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‘Put Us On Your Radar’ Contest Winner

Congratulations to Ali Karbassi for winning the TrueCondos.com “Put Us On Your Radar” contest.  Ali is a real estate investor and currently works in business development & interactive marketing. Ali generously asked his prize of the $50 Best Buy gift card to be donated to Cancer.ca instead.

If you have not ‘put us on your radar’ yet, please do. This is a brand new web service that is now in Beta and allows my clients, customers, followers, and fans interact with me in a whole new way. Radar now supports Facebook messaging too! If you have already signed up but not yet set-up your account options for receiving ‘pulses’, please login to your account and set up your delivery options.

Stay tuned for more contests in the future and thank you to the hundreds who are subscribing, following, commenting, emailing, and working with TrueCondos.com! If you have ideas for how this service can be improved, please let me know.

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New Condo Search Websites Popping Up Everywhere

New condo buyers in Toronto are finally getting some serious attention from ‘the industry’ and it looks like the future isn’t entirely bleak for those wanting a true web 2.0 experience when searching online for information on new developments. This month two new Toronto condo search websites have popped up recently that I wanted to share with my readers: CondoCatch and Novo Condo.

CondoCatch is a fairly simple yet effective Google maps-based site which shows most of the new condo developments in Toronto on a map along with their key stats and occupancy dates. One neat feature is the ‘timeline’ which shows in chronological order the expected occupancy dates of their database of new condos. I’m not sure who runs CondoCatch or what their goals are, but it looks like they are not agents and they are focused on creating a useful tool for consumers.

Novo Condo is based out of Montreal and is a more sophisticated and professional looking site, but the basic premise is the same. They offer consumers a Google map of the GTA with most of the major condo projects included and the ability to contact the developer directly for more information. Clearly the focus on Novo Condo is on the developer/marketer/agent side of the equation to generate sales leads and interact with potential buyers and investors.

Check them out and let me know what you think!

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Edit: I made a change to the contest rules since first posting this because of an excellent suggestion from a long-time subscriber.

Announcing the first ever contest on TrueCondos.com!

I’ve been overwhelmed by the response this website/blog has generated over the past 2+ years I’ve been running it. I’ve met so many great people through this site, and many of them have told me that TrueCondos.com is possibly the best site on the net for Downtown Toronto Condos.

I’ve had the option for my readers to subscribe to this blog by email for a while now (see sidebar to the right ->), and my subscriber list is approaching a milestone – 100 RSS subscribers (currently we are at 91). That’s pretty awesome and I’m happy that so many people care enough about what I have to say to actually voluntarily subscribe to this blog.

I wanted to do something special and fun to celebrate #100, so as soon as the 100th person has subscribed to the TrueCondos.com RSS feed, I will do a random draw of the 100 subscribers, and the winner will receive a gift card to Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse valued at $88 CDN.

To enter, all you need to do is enter your email into the subscribe box in the right sidebar, then verify your email address after you receive a verification email. That’s it! No catch, nothing to sign, nothing to commit to, just subscribe and thank you for continuing to support this website. If you are already a subscriber you have already been entered automatically!

I will announce the winner whenever we reach 100. Might take a week, might take a month. Who knows.

Couple rules: Subscribers must be NEW subscribers (no doubling up on the email addresses), and subscribers can’t be my immediate family and friends (sorry mom). And what the heck, just to cover my butt I’ll say I reserve the right to change the contest rules at any time

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