This is your time to be heard, by one another, across the country, as well as
by ORE leadership.
Too much time and money has been spent
by ORE on positive image campaigns, and not enough of same on producing high numbers of in - the - field professionals who reflect the image.
It is also an indication of the relatively low bar that has been set
by ORE for the establishment of a minimum intellectual standard for a REALTOR population that deems itself to be professionial.
Cooperation with the government
by ORE may over time diminish ongoing interventions.
Any one who thinks that he / she can jump onto the over-crowded real estate gravy train (which is really a jammed pork - ride on the way to the slaughterhouse) with nothing to offer of substance (like real world experience in a related field) with naught but a passing grade on a few exams is a fool waiting to have his / her pockets picked
by the ORE dues structure.
Being a professional is NOT for everyone with a few bucks to risk up front, who can't get a job anywhere else, but who have bought in to a sales job
by ORE and too many brokerages expounding the POSSIBILITY (probability even?)
Some form of educational / experiential discrimination needs to be exercised
by ORE in order to ultimately produce professional Realtors in possession of discriminating, disciplined minds.
The actual professional Realtors are constantly being sold out
by ORE as the never - ending flood of incompetent failures - in - waiting churns through the well - greased system.
This concept is one that has been suppressed over the decades
by the ORE sales culture's indoctrination process.
The entire MLS infrastructure remains fully rooted in Seller Agency from the monthly press releases issued
by ORE on selling prices to false claims that real estate is a great financial «investment» to claims of a market being «HOT» or «supply low» when in fact it is the incompetence of Buyers Agents that allows this nonsense to continue.
We don't need members of the liars» club (brokerages or Realtors) to be kept in the position of handling the largest transactions that most people will ever make throughout their lifetimes
by ORE oversight officials.
Signed: Your friendly former - Realtor critic - at - large with no vested interest in whether anything changes or not, but who, for the minority of real live professionals who populate the ranks of the misbegotten, feels sorry for the negative tar - brushing from the public that they receive thanks to the policies of ORE that serves the interests of «their» own back pockets whilst claiming to be there for their dues - payers as they routinely, by way of turning that blind big eye, throw them under the bus of wasted, unrealistic (supported
by ORE) dreams.
Why has RECO (in the province of Ontario) never been asked
by ORE to disclose what actually constitutes «trading in real estate».
The machines handle the decaying element's radiation better than human miners and can tolerate the radon gas released
by the ore; early Navajo miners of uranium in the U.S. — and their families exposed to residual radioactive dust and debris as well as contaminated water — developed lung cancer and other ailments by the 1970s and 1980s.
Let us serve each other
by ore God - given talents, and we all will survive, and even reach some wealth.
Not exact matches
Fortescue Metals Group has reported increased iron
ore shipments over the December quarter, but the benefits have been offset
by costs of expanding and ramping up operations.
China - backed iron
ore miners in the Mid West are preparing to join forces to develop a port and rail link to Oakajee if the current proposal
by Oakajee Port and Rail fails to proceed.
Perth - based Volta Mining, headed
by former DMC Mining founder and managing director David Sumich, is venturing into central West Africa with the acquisition of its first iron
ore project.
Earlier this year, a deal to refine iron
ore by China's Haicheng Xiyang Group went south after North Korean officials «shook down» the Chinese investors, according to a Reuters report.
Iron
ore miner Pluton Resources has settled proceedings against junior secured creditor Rizhao Port Group Logistics, which includes the removal of receivers appointed
by Rizhao in disputed circumstances last month.
The founder and chairman of Fortescue Metals Group has reaffirmed his commitment to the iron
ore industry
by increasing his stake in the business, buying $ 6.9 million worth of shares in an on - market trade.
Iron
ore miner BC Iron has continued its run of cost saving initiatives at its Nullagine operation
by awarding a $ 40 million road haulage contract to QUBE Holdings.
Shares in Atlas Iron surged on news it had lowered its cash costs in July
by $ 11 per wet metric tonne, with the iron
ore miner flagging more cash flow in August.
Iron
ore miner Gindalbie Metals has extended its finance facility for its Karara magnetite project in the Mid West
by three years and an additional $ US400 million ($ 428 million).
