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How important is pricing the house to selling the home?
For home sellers and realtors alike, the most important thing about selling a house is the pricing. It’s not location. It’s not how much decluttering and painting has to be done to get it ready to...
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Moving to Kitchener Waterloo. What kind of house do I want?
Moving to Kitchener Waterloo was one of the best decisions I made in my life (so far). What’s funny though it wasn’t my decision, we accepted a transfer here with my spouse’s job. We’d never been to...
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How to sell your house without an agent, privately, commission free, or not
Would you like to sell your home without an agent? Would you like to sell your house privately and commission free? It’s not rocket science. Anyone can sell a house without paying the high commissions...
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In a seller’s market what is the best strategy for selling a home?
It is a seller’s market. But not every house will sell. What is the best strategy for home sellers selling their home in a seller’s market? So far this year, even on the coldest days of January and...
View ArticleRambling around Waterloo Region
I’m vlogging again. Rambling around Waterloo Region. This time I’m rambling about the percentages of houses that don’t sell. It’s higher and more misleading than you think. I also talk about what I...
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November Newsletter – Can you sell your home using a smart phone app?
It was a very busy September and October. House and condo prices are up and so were the number of units sold. It is still very much a seller’s market. Everything, it seems that gets listed for sale, is...
View Article14 myths of home selling and home buying
There is a certain amount of truthiness in real estate. There are myths about home selling and about home buying. There are truths, half-truths and there are falsehoods. Some falsehoods may have been...
View ArticleReal estate consulting – a future not yet here
Consulting is what professionals do. This blog post will argue that real estate consulting is how real estate sales will evolve. It is coming, but it in not here yet. It has happened five times this...
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How to buy an entry level house for less than $250,000
About a month ago, I met with a young couple who had recently moved to Kitchener Waterloo. By recently, I mean within the past two years. I met with them over coffee, as I like to do with potential...
View ArticleWhy do home sellers overestimate the price of their homes?
Finding the right price for offering the home for sale is the most important thing. Why do so many homeowners (and Realtors) get it wrong? 1: Listing Presentations I get invited to a lot of listing...
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Life is short. Buy a house
Because one of my favourite 365 Rules about Real Estate is that you cannot buy a house on the internet, I have been following this Ashley Madison story with great interest. Let me explain. Of course...
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11 reasons your home did not sell yet
I recently got a call from a young couple whose house had been on the market for 60 days without selling. They wanted me to tell them why their house did not sell. They liked their agent but felt that...
View ArticleGood to great neighbourhoods for investor/buyers
What Kitchener Waterloo neighbourhoods are good to live and invest in? I wrote earlier that there are three kinds of real estate investors: 1) Flippers 2) Improvers and 3) Key-turners But there is also...
View ArticleWhy do home sellers overestimate the price of their homes?
Finding the right price for offering the home for sale is the most important thing. Why do so many homeowners (and Realtors) get it wrong? 1: Listing Presentations I get invited to a lot of listing...
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Life is short. Buy a house
Because one of my favourite 365 Rules about Real Estate is that you cannot buy a house on the internet, I have been following this Ashley Madison story with great interest. Let me explain. Of course...
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11 reasons your home did not sell yet
I recently got a call from a young couple whose house had been on the market for 60 days without selling. They wanted me to tell them why their house did not sell. They liked their agent but felt that...
View ArticleGood to great neighbourhoods for investor/buyers
What Kitchener Waterloo neighbourhoods are good to live and invest in? I wrote earlier that there are three kinds of real estate investors: 1) Flippers 2) Improvers and 3) Key-turners But there is also...
View ArticleWhat is the Principal Residence Exemption?
When it comes time to sell the family home, few homeowners give any thought to the possibility of having to pay taxes on the realized profit resulting from the sale. In Canada, you are not required to...
View ArticleWhat happens if the buyer cannot close?
Closing the loop The market suddenly changed. And now some sellers can’t sell. Some buyers can’t close. When I say ‘suddenly’ I mean virtually overnight. No one saw this coming and now there are some...
View ArticleAdvice for buying a home. Don’t believe it.
Half the advice I receive is bad (I just know know which half) Times change. How we do things change. What was true thirty years ago or even ten years ago is not always going to be true today. I’m well...
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