Raymond Mendoza

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  Raymond Mendoza 2:09 pm on December 10, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  TOM’S LOSS- New York Post 

  TOM Cruise – who’s been on a messianic-type tour of Toronto for the past couple of days, giving umpteen interviews to anyone and everyone for “Valkyrie” – has lost his BlackBerry, National Post columnist Shinan Govani reports. After Cruise did a full-hour interview with “Entertainment Tonight Canada,” his people called the studio asking if anyone had found the gadget. “A search was done, but, nada,” Govani said. “So, basically, someone in Toronto has Top Gun’s crackberry.”

  via TOM’S LOSS- New York Post.

  When I heard of Tom’s blackberry loss this morning, I immediately felt his pain, and immediately remembered I left my blackberry on my counter… in my bathroom. Research in Motion employees like me have a special type of addiction. It’s basically another limb. It’s always attached to us and we develop software for it to make it better … much like working out a muscle to make it stronger.

  It’s sad, but admission is the first step.
   

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  Raymond Mendoza 1:59 am on December 10, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Toronto Real Estate Intelligence | Toronto’s Real Estate Blog | GTA Market Trends 

  In about two months, market sentiment turned on a dime in the Greater Toronto Area this fall. Until the end of the summer, the feeling was that the GTA was successfully negotiating a landing to a slower, more sustainable pace of activity since home resales had been gracefully trending lower since peaking in the middle of 2007 at never-before-seen levels. However, reports of notable declines in prices and activity in many Toronto communities during September and October suddenly challenged that view. While there is no cause to panic at this stage, the GTA market has undoubtedly entered a phase of consolidation. Earlier tightness has eased and buyers now hold more sway. The area’s economy is facing serious headwinds, which will undermine household confidence. Affordability generally remains an obstacle to would-be buyers, although it has improved modestly in the past few quarters.

  via Toronto Real Estate Intelligence | Toronto’s Real Estate Blog | GTA Market Trends.

  When to buy? It seems like a promising, but uncertain time for home buyers thinking about pulling the trigger.