Is this Area Growing or Declining?

You can’t sell a house until buyers know it’s there. Lots of other factors can come into play, too, including a personal choice to take on fewer clients. The agent’s current client numbers aren’t always 100 percent indicative of how good an agent she is. When In Doubt, Ask! On the next page, we’ll learn how to ask about what the agent will do to get the word out. So if you have doubts it never hurts to raise your concerns with the agent directly.

Did he keep them well informed? In the real estate business, word of mouth recommendations are as good as gold, so a positive review from a past client will give you a good idea whether the agent is worth your time. However, be sure to ask the references if they’re related to the agent — a reference list made up of friends and relatives probably won’t give an unbiased assessment of the agent’s positive and negative qualities. Would they recommend him to others? In addition to information about himself, the real estate agent should be able to hand over information about the neighborhood in which you’re buying or selling your home.

Or, this could be a side gig for her which may or may not command much of her attention. You’ll need to weigh the pros and cons to find out if a busy agent can meet your needs, or whether you’re willing to compromise experience for more personalized attention. Since word of mouth is key in the real estate business, the best agents are likely to have a full workload.

Find out what business hours he keeps and — at the risk of sounding like a stalker — if you can call him outside of those hours on his cell or home phone. Our final question might sting a little — it’s time to turn the tables and ask the agent to deliver some bad news. Whether he answers e-mails in a timely fashion will also become important down the line. Hopefully, he’ll have positive responses to these questions, but it’s always smart to verify them when you check his references.

There are restaurants in this mall with no indoor entrances, including the Bellepro’s restaurant, Marathon Souvlaki (occupying some of the old M Store space and Jack Astor’s). Other stores with no indoor entrances are the clinics, the Guzzo movie theatre, a Canadian Tire & Optimum. The mall was expanded in 1986, and Steinberg moved out to the expanded space, becoming a Marché Du Jour (later Steinberg Plus in 1988 & Xtra in 1991). In addition, Miracle Mart was renamed M Store, and reducing the space of the store as well, giving part of the former Miracle Mart space to Bouclair. The mall opened on October 4, 1966, and was anchored by Steinberg’s and Miracle Mart.

Even today, much space in the mall remains empty with for renting signs plastered on vacant shop windows. The third floor is exclusively for rental office space. A fitness gym and a video lottery gambling bar are also situated within the mall. By 2011, in an effort to re-purpose much of the vacant shopping space into a more profitable venture, the mall owner, Canpro Investments Ltd., moved ahead with a project to convert more than a fifth of the 486,000 square foot mall’s retail space into a medical centre (spanning 3 floors) with room for doctors’ offices. Government service offices of the SAAQ automobile licence bureau, Saint-Laurent Local Employment Center and Service Canada employment insurance center are also found within the mall, as well as the Decarie Medical Centre. The mall includes the chain store Winners-HomeSense and various independent discount and service shops.