December 5th, 2022
The government is implimenting a new regulation on offers. The new ruling commences at the start of 2023. This impacts the 1st 3 days after a offer is accepted & allows a buyer to change thier mind on proceeding with their promise to purchase. Given that the present market is sluggish I fail to see what the point of this new regulation is. For realtors it simply loads yet another manditory fo ...
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December 16th, 2018
I was doing some year end financing & was alerted by the bank's finance advisor as to the impact of the new rules on lending. This advisor relayed stories on a few clients who had put in offers on properties & when it came time for them to complete were not approved for a mortgage. The end result was that these buyers walked away from their deposits. When I read Christos Gitersos' ( a Vancou ...
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August 29th, 2017
I love being up this fjord. So close to home yet you feel like you are in a different world. With the high temperatures it is the purfect place to be this week. The water temperature is perfect!!!. We headed up to Silver Falls to swim in the pool at the bottom of the falls & that was fun . We had the whole bay to ourselves. So beautiful up here
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June 7th, 2017
I recently was involved in a offer that I placed on a property. Fortunately I was not in multiple offers situation so I could take my time in getting all the financing details organized before the subjects came off. I was very surprised at the new lending criteria from the banks. What in the past....ie less than 6 months ago was normal is now much different & the banks have rached up their ap ...
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August 10th, 2016
I have a beautiful deck in my back yard that in the summer I spend many a morning sipping my coffee & waking up with the sound of the birds. After 15years my wood deck was needing restaining & a few boards replaced so I looked into composite decking as it was touted to be maintenance free. Welllll I thought no more painting lets get a new Trex deck. The price was very expensive but I decided ...
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September 2nd, 2015
I was sent this article on Vancouver's cost of living & found the graph on the rental prices very interesting. We are less than 1/2 the price than New York! From a limited perspective the rental prices here seemed very high but from this journalist's data guess not
Vancouver #119 most expensive city in the world to live
BY JILL SLATTERY
3:27 PM PDT, FRI AUGUST 28, 2015
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