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Books

 

  97 Tips For Canadian Real Estate Investors  -  Don R Campbell, Peter Kinch, Barry McGuire  -  2006  ISBN: 0470838086
   
  Real Estate Investing in Canada: Creating Wealth With The ACRE System  -  Don R Campbell  -  2005  ISBN: 0470835885
   
  Rich Dad's Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest That The Poor and Middle Class Do Not  -  Robert Kiyosaki  -  2000  ISBN: 0446677469
   
  Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon Lechter  -  2000 

ISBN: 0446677450

   
  Who Took My Money  -  Robert Kiyosaki  -  2004  ISBN: 0446691828
   
  Sales Dogs  -  Blair Singer  -  2001  ISBN: 0446678333
   
  Three Cups of Tea  -  Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin  -  2007

ISBN: (hc) 0-670-03482-7, (pbk) 978-0-14-303825-2

   
  Made To Stick  -  Chip Heath and Dan Heath  -  2007

ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-6428-1

   
  The Monk and The Riddle  -  Randy Komisar  -  2001

ISBN: 1-57851-644-7

   
  The Naked Investor  -  John Lawrence Reynolds  -  2007 (revised edition)

ISBN: 0-14-305543-7

   
  Survival Is Not Enough  -  Seth Godin  -  2002  ISBN: 0-7432-2571-6
   
- New - Built to Last  -  Jim Collins and Jerry Porras  - 2002 ISBN-10: (pbk) 0-06-051640-2
   

 

 

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Personal Credit

 

  Equifax - obtain you credit report and score immediately (fee)  
 

Free credit file disclosure form (via mail only)

 
     
  TransUnion - obtain your credit report and score immediately (one time fee)  
 

Information on obtaining your free credit disclosure and form (via mail only)

 
     
  Credit Alert - comprehensive credit package including your credit report, credit score, credit monitoring and quarterly updates. (subscription)  
     
  Understanding Your Credit Report and Credit Score - Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (pdf version)  
     

 

 

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Tools

 

  Investment Calculators  -  Two great calculators in one place: (1) Calculate the future value of your investment taking into account inflation and (2) calculate the investment needed now to reach a given future value  
     
  Insurance Bureau of Canada  -  Home Inventory worksheets  
 

Spreadsheet Format (select "Save" to download a personal copy)

 
 

PDF Hardcopy Format

 
     
  Mutual Fund Fee Impact Calculator  -  Understand how MER's, fees and other charges will affect the performance of you mutual funds.  
     
  Bank of Canada - Currency Converter:  
 

Today's Exchange Rate    or    10 Year Historical Rates

 

 

 

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Miscellaneous

 

- Upd - Cashflow Game Rule Enhancements - take your game to the next level. (updated 2008-04-23)  
     
  Need A Reason Not To Invest? - from CI Investments  
     

 

 

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Reports

Economics & Statistics

 

  Bank of Canada  
 

Historical Interest Rates  -  for prime rates select "Prime business ("prime rate")" and for conventional fixed mortgage rates select "Conventional mortgage".

 
  BMO Capital Markets  
  CIBC World Markets  
  CMHC House Market Information  
  Demographia  
  Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)  
  RBC Economics  
 

Canadian Market Updates

 
 

Housing Affordability Index

 
  TD Economics  
  ScotiaBank   
  Statistics Canada  
 

Population and Community Profiles

 
 

Census Highlights

 
  Urban Futures  
  FP Markets - MoneySense  -  Canada's Best Places To Live 2007  
 

Complete 2007 FP Markets - available to order or in some libraries

 
     
     
  The Great Moderation  -  the true picture of annual GDP growth between 1930 and 2006 from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Business Week  
     

 

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Miscellaneous

  Avison Young  -  Canada wide market reports  
     
  Calgary Transportation Report  -  Real Estate Investment Network (REIN)  September 2007  -  Calgary News Release  
     
  Edmonton Transportation Report  -  Real Estate Investment Network (REIN)  2007  -  Edmonton News Release  
     
  Are Mutual Funds The Best Investment For You?  -  Robert Goldin 2003  
     
  International Housing Affordability Survey 2008 - Demographia's survey of housing affordability based on Q3 2007 data  
     

 

 

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Oil Sands

 

Alberta 2020  -  Alberta Economic Development - 2005

 

The Oil Sands of Alberta  -  60 Minutes - June 26, 2006

 

 

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Pine Beetle

 

How Global Warming & The Pine Beetle Could Devastate The BC Interior's Real Estate Markets  -  Real Estate Investment Network (REIN) - September 2007  (4.63 MB)

 

Timber Supply and the Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation in British Columbia 2007 Update   -   BC Ministry of Forest and Range (Pine Beetle Information Page)

(2.25 MB)

 

 

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Subprime Markets

 

  Subprime, Shmubprime  -  Financial Post - August 15, 2007  
     
  Subprime Crisis.  What Subprime Crisis?  -  Don R. Campbell  -  Full version of Financial Post article  
 

What Subprime Crisis  -  Financial Post - September 8, 2007

 

 

 

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