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Christine has been a member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada as a Residential Appraiser since 2003, and has been with Rivington Appraisers since 2011. She provides service on several types of residential properties, including single family dwelling, rural property, seasonal dwellings, vacant land, and multiple family dwellings up to 4 units. Appraisals are completed for estate, financing, matrimonial, and capital gain purposes. Christine has grown up in the Ottawa Valley, and services Kanata / Stittsville, West Carleton, Pakenham, Arnprior, Braeside, White Lake, and Calabogie. Her focus has always been to work in the area she is from, ensuring all appraisals have a professional opinion of the local market. In 2011, Christine earned her Canadian Residential Appraiser Designation (CRA).

In January 2018 Christine became a member of the Canadian Institute of Certified Executor Advisors, and earned her CEA designation. Christine is now certified to offer executors of an estate professional advise on their role and responsibilities as an executor.

Carl Rumanek is the founder and president of Rumanek & Company Ltd. In 1967 Carl became a Chartered Accountant and practiced for 16 years before becoming interested in the insolvency field. In 1983, he began providing insolvency services and became more and more aware of the personal and emotional toll of debt. He holds a BIA Insolvency Counsellor’s Qualification Certificate and is a licensed Trustee in Bankruptcy and Administrator of Proposals. Carl suspects that many of his clients suffer from what he calls “debt stress”. All aspects of their lives are affected: family, work, and social life. Prior to initial consultations, people feel desperate because they believe there is no hope. He urges anyone with financial problems to take advantage of his firm’s free initial consultation to stop the emotional stress before it becomes a physical/medical problem.Services are offered at various office locations: Toronto Downtown, Toronto Mid – Town, North York, (Head office), Scarborough, Etobicoke, Mississauga, Niagara Falls, Barrie and Creemore, Ontario.

We want to make a positive difference in our clients' lives and we strive to do just that every day. With over 27 years experience as a financial advisor, I have seen the outcomes of good and bad advice and how they affect lives. 

As a Certified Financial Planner, we take care of our clients' investment, tax, retirement, insurance and legacy needs. We also know that there is a lot more to people than just money and we act as their coach during life's transitions, which can be sad, happy or just difficult.