Mike Andruff's (mandruff) Blog

This residential area is bounded by two major transportation arterials. First, South West Marine Drive is southern access to the University of British Columbia. This high volume arterial has Vancouver's fabled prohibition era mansions prominently located on the road's west side. The other arteri...

Year over year, the South Granville sub area of Vancouver remains one of most prolific selling sub areas. What makes this happen? In my view, it is the centrality of the location, the size of the properties, the quality of the schools, the ease of transportation, and the proximity to places of w...

Most of us have heard about blogging, have been told to blog, and think its important but don't really know how important it may be. I run a website called www.VancouverPropertyFinder.com I use Active Rain to blog. My idea is to drive traffic from my blog to my website. (I also forward my blogs t...

  Who wants to shop?             Well if your are like my wife, you'll be spending a lot of time at the Oakridge Shopping Centre. This is Vancouver's premiere regional shopping mall. The mall is located at W. 41st Avenue and Cambie Street. In addition, this location is poised to become one of the...

Are you like me? Do you see the future of blogging as doing videos? Well I thought to spend a minute or two explaining my experience in shooting, editing, uploading and promoting my video. Shooting Recognizing videos have to be short to retain interest, think in terms of two to three minutes. Eve...

Say a city father said to you, "Bring the terminus of your railroad to our town, and we'll grant you prime land in our city to be." That was the deal the City of Vancouver offered the Canadian Pacific Railroad to locate in Vancouver over the intended location at the end of Burrard Inlet at Port ...

Quilchena is one of those central areas within Vancouver's Westside. For the most part it is the bowl of the highland area called the Arbutus Ridge.             When my late uncle was a boy, he used to fish for trout in the streams that existed where the Arbutus Village stands today (King Edward ...

The University Endowment Lands (UEL), is the western most sub area of Vancouver. It is the location of the University of British Columbia and has considerable real estate variety in the surrounding area. The UEL was originally a land grant to the university from the Provincial government. Subseq...

How many cities have equestrian lifestyles 20 minutes drive from downtown? Vancouver. Its Southlands sub area has a very engaged horsey community. Like many subareas this is one component of the area but it is significant. I have client who moved to Southlands to a small acreage where they can  ...

  In my early days, I can remember my father-in-law telling me that The Arbutus sub area of Vancouver was jokingly called "asthmatic flats". The reason for this was related to two things. First, the area is below the Arbutus ridge, a crescent shaped ridge just outside this area. It is lower land....