Video Blog: Buying a home can be an emotional process 03-08-10
Buying a home can be an emotional process and sometimes our emotions get the better of us.
A couple of tips so you can avoid emotional mistakes while buying a home.
Interview with Joe Sammut Mortgage Broker: New Guidelines On Financing And Refinancing. 03-01-10
Clive McLean and Joe Sammut Video blog about how the Canadian Government has announced that as of April 2010 lending for mortgage financing and refinancing will become a lot tougher
Video Blog: Buying Pre-Construction 02-21-10
Buying Pre-Construction making sure you have your interests covered
Video Blog: Bubble you say! 02-14-10
Bubble you say! The numbers are really not all that different from past years, it just that last year
January 2009 was a real bad month
video Blog: Interviews
Interveiw with Mark Steven Interveiw with Aly Azam
If you are buying a home, then, before you decide on whether this home is your dream home, the following checklist will help you look at prospective homes with a critical eye. We suggest printing this page and putting it on a clipboard. When you find a home that really interests you, mark the features you see and note their general condition on this list.
There are many television shows today that focus on home staging. If you have not watched any, do yourself a favor and tune in. They all say the same thing: do not even consider putting your house on the market until you have taken a close look at its condition. Experienced sales people know that you only have one shot at impressing potential buyers, so take some time to prepare your home for showings. You will be rewarded with a faster sale and a higher offer.
A great many moves in our lives are to larger residences to accommodate growing families. Or, perhaps our financial development allows us to move up to a larger home with more features and amenities. There is no stress involved in trying to reduce our life’s stuff to fit into a smaller place. If anything, we just need to shop for some more furniture for the new larger place.
