Tag: tips

For Home Sellers

When selling your home, it's normal to have questions about how much the whole process is going to cost. Here's what you need to know.

For Home Buyers

Here in Toronto, there was a time when it made sense to sell your house before you bought a new one. There was even a time when you wouldn’t even begin looking at homes ...

For Home Buyers

Downsizing is something that a lot of people consider later in life. When you’re younger and have a family at home, buying a large home with a backyard makes sense, but later on, for ...

For Home Buyers

I recently finished underpinning my basement, which was a huge project. If you’ve ever thought about doing it, I can tell you from experience that there’s a lot to know. We got our ...

For Home Buyers

I recently finished underpinning my basement, and for those of you that don’t know what that means, it involves digging down and lowering our basement so that we could make what was an unusable ...

For Home Buyers

If you’re buying your first home, there’s a lot to think about, and to make the process of buying your first home as successful as possible for you, there are a lot of ...

For Home Sellers

If you’re thinking about selling your home, and you’ve heard that it’s better to wait for the Spring market, you might want to reconsider. The fact is, there are quite a few ...

Just For Fun

In the spirit of Halloween, I wanted to know about spirits and their connection to our homes. Have you ever thought there might be spirits living in your home? How can you tell? To answer ...

For Home Sellers

If you're selling your home, and you get presented with a bully offer, should you accept it? Maybe, maybe not. Here's what you should know.

For Home Buyers

So you’re thinking about buying a hot tub? Lucky you. Hot tubs are awesome; and they’re a fantastic way to relax at the end of a long day. But they aren’t exactly ...

For Home Owners

A coach house is a small dwelling that exists near a larger house. Think you might want to build one? Here's what you need to know.

For Home Buyers

When you’re purchasing a property or refinancing your current home with today’s low interest rate, it’s easy to only think about the monthly payment. Does that sound familiar to you? If so, ...

For Home Buyers

You see it, you it, you want it. I totally get that, but paying over the market value for a house in Toronto can be a really bad decision that has big implications to you ...

For Home Buyers

A phantom bid is a deceptive, ugly practice that a few real estate agents do to manufacture higher sales prices. Here's how it works:

For Home Buyers

In Toronto, bidding wars are the norm. It’s not uncommon for a house to have 5 or more people all competing for the same house. That means that people often walk away on the losing ...