72 - Friday. May 7. 1999 — North Shore News site addresses legal Concerns from paige statistics on housing, starts, interest rates ete. The site also Las mere types of mort- gage calculators than vou could ever use. You can cal- culate mortgage payments, balance owing, rotal interest paid, effective rates and all the other hey parameters of a mortaage. twill also pro- duce colour graphical repre- sentations of your mortgage showing how much vou are Paving in interest and princi pal cach month. The site also provides finks to an interesting group of other real estate-related sites. One that might prove useful to anvone who has legal con- cer bout a prop action is the Canac Estate Law Centre. provides plain-langua, Mation on legal issues involved with the buying and selling of property including advice on sticky issues such as casements and covenants, joint and common tenancies abd wate One of the 1 BOSE CONT: mereial real estate sites on the Netcan be found at ewww jurock.coms>, This site provides an array of intor mation including real estate News and tips, properties for sale and rent, a mortgage cal- culator and curreney conv er and links to other real estate sites. Thabo teatures a real estate chat ling called Real Estate Falks where vou can ask aay kind of question abour real estate and usually geta helpful answer. People also use the chat line, which is tree, for advertising homes for sale, particularly vacation and other out-of-town prop- erties, Another site that provides answers to real estate ques- tions can be found at ewwwaskapro.com>. [Here they have industry experts who will amwer vour ques tions on such subjects as mortgages, home appraisals, inspections, Hsurange and other issees associated with buving and selling real estate. nthe rapid growth and evolution of the Internet Pim sure there will be fodder for another colume on this same subject in the near future. Hf vou know of any other sites that sou think would be of inte’ Teast tO other readers, please let me know and Pu be happy to add them te my list. — Trent Appelbe isan vconomist and a real estate anent with Sutton Group - West Coast Realty. He cau be reached at 838-7822 or by ¢- mail via his Web site at