Hello! My name is Gilles Ménard. I am the creator, owner and broker of Ziglu. I became a REALTOR^® in 2000. I started my real estate career with Royal LePage. I quickly realized that the traditional model of real estate wasn’t for me. I loved helping people sell and buy their homes, but the high costs of real estate services bothered me quite a bit. I was never comfortable charging 5% commission to list a property. I could never justify being paid that much. Yet, that was the norm and consumers did not have a choice. I was at a crossroad. Do I simply leave the industry or do I try to change the industry. I’ve always been a bit of a non-conformist and so the latter option was a challenge I was ready to take on. I decided to take the real estate broker’s course, which gave me the education and knowledge to start my own brokerage. I did lots of research to build a business model that would offer similar services, but at much lower fees. I had to dance around the many regulations and guidelines that governs the industry, but after many revisions, modifications and tweaks, the Ziglu model was created. Ziglu was officially launched in 2007.