Stage Your House with Low Cost Upgrades
By Jennifer Lynn Walker We all know it: the better your place looks, the easier it is to sell. But many people don’t realize that upgrades don’t have to be major renovations. Here are some low-cost ideas that will give you a solid return on investment. Love the...
How Declaring Everything You Know About Your Property Protects You
Let's talk about the 'Declarations of the Seller of the Immovable'. This is a mandatory form that a Seller must fill out along with a brokerage contract in order to have their house listed on Centris.ca. This contract is seven pages long, full...
Where Does Your Money Go When You Sell Your House?
By Jennifer Lynn Walker When you decide to put your house up for sale, you can guarantee you’ll incur expenses before the sale. Here’s a list to help you plan. These might not all pertain to you, but you can bet at least some of them will: Home staging Your real...
Multiple Offer-Notification Of The Other Offer
By Jennifer Lynn Walker When is enough effort enough? If you are the selling broker dealing with a multiple offer situation, how much effort should you take to get a hold of the buying broker to notify them of the other offer? You would think it would be their top...
Preparing to Sell your Home- From a Feng Shui Perspective
What are the first steps to be taken when you want to sell your home? I recommend doing the following. Go outside and view the home as if it’s the first time you are visiting this house and ask yourself the following questions: Provided by Feng Shui Master, Tracey...
Having Clutter can cost you Financially
Taken from the book called, “Clear your clutter with Feng Shui” by Karen Kingston www.spaceclearing.com What does it actually cost you to keep your stuff? Let’s do the math shall we.List all the rooms that you have in your home on a piece of paper. Then go in each...
10 tips to resell your house
A LOT of Seller’s don’t put enough emphasis on fixing up their homes when they put their house on the market. Even homes that are renovated need to follow these steps. There is stiff real estate competition and every detail is important to help you sell your home...
Irregular Certification of Location
By Jennifer Lynn Walker Deals don’t always go as planned. In fact I would easily say that at least 50% of them have a glitch. This is the story of a sale where the fence was 44cm off, inside the property line. When selling a house or buying, there are two very...
Inclusions & Exclusions not Honoured
After signing at the notary, you enter your new home all excited. You walk around inside and you start noticing things missing that you knew were suppose to be part of the sale.Or maybe you notice that the vendors took the bathroom mirror. Isn’t that a fixed item? Or...
My condo garage – Can I sell it separately?
You would think because you just bought a condo with a garage that you could sell it separately. Not always the case. Even if it comes with its own separate cadastre number, doesn’t mean that it has its own title. Condos are separated into common and exclusive areas....