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Brent Jones, Real Estate Sales Representative – RE/MAX Niagara Realty Ltd., Brokerage – Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada

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People don’t buy houses; they buy homes

Real estate is a results-focused, performance-driven business, and choosing to work with the right realtor makes all the difference.

To me, a career in real estate means that I only succeed when my clients succeed.

Put another way, your success is my success.

Please allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Brent Jones and, alongside my beautiful wife, Andréa, and our two dogs, Stirling and Gibson, we relocated from Toronto to Fort Erie in 2014.

We chose to make Fort Erie our home, and I encourage you to do the same.

Click here to learn more about working with me or simply scroll down to check out some of my newest blog content.

Thinking of buying or selling?

Let’s talk. Contact me or drop me a line on Facebook.

I hope to serve you in the near future.

—Brent Jones

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Are realtors in Ontario a bunch of greedy pigs?

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Earlier this week, I met with a potential seller client to discuss listing his home for sale.

We had a conversation about commission and it went a little something like this:

Seller: What’s your fee?

Me: Six percent, if I thought your home would be difficult to sell. But since I’m pretty confident I can sell your home relatively fast, I’ll only take five percent.

Seller: Five? (taps his fingers on the kitchen table, thinking) So, if you sell my house for $400,000, you get $20,000?

Me: I don’t get to keep all of it, but you’ve got the right idea.

Seller: That seems a bit…steep. Can you do any better, Brent?

Any better? Part of me wanted to reply with, “Better? Are you effin’ kidding me? Do you have any idea what selling your house involves?”

But, of course, I was polite. I simply grabbed a pen and paper and began to break down for him exactly what a typical real estate transaction (in my market) looks like.Continue Reading

5 Things to Look for When Viewing an Older Home

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It almost goes without saying that, when viewing a property of any age or condition, a home inspection is an excellent idea.

This will help to uncover latent defects — the type of defects that may not be obvious based on a cursory glance, especially to an untrained eye.

The cost of having a home inspection done — often between $300 and $500 — pales in comparison to the cost of repairing a cracked, sinking foundation, or gutting the house to replace old knob and tube wiring.

For the purposes of this post, however, I want to address what are referred to as patent defects. In other words, defects anyone could see with an untrained eye, but might not.

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A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

—James N. Watkins

Entrepreneurs are the only people who will work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

—Lori Greiner

The Top Restaurants & Bars in Fort Erie, Ontario

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When you’re new in town, it usually doesn’t take long to start picking favorites. And by favorites, of course, I’m referring to where to grab breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even a few drinks in between.

Since moving to town in 2014, my wife and I have tried eating (and drinking) just about everywhere we can. In part, because we love to support local businesses, but mostly because we really like to eat (and drink).

If you happen to enjoy a particular restaurant or bar and it doesn’t appear on this list, it might be because I either…

  • haven’t been there enough to form an opinion, or
  • I’ve been there and didn’t have a great experience.

In all likelihood, however, I simply forgot to include it. What can I say? For a small town, Fort Erie has a lot of options to choose from.

Here are my top picks (in no particular order).

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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

—Publilius Syrus

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

—Stephen Covey

Stirling’s Story: A Review of Dr. Jim Turpel and Upper Canada Animal Hospital

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This is our dog, Stirling.

I know it’s probably not immediately obvious, but Stirling is a giant suck. He’ll be turning six on June 30, 2019, and you can find more photos and videos of him on Instagram.

After several months of intermittent limping (lameness), Stirling experienced a complete rupture of the cranial cruciate ligament (CCL) in his hind right leg on May 3, 2019.

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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

—Dale Carnegie

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Address & Phone Number

RE/MAX Niagara Realty Ltd., Brokerage
170 Central Ave., Fort Erie, ON L2A 3S7

direct 905-626-8826
office 905-871-5555
fax 905-871-9765