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14 September 2011

Making Upgrades to Sell your Home? Here are 3 to Avoid

If you’re trying to sell your home and are walking around with clipboard in hand, making a list of all the upgrades you want to make in order to help sell – stop! While making certain upgrades and repairs will help increase the value of your home, others will do the opposite and leave your home sitting on the market for months. Here are three of the most common mistakes homeowners make when upgrading their homes, and why you should avoid them.

11 September 2011

Make your Kitchen Look Pricey, for Cheap

It’s no secret that remodeling your kitchen will tack on lots of bucks to the resale value of your home, but you also don’t want to go broke in the process. Real estate experts agree that you shouldn’t go over $70,000 when remodeling your kitchen, and many homeowners can’t even afford to go that high. But that doesn’t mean that you’re destined to live in (and eventually try to sell) an outdated kitchen. You just have to know how to make renovations that will give your kitchen that polished look, but that can also be done for cheap.

4 September 2011

Home Staging, the Feng Shui Way

You’ve probably heard of home staging, the process of making your home picture-perfect before you show it to potential home buyers. And you’ve probably heard of Feng Shui, a concept that originated in China of decorating your home in a specific way and placing furniture in specific places, in order to enhance the harmony in your home. Put the two ideas together and you’ll soon be moving out of that home you’ve been trying to sell, and getting into that one that you’ve had your eye on.

27 August 2011

Canadians are a Restless Bunch

You’d think that finding the home of your dreams, getting yourself all settled in, and finding a way to comfortably pay your mortgage every month would be enough for most people. But we Canadians aren’t happy with that. We want bigger, better, more, more, more! At least, that’s what a survey recently done by TD Canada Trust has found out.

26 May 2010

Selling a Home Using Vendor Financing

Vendor Financing – Being Creative Can Help Close a Home Sale. When one thinks of buying a home, we tend to think of going to a bank or mortgage broker to arrange for financing. But there are some creative ways to sell a home.