The value of Australian iron
ore exports is expected to fall next year as strong growth in production volumes is offset
by a slump in prices to a forecast $ US52.10 per tonne in 2016.
A new iron
ore mine proposed
by BHP Billiton, and revisions to conditions placed on Rio Tinto's Marandoo iron
ore project near Tom Price, have been recommended for approval
by the environmental watchdog.
Iron
ore miner Rio Tinto is following its big investment in driverless trucks and trains
by announcing plans to nearly double its fleet of autonomous drilling rigs.
Mid-tier iron
ore miner Mineral Resources has increased its full - year net profit
by 28 per cent to $ 231 million, with the help of a 93 per cent increase in iron
ore export volumes.
The state government has extended its discounted charges at the Utah Point bulk handling facility
by another year, to help junior miners continue exporting iron
ore, as debate around the sale of the port continues.
Fortescue Metals Group has ended a tough week for the iron
ore sector
by halving its projected capital expenditure for the 2015 financial year to $ US650 million, in response to the continued weakening of the iron
ore price.
Fortescue Metals Group's Christmas Creek iron
ore mine site has been raided for drugs
by WA Police, working in cooperation with the company, as part of a crackdown of mine sites across the state.
The state government has announced a $ 40 million package to reduce charges at the Utah Point bulk handling facility
by up to $ 2.50 per tonne, in an effort to help junior miners continue to export iron
ore.
Amid a few bright spots on the earnings front, the WA economy's rebound is being thwarted
by still - low global prices for iron
ore.
It should be clear
by now to Andrew Forrest that his campaign for a political inquiry into the iron
ore industry has done the company he runs, Fortescue Metals Group, more harm than good — and might even have stirred up trouble for another local billionaire, Gina Rinehart.
To best understand what's gone wrong with Western Australia's iron
ore industry you need to start
by looking back 12 years, to 2003, when an ambitious Andrew Forrest created Fortescue Metals Group.
High - end residential property prices in Perth have weakened considerably since the iron
ore construction boom ended and oil prices collapsed, although these two negative events are slowly slipping from the headlines and being replaced
by positive changes.
Construction is officially underway at Gindalbie Metal's $ 1.8 billion Karara iron
ore project in the Mid West following an official ground - breaking ceremony held on site this morning attended
by Premier Colin Barnett.
Rio Tinto's decade - long move towards autonomous haulage has hit a big milestone, with 1 billion tonnes of iron
ore and waste material now transported
by driverless trucks.
That in turn could send ripples around the world economy,
by causing a moderation in Chinese demand for imports, from iron
ore to iPhones.
COCKATOO Island, touted as a stunning new tourist resort in the heart of WA's Kimberley region, will be the site of a revitalised $ 7.4 million resource project
by Portman Mining Limited aimed at boosting its iron
ore production.
A MOVE
by mining giant North Limited to slash about $ 100 million from its balance sheets has resulted in redundancies and operational restructuring
by Pilbara iron
ore miner Robe River Iron Associates.
Mid-tier iron
ore miner Mineral Resources has increased its full - year net profit
by 28 per cent, but has missed its mark of about $ 250 million outlined in its half - yearly report.
A higher iron
ore price has helped Atlas Iron post operating cash flow of $ 58 million in the December quarter, as the company maintained that it would reach a net cash position
by the middle of the year.
Five years ago, the company swung for the fences
by acquiring iron
ore and chromite mines in Canada.
Nickel, iron
ore, palladium, platinum and copper all declined
by 25 percent or more.
Global imports of iron
ore have risen
by about two - thirds since 2000.
But I really was convinced of my math, which connected iron
ore prices inexorably with the extraordinarily large gap between China's Nominal GDP growth and interest rates set
by the PBoC, and it was clearly impossible to maintain this gap.
Normally the contraction impact of much weaker iron
ore export prices should be partially mitigated
by the expansion impact of a weaker Australian dollar, as iron - related inflows drop sharply.
I expected that the shift in demand for iron
ore generated
by rebalancing would cause iron
ore prices within 3 - 4 years to drop
by over 50 % from their then - current levels of around $ 180 - 90 a ton.
Growth is seen being led
by gains in
ores and metals, aerospace, and forestry, according to Export Development Canada