REM editor Jim Adair says goodbye | REM

Back in the 1970s, when I left a career at the Mississauga Occasions to perform for the Toronto Actual Estate Board, I was tasked with producing a farewell column to viewers. A veteran reporter at our competitors had just created a similar column, in which he thanked dozens of distinguished regional and nationwide politicians and famous people. But I had only been doing the job at the Occasions for four months and didn’t have an remarkable listing of contacts to thank.

So I wrote that I could not thank absolutely everyone I labored with at the Instances, not mainly because I did not have the space but simply because I hadn’t yet figured out all their names. To make entertaining of the other columnist’s name-dropping, I thanked Mick Jagger and Margaret Trudeau, since “as much as I know, they have never mentioned a terrible thing about me.”

Perfectly, now it is time to say goodbye to REM’s audience and the shoe is on the other foot. The listing of individuals I’d like to thank is much too extensive to include everybody who assisted me form the editorial information of REM for the final 33 decades. But in this article are some who created a sizeable effect.

It starts with the dozens of freelance journalists REM employed about the many years. Susan Doran experienced a tale in the extremely to start with issue of REM and has composed hundreds of content articles for us due to the fact then, almost never missing a thirty day period. Kathy Bevan was REM’s ace reporter for various many years, chasing down stories even when the topics did not want to be interviewed. Just one calendar year throughout the Western Connection conference, she cornered a actual estate board EO in an elevator when he experimented with to escape her thoughts.

Lots of many thanks also to Toby Welch, creator of extra than 100 REM capabilities, and other extensive-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 received the credibility it has in the real estate market with no the contributions of a lot of latest and previous Realtors, who loaded our pages with tips and observations, and did not shy absent from controversy.

Marty Douglas wrote additional than 250 columns, at first identified as Western Views and then Metes & Bounds.

Barry Lebow, who aided REM rating a deal to develop a journal for a home loan broker’s association, wrote dozens of columns and a lot more not too long ago commenced creating films that he shared with REM readers.

Dan St. Yves, a former actual estate agent in Kelowna, has been creating a regular monthly humour column for REM due to the fact 2000, in no way lacking a month.

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

I also owe a personal 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 offered a wealth of information and facts for Realtors – simply click on the Columnists and Advice for Brokers tabs on this web page and examine out their tales, and those of several other guest columnists.

The most-examine tales on REM have been constantly those dealing with authorized issues, and we ended up blessed with many exceptional authorized writers. They include Natalka Falcomer, Don Lapowich, Mark Weisleder, Martin Rumack, Bob Aaron, Shaneka Shaw Taylor, James Prepare dinner and one particular of REM’s greatest supporters, Avi Rosen. Numerous many thanks to you all.

Our print magazine had a resident photographer – Marko Shark, who then turned the task about to his son Elijah. Many thanks for all the good photographs men. And many thanks to Craig Hodge and Darla Furlani, who offered REM include photographs from the West Coastline.

Many thanks to these who supplied REM with their online video content: David Greenspan, Richard Robbins, Toni Sing and Jenny Wun, Shawn Bell, Nicole Attias and several many others.

To every person who sent me a story about a new business office seek the services of or charitable endeavour in their neighborhood, 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 employees at CREA, who supported us all over the yrs, even nevertheless they often did not treatment for what we wrote and were annoyed that we refused to place Real estate agent in capital letters.

And at last (of course, I know the music is actively playing and they want me to wind this up), a phrase about the persons at REM. Art director Liz Mackin had good persistence in placing alongside one another most of the print problems over the decades. Many thanks also to graphic designers Shawn Kelly, Yee Truong and Eilidh Harding.

It was terrific functioning with “Uncle Barry” Holmes, and later sales director Dennis Rock. When Dennis retired, his daughter Amanda arrived on board and straight away became the most preferred REM staffer at trade exhibits.

Many thanks also to really hard-functioning creation and distribution manager Mila Purcell (who received me hooked on Brother Jack McDuff) and production co-ordinator Judy Cupsky.

I wrote about Heino Molls and the start of REM when he retired. We misplaced Heino in 2019 and I have assumed about him each individual working day given that.

William Molls took more than as REM’s publisher and CEO and has designed a valiant effort and hard work to keep it going through the pandemic, in no way straying from our philosophy of furnishing excellent editorial material and not offering out, when it would have been simple to do so. Many thanks for all your support, Will. Your father would be very pleased.

Okay, which is more than enough, besides for a personal plug: although I will be “mostly retired”,  I’ll go on composing about Canadian authentic estate in my column at Realty Instances. And I look ahead to observing what a new team will do with REM.