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The Difference Is? Calgary VS Edmonton
I always like to tease my Calgary counterparts. When I was on the Real Estate Council of Alberta as a council member, the pre-meeting banter would always include some sort of comment welcoming the Calgary members from their carbon monoxide filled commute. They would counter with a humourous comment about Edmonton and on and on it went. My [...]
What’s in a title?
So, you’re buying a condo and it comes with a parking stall, better yet two stalls. That’s fantastic, but are they actually going to be yours? Did you include the stalls in your offer?
There are two common types of parkings stalls: assigned and titled. Titled stalls are individually titled just like a house or condo, and if they are not [...]
Buyer Brokerage Agreements
A reader asked me to comment on our blog about an article on Garth Turner’s blog discussing Buyer Brokerage Agreements (or Buyer Representation Agreements as they are referred to in Ontario). While he hit some important points in his article, he obviously left a few out, or perhaps just doesn’t know the history behind it enough to have included them. In any [...]
A new way to research the home you’re thinking of buying
I had a mind blowing experience the other night. Seriously mind blowing. I was showing a home in the Westmount area – by any standards a decent and desireable mature area in Edmonton. While we were looking at and discussing the home, my client started listing off some very significant and specific information about the property.
Now, I have always [...]
More Improvements to Edmontonrealestate.pro
In our continuing effort to provide the best MLS® search experience in the Edmonton area we have just launched some new search functions on Edmontonrealestate.pro. The advanced search now allows you narrow your search down to much more specific results.
This first change you’ll notice is you can select more than one search criteria, so if you’re considering Edmonton and St. [...]
New home upgrades worth paying for, Part 6: Closets
This may be hard for some of our male readers to believe, but closets sell. A few years ago one of our clients (a guy) bought a home and renovated it to flip it. The workmanship was impecable. He built a mechanic’s dream garage in the backyard – it was huge, heated, insulated, had it’s own electrical pannel… the works. [...]
New Home Upgrades Worth Paying For, Part 5: Green Upgrades
The jury is still out on the value of many “green” upgrades. There is simply not enough data to definitely say which green upgrades offer the best return on your investment. As building codes and government regulations change, something that was considered a green upgrade a few years ago may be required today. For example, if you replace a furnace [...]
What is a holdback?
A Mixed Martial arts move.
A football play where the quarterback fakes a handoff.
What middle age men do with their stomachs when they enter a room.
A real estate term indicating money will be held back until certain items are completed.
If you guessed the answer is [...]
Paperwork Rant
Most of the problems I see related to potential agent misconduct, from outright fraud to simple mistakes, is almost always exacerbated by the client or injured party not having copies of the documents they signed. These agents know who they are and if I could boot them out of the industry I would. Sometimes it’s a matter of them [...]
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