REM editor Jim Adair says goodbye | REM

Again in the 1970s, when I remaining a work at the Mississauga Occasions to get the job done for the Toronto Genuine Estate Board, I was tasked with crafting a farewell column to audience. A veteran reporter at our competition experienced just written a equivalent column, in which he thanked dozens of distinguished nearby and national politicians and celebrities. But I experienced only been working at the Times for four months and did not have an spectacular checklist of contacts to thank.

So I wrote that I could not thank absolutely everyone I worked with at the Periods, not since I did not have the space but because I hadn’t but acquired all their names. To make enjoyment of the other columnist’s name-dropping, I thanked Mick Jagger and Margaret Trudeau, because “as far as I know, they have hardly ever mentioned a poor issue about me.”

Nicely, now it’s time to say goodbye to REM’s viewers and the shoe is on the other foot. The checklist of men and women I’d like to thank is much too extended to involve everyone who helped me condition the editorial material of REM for the past 33 decades. But listed here are some who made a sizeable effect.

It starts off with the dozens of freelance journalists REM hired around the decades. Susan Doran experienced a tale in the very initially difficulty of REM and has written hundreds of content articles for us considering the fact that then, not often missing a thirty day period. Kathy Bevan was REM’s ace reporter for several a long time, chasing down tales even when the topics did not want to be interviewed. 1 yr for the duration of the Western Link meeting, she cornered a actual estate board EO in an elevator when he tried using to escape her inquiries.

Several thanks also to Toby Welch, writer of far more than 100 REM characteristics, and other extended-time freelancers Diane Slawych, Mario Toneguzzi, Danny Kucharsky, Yvonne Dick, Don Procter, Sohini Bhattacharya, Dennis McCloskey, Connie Adair, Steve Maxwell, Myles Shane, Tony Palermo and the late Lloyd Manning.

REM wouldn’t have gained the believability it has in the authentic estate market without the contributions of lots of latest and former Realtors, who crammed our web pages with guidance and observations, and did not shy absent from controversy.

Marty Douglas wrote far more than 250 columns, at first known as Western Perspectives and then Metes & Bounds.

Barry Lebow, who helped REM score a agreement to create a magazine for a home finance loan broker’s affiliation, wrote dozens of columns and additional just lately began creating films that he shared with REM viewers.

Dan St. Yves, a former true estate agent in Kelowna, has been crafting a month to month humour column for REM considering the fact that 2000, never missing a month.

Carolyne has furnished as a lot of Recipes for Realtors columns as we could use. She is also the most prolific commenter on all REM stories, featuring her take on the industry’s most recent information. (And many thanks also to our other most recurrent commenters, Brian Martindale and PED.)

I also owe a financial debt of gratitude to Ross Wilson, Debbie Hanlon, Stan Albert, Ted Greenhough, Mark Brodsky, Chris Seepe, Aiman Attar, Peggy Blair, Aaron at TRES Labs and the late Albert Teichner. They all presented a wealth of information and facts for Realtors – simply click on the Columnists and Tips for Agents tabs on this web-site and verify out their tales, and people of a lot of other visitor columnists.

The most-examine tales on REM were being continuously individuals working with lawful problems, and we were blessed with several exceptional legal writers. They incorporate Natalka Falcomer, Don Lapowich, Mark Weisleder, Martin Rumack, Bob Aaron, Shaneka Shaw Taylor, James Cook and a single of REM’s most significant supporters, Avi Rosen. Lots of many thanks to you all.

Our print journal had a resident photographer – Marko Shark, who then turned the task around to his son Elijah. Thanks for all the terrific photographs men. And many thanks to Craig Hodge and Darla Furlani, who provided REM include shots from the West Coastline.

Thanks to those who presented REM with their movie content material: David Greenspan, Richard Robbins, Toni Sing and Jenny Wun, Shawn Bell, Nicole Attias and quite a few other people.

To all people who sent me a tale about a new business employ the service of or charitable endeavour in their local community, thank you. Thanks to all the boards and associations who despatched us editorial contributions and dispersed the print version of REM to their users. Thanks to the personnel at CREA, who supported us all over the many years, even while they usually didn’t care for what we wrote and were irritated that we refused to place Real estate agent in money letters.

And last but not least (indeed, I know the tunes is participating in and they want me to wind this up), a term about the individuals at REM. Artwork director Liz Mackin experienced good persistence in putting jointly most of the print issues in excess of the decades. Thanks also to graphic designers Shawn Kelly, Yee Truong and Eilidh Harding.

It was terrific performing with “Uncle Barry” Holmes, and later on sales director Dennis Rock. When Dennis retired, his daughter Amanda arrived on board and right away turned the most well known REM staffer at trade reveals.

Thanks also to tricky-operating manufacturing and distribution supervisor Mila Purcell (who bought me hooked on Brother Jack McDuff) and generation co-ordinator Judy Cupsky.

I wrote about Heino Molls and the launch of REM when he retired. We lost Heino in 2019 and I’ve imagined about him every working day since.

William Molls took around as REM’s publisher and CEO and has designed a valiant work to retain it going in the course of the pandemic, never ever straying from our philosophy of delivering quality editorial articles and not marketing out, when it would have been simple to do so. Thanks for all your aid, Will. Your dad would be very pleased.

Alright, which is enough, besides for a own plug: whilst I will be “mostly retired”,  I’ll carry on writing about Canadian serious estate in my column at Realty Situations. And I seem ahead to viewing what a new staff will do with REM.