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Growing Pains

Posted on Mar 04, 2022


If moving up was easy, everyone would be doing it.
Deciding to make the move into the ideal home for your family is a decision you have made and backpedaled from and made again many times now.
The fact is, you are short on time, short on information, and you’re afraid of making the wrong decision.
Selling your home and buying a new one requires a huge...

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Leverage

Posted on Feb 17, 2022

Remember how you threw up in your mouth a little bit when you bought your house in 2019?

Whether you bought in 2019, 1999, or even 9 months ago... 

It's time to talk about the boatload of equity you're sitting on right now.

How are you leveraging it? Here are 9 ideas I just came up with:

  1. Move up to a larger home
  2. Buy land
  3. Buy an investment property
  4. Buy a sh...

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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Posted on Jan 31, 2022



Your down payment is losing value sitting in your bank account, and house prices aren't coming down.  
This week I showed the same 2 homes to 2 different buyers. In this super low inventory market, I sometimes show the same house 3 times.

The 2 houses in question both need a ton of work. Some of it structural.

My buyers aren't going for it. But others a...

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CMHC Mandate

Posted on Jan 26, 2022


Dear CMHC. Let's revisit your mandate, shall we?

To: “promote housing affordability and choice, to facilitate access to, and competition and efficiency in the provision of, housing finance, to protect the availability of adequate funding for housing at low cost, and generally contribute to the well-being of the housing sector in the national economy...

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Real estate should not be be adversarial. 

Posted on Jan 07, 2022



The goal: to come out the other side feeling like we all got what we needed, without giving up more than we wanted. 

Once a deal is firm, it’s even more important that we’re all rowing in the same direction.

If you thought agents just sat back and sighed with relief once conditions are met, think again. 

Stuff comes up.
  • Mom and Dad can’t house us in thei...

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