Congratulations to Ali Karbassi for winning the truecondos.com/wp “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/wp! If you have ideas for how this service can be improved, please let me know.

The winner of the prize of the Ruth’s Chris gift card valued at $88 is Ayaz Lalani of Brampton, Ontario. Ayaz is a seasoned condo investor and has been a subscriber to truecondos.com/wp for several months. Congrats to Ayaz.

Thank you to everyone who subscribes, reads, or even just trolls this blog. Stay tuned to truecondos.com/wp for more contests in the future. If you have an idea for how I can make truecondos.com/wp an even better website for condo buyers, sellers, and investors in Toronto, send me an email any time!

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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/wp!

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/wp 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/wp 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

Fly Condos – a new condo development by Empire Communities located at Spadina and Front St is trying something new. In an effort to promote the project, the developer is holding a Celebrity Look Alike Contest with the winner getting $75,000 off of the purchase of a suite at Fly Condos. Very interesting tactic and obviously aimed at building some buzz and creating some hype for the project, especially amongst the under-30 crowd who they are very clearly marketing their project to.

The downtown Toronto Condo market is red hot and developers are constantly trying to attract investors and first time buyers alike to choose their project over the many others available in the city. There are so many new condo projects launching every month all over the city of Toronto that developers are now getting very creative in their marketing and promotion schemes in advance of launching their sites. Fly Condos Celebrity Look Alike Contest is just one more example of this creative, non-traditional real estate marketing.

So if you reckon you look a little like Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie, why not enter the contest and find out? Presumbaly the winner of the contest will be the person most closely resembling their chosen celebrity as voted by visitors to the Fly Condos Contest website.

If you are thinking about purchasing a unit at Fly Condos but you don’t want to wait until the sales office opens to the public, or you just aren’t interested in waiting to see if you really do look like Brad Pitt, please contact me for VIP sales before the public.