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follow-up to what the market is doing this fall.

First at our Coast Realty staff meeting we discussed the slowing market and what kind of things we can be doing to stay in business even through tougher times. We discussed such things as using the internet as a low cost or cost free way of developing a sound marketing system for homes. Websites such as Craigslist, eBay, Kijiji, facebook, blogging, personal websites, local websites and so on were discussed as useful tools for marketing ourselves and our listings. I think this is great and I have been using many of these marketing avenues in the past but our meeting put it into focus that these need to be further developed in a slowing market. Community involvement in service clubs, networking groups or other social setting was seen as great ways to develop business. We also discussed many other topics but I won't bore you with the rest.

My second meeting of the day required me to change my hat and meet as a member of the City of Port Alberni Planning Commission. On this month's agenda was the proposed rezoning of three apprtment buildings of four units each that sit on one acre of land. The owner wished to subdivide into three separate titles. The motivation for doing so seemed to be so the owner would be more reflexive to changing market and would have options of selling or redeveloping one, two or all three parcels separately. Seems like common sense to me, but again this is a reflection of where our market is headed in the short term and solidifies most of what the market has been telling us for the last six to eight months.

My dinner time meeting was as a candidate member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada. It was an interesting meeting with a room full of around 60 appraisers from the Nanaimo (mid-island) chapter. The unanimous view here was very much the same as my previous meeting of the day. We discussed what the slowing market meant for appraisers but what was surprising was how well, comparatively speaking, the Alberni Valley is doing in comparison to our surrounding markets.

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