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  CFA Announces 2008 Award of Excellence Finalists
  PropertyGuys.com named as Finalist April 2008
  The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) is pleased to announce the three finalists for the 2008 CFA Award of Excellence. The ultimate prize in Canadian franchising, the CFA Award of Excellence is bestowed on the franchise system that has developed the strongest, most mutually rewarding relationships with its franchisees.
  
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  Moncton graphic designer up for national award
  PropertyGuys.com rebranding earns nod from Canadian Franchise Association April 2008
  You may have noticed PropertyGuys.com’s new look on signs blooming across Metro Moncton over the past few weeks. The new signs are part of a six-month project to completely rebrand the 10-year old company and though the new brand is just starting to go public, the work is already up for a national award.
  
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  PropertyGuys.com sells a convenient real estate concept
  Franchise Canada Magazine April 2008
  Great business ideas can come from the most unexpected places, as long as you’re paying attention. For PropertyGuys.com CEO Ken LeBlanc, a daily commute during his second year at Atlantic Baptist University led to his inspiration. “During my travels back and forth to university I would see a number of ‘for sale by owner’ signs on lawns but I also noticed the lack of success the majority of these people were experiencing, primarily because of minimal exposure,” says LeBlanc. “So, that made me think of creating an Internet community for local ‘for sale by owners’ to post their homes and thus capitalize on the exposure of the World Wide Web.”
  
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  Our Business Our Home
  Canada Business Franchies Magazine April 2008
  Tracey and I are co-franchisees for PropertyGuys.com, in Prince Edward Island. Our business provides and maintains an Internet portal through which independent home sellers and buyers can communicate. We’ve also got staffing issues to consider – business has doubled every year since we began in March 2005 and it’s getting too big for us to handle on our own.
  
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  Party of five
  Progress Magazine March 2008
  It has been just nine years since Ken LeBlanc and university pal Jeremy Demont launched PropertyGuys.com, a private sale real estate marketing business based in Moncton, N.B., with $100 in their pockets, recycled electoral lawn signs, a borrowed van and a modest website. Their goal was to give homeowners viable cost-effective choices when it came to selling their most valuable asset.
  
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  The buck stops here: Renegotiating the dollar
  Report on Business January 2008
  Earlier this year, Ken LeBlanc was feeling pretty good about his company’s growth. As the CEO and president of PropertyGuys.com, he’d seen the Moncton business go from a single shop to 94 franchises across Canada in under 10 years.
  
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  Apprehension to appreciation
  FINANCIAL POST November 2007
  While studying at Atlantic Baptist University in Moncton, NB, four long-time friends had a brainstorm: Online, low overhead real estate buying and selling, which they went on to launch as PropertyGuys.com. With funding from CYBF they requested their business professor Dannie Brown to take on the role of mentor.
  
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  PropertyGuys.com Changing the way people buy and sell real estate
  no more commission, no more middle men. March 2006
  Today’s information superhighway is transforming nearly every aspect of the real estate world. PropertyGuys.com’s vision is bringing fundamental change to the $100 billion dollar real estate industry by harnessing the power of the internet. The company’s franchise owners are in a prime position to tackle a real estate market that has become ripe for revolution.
  
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  FOR SALE BY OWNER
  FRANCHISE A HOT PROPERTY May 2005
  There was a time when Norm Hayes swore he’d never invest in another franchise. Lured by assurances of easy money, the BC businessman had bought an over-priced business with equally excessive equipment cost. Too late, he discovered that his franchise agreement didn’t offer any leeway to experiment with new ideas when he ran into problems. “I thought I was building my retirement fund,” says Hayes, “but I lost a lot of money instead. That’s when I made up my mind to stay away from franchises.” Then he discovered PropertyGuys.com.
  
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  PRIVATE SALE INDUSTRY READY TO SET SALE …
  GET ON BOARD! July 2004
  Would you have like the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of the McDonald’s franchise? What about investing in a young start-up company called Microsoft? Or better yet, what if you had the opportunity to partner with Sam Walton and his Wal-Mart empire? Well, the tide is shifting in the real estate world and PropertyGuys.com is building the ship! Now is the time to get on board.
  
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  Top 25 Successful Canadian Franchises
  Canadian Business Franchise Magazine March 2004
  Often referred to as “For Sale By Owner”, the private sale market of the traditionally brokered real estate industry is gaining in popularity as home sellers look for more cost effective ways to sell their homes. PropertyGuys.com is taking advantage of this changing consumer mindset and carving itself a niche within the private sale market.
  
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  PropertyGuys.com Starts Real Estate Revolution
  Cover Story July 2003
  With their sights set on filling an age-old gap in the real estate market and ensuring that home-owners are able to hang on to as much of their hard-earned money as possible, Ken LeBlanc and his team at PropertyGuys.com have developed a national franchising network that promise to revolutionize the “For Sale By Owner” (FSBO) real estate market.
  
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