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Enjoy this large 2010 Sqft home with 3 bedrooms & den. Floors, bedroom/bathroom doors, trim, paint, low-e windows, new hot water tank are some of the upgrades done here. The family room boasts wrap around windows with sliders to the 600 Sqft deck. Private fenced backyard with fruit trees, Hot Tub and gazebo to laze your ...
To every mortgage comes an end … either because you’ve made all your regular payments or because you have the opportunity to pay it off earlier. Oh happy days!
Is it time to reduce or cancel your mortgage loan? Bring out the calculator to do it smartly.
Since most people take out a mortgage loan when they purchase a home, there’s no harm in looking at the other end of the mortgage procedure ...
Today’s question is: should you renovate your house before putting it on the market for sale or should you keep the price as low as possible?
It costs time, work, effort and money to do renovations. What's better, to do the work or reduce the price?
The most desirable answer to that question is “of course” to do both. You should renovate the home and make it sparklingly beautiful, while put ...
To escape the rat race is a dream of many. As wonderful as the Big City may be, there’s just no life better than that of a friendly small community that’s close to the Big City. We call it: the best of both worlds.
When you escape the big city and are on approach to the beautiful BC Sunshine Coast, this sight of Mt Elphinstone will be one of your first experiences.
The beautiful BC Sunshine ...
Are we rich or are we poor? It’s a relative question, isn’t it? People spend considerable time and effort to figure out wealth growth and decline. Here is how that relates to your home and family.
When you live in a castle, are you rich or poor? It all depends, doesn't it?
If you purchase a $200,000 home and you have a $100,000 mortgage loan against it, your net worth in that home is $100,0 ...
When you’re putting your house for sale, you’re opening the door to a variety of people that you possibly wouldn’t normally let into your house, let alone allow them to rummage through your personal stuff. To many people, the suggestion of having strangers in their home is a major source of stress.
Your privacy is out the window when strangers start to rummage through your home, once it's on ...
Spending a fortune to get your house “ready to be sold” isn’t always necessary. With a few simple tips, you can be almost-a-pro at preparing your house for the market, so it attracts the best possible offer in the shortest time.
There are professional home stagers, people who make a house look its absolute best. Here are some tips to do what home-stagers do.
Professionals call it “Home St ...
There is growing rumour that Canada’s top banks were behind the most recent mortgage changes. If the rumour is true, then this would be one of the most blatant examples of Capitalist abuse in recent history. Is it true?
What goes on behind the closed doors? There's this conspiracy theory that the largest banks have made a deal with the Government of Canada.
In a media sweep just weeks befor ...
Title insurance is a relatively new phenomenon that’s become more popular in British Columbia. Many people say we do not need it because of our Torrens registration system. Or what else does title insurance cover?
Used to be that the title searcher had to go through all those old documents to find the original title of a property. It's so much simpler now with the Torrens system.
The Tor ...
Whenever new laws, rules or restrictions are announced by the government, there is usually a cacophony of opinions, some good and some bad. It’s all part of living in a free society.
If you change the rules of the game, there are winners and losers. According to the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals, the recent rule changes produce no winners.
This time around (ref ...