. I find that topic dry but it is useful information. Our last speaker was Phil Hollander from Morris Real Estate Marketing. He spoke about, you guessed it, Real Estate Marketing.

From this meeting I went to the Northcrest to tape tomorrows Walk and Talk. It will be a hot topic that is for sure. I took a look at the outside of the arena. I know what it looks like in the inside but I never paid much attention to the outside. It just looks neglected right from the sign on.

Take a look at this crack on the side of the building. They tried to patch it but the whole wall is pulling apart.

Late the prior night we worked on putting together a deal on my lot that I had listed on Surgarbush Cres. We where able to satisfy both the buyer and seller. I drove out to Lakehurst and flipped my first signs to SOLD for 2019. Nice to get that done. 

After our kick start meeting Susan went back to the office for some more training offered by the Brokerage and to button up paperwork. I came home to work at the home office and wait to get the kids off the bus. I know why I love my office in Peterborough so much, it is hard to get on a roll of anything as the kids ask hundreds of questions every few minutes.

I then made dinner. lol Susan picked up the dinner and we quickly ate. We needed to be out of the house by 5:30pm to do a pickup and play a hockey game.

I got a few shirts made with the Royal Lepage logo. I purchased this in Lindsay at Kawartha Custom Vinyl. I had a RLP pin that I really liked but I lost the darn thing in the washing machine. My hope is to identify my profession when I am out and about.

My daughter played in the Ops arena in City of Kawartha Lakes for a night game. It is an old barn and the ice is awful. The puck literally does not slide on the ice. It sticks like carpet. The Ennismore Eagles and the Lindsay Linx played through the difficulty of the ice to have a wonderful game. Ennismore came out on top 3-2.

Written for you by:

Your local Realtor®

If you are looking to either Buy or Sell in Selwyn or Peterborough contact me immediately at 705-927-6236

Brad Sinclair, Sales Representative

Royal LePage Frank Real Estate Brokerage

Solving Problems and Making Things Happen in Real Estate since 2007

www.bradsinclair.ca

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Final thoughts on the Council Self Pay Raise January 2/2019 Walk and Talk from Your Local Realtor Brad Sinclair

Who gets a 79% raise in pay? The only people in this world that would get a 79% pay raise is someone who would give themselves that raise. Is this not just wrong?

 Peterborough County Council has decided they are worthy of much much more pay. Were these councilors not ok with the current pay when they ran for office? Peterborough County Council has decided we need to pay them more. Not one councilor said hey, this is wrong or maybe we should discuss this. Their raise was given without discussion. What would have happen if a 79% raise for County staff came to vote. Would they vote yes on this motion? Of course not. Does Council value their services more then the hard working staff at the county. Looks like it. This raise is said it is about attraction and retention. Really? I had no idea Peterborough Counties Mayors and Deputy Mayors are hard to retain.  

I read a letter to the Peterborough Examiner’s Editor last night by Ron Black. His letter brought even a few more points what made the 79% raise in pay for Peterborough County Council so wrong. Before I get to Ron’s points I want to make one thing clear that seems to be a little misunderstood. The position of Peterborough County Councillor is a part time position working for the County. Two meetings per month and preparation time. This has nothing to do with their pay as Mayors or Deputy Mayors in their own individual townships. One of Ron’s points are these Councillors all ran for their positions for Mayor and Deputy Mayor knowing they will automatically be on Peterborough County Council and the pay for the position. Can anyone remember them running a platform to raise their pay for Ptbo county council? Of coarse not, but this has been one of the very first things they did. Another point that made their rational flawed was they used other municipalities for comparables. None of these municipalities had a deputy mayor but council decided to keep theirs. There was no comparable so they throw him a 37% raise. It was also discussed the Warden was pay was higher then most but since their was a loss in tax relief they were not going to adjust that pay down. So in other words they cherry picked the data and rational of the findings in the research of pay scale.

After writing this show I asked myself, What do I want from this situation? What I want is someone from the council to just speak to us about this situation open and honestly.  If they would just communicate with us, maybe this situation could be healed quickly.

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That is all I have for you today.  

When you are in a need for a Realtor Check me online at www.bradsinclair.ca I would like to have you business.

Written for you by:

Your local Realtor®

If you are looking to either Buy or Sell in Selwyn or Peterborough contact me immediately at 705-927-6236

Brad Sinclair, Sales Representative

Royal LePage Frank Real Estate Brokerage

Solving Problems and Making Things Happen in Real Estate since 2007

www.bradsinclair.ca

www.royallepagerealestate.com

www.gowaterfront.ca

Selwyn Council 4 Year vision, I would like to see more. January 2/2019 Walk and Talk from Your Local Realtor Brad Sinclair

Hey everybody , Brad Sinclair here, your local Realtor, Looking to earn your real estate business since 2007 and Welcome to today’s walk and talk.

Selwyn Council and staff has put together a strategic plan and goals document for their current 4 year term.  I reviewed the 7 page document (click here to see document) of the 4 year targets and I am a little disappointed of the lack of vision council has for Selwyn. Most of the targets in this document can be accomplished within one or two years very easily. Quite frankly, some goals should not even be in this document. For example, one of the 4 year goals is to expand the leaf and yard waste pick up in Ennismore and through out the Township. Why is a County of Peterborough program on Selwyn strategic plan? Another silly goal is having name tags for staff and on hold music for the township. Is that really the priority of council in a four year term?

That said there is some excellent goals in this document as well. Council is looking to hold Town Hall meetings for each ward once a year. They are also considering blogging key community decisions. Over the next four years counsel will also review severance policy’s, update and review the official plan and work on natural gas and broadband expansion. 

The questions that jump out at me is: What is councils vision on parks, township properties, roads and fire department over the next four years? What type of financial reserves will we have? What is staffing levels going to look like? What is their vision on major projects and infrastructure will we see in all wards of Ennismore, Smith and Lakefield?

I challenge council to push themselves and have a vision that truly excites the community for the next four years.

That is all I have for you today.  

When you are in a need for a Realtor Check me online at www.bradsinclair.ca I would like to have you business.

Written for you by:

Your local Realtor®

If you are looking to either Buy or Sell in Selwyn or Peterborough contact me immediately at 705-927-6236

Brad Sinclair, Sales Representative

Royal LePage Frank Real Estate Brokerage

Solving Problems and Making Things Happen in Real Estate since 2007

www.bradsinclair.ca

www.royallepagerealestate.com

www.gowaterfront.ca