Tips for Selling Your House During the Winter

Winter isn’t the ideal time to sell a house but sometimes you have no choice. There are actually some advantages to selling a house during the winter – less competition for one. There’s also less of a buying and selling frenzy so you have more time to consider offers....

Home Staging Made Simple

Home staging is all the rage these days and a lot of people think that they have to hire a professional home stager in order to sell their home as quickly, and for the best price as possible. Although hiring a pro is always a good thing, there are a lot of things that...

Tips for First Time Home Buyers

Buying your first house can be a daunting task. There are lots of things that you have to think about that you never had to worry about when you were a renter. There are a lot of steps, and so many decisions to make. There can also be surprises like extra costs that...

Flood Recovery

Flooding is the most common natural disaster that affects Canadian homes and businesses and can happen almost anywhere. A heavy rain, a broken water main, or a cracked toilet tank can all cause a home or business to flood. In light of the flooding that devastated...

The MLS: Active and Conditionally Sold Designations

It used to be that when your home went conditionally sold you had to mark the listing as “P” on the MLS system which meant there is a contract on the home and the home is pending or conditionally sold..  Some sellers felt that this was unfair and that they...