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2014 

Back with the popular series - Creative Home Designs. Today I will present a few pieces of carpeting art, taken to the extreme. Which one would you use for your living room?1. Where is my bacon? What a pitiful omission!!!! 2. Very convenient - rug and slippers all in one. Looks like one of the IK...
04/30/2014
Ethics and Realtors don't go well together. This was the comment on one of the real estate article in CBC News. Being a Realtor myself, I usually get hurt by such comments. Why do they think Realtors are dishonest, unethical and greedy? We are all different, just like there are great doctors and ...
04/29/2014
I am a firm believer that showing homes to potential home buyers in the presence of home owners is a total waste of time. Usually, the more home buyers like the house, the longer they would spend viewing it. My personal statistics shows that when a buyer hates the house - we are out of there in 5...
04/27/2014
This post is not about houses, or architecture, or wild imagination. This post is about dreams coming true, when you keep dreaming. And not just dreaming but building your dream, pebble by pebble, day by day. Even it takes most of your life to accomplish. Never give up and don't listen to those w...
04/27/2014
Toronto is a crazy, multicultural, fast-pacing city that never sleeps. And often you have to be aggressive to survive. But how often is too often? There are times when you really have to take your aggressiveness and stick it right between the driver's seat and that part of your body, right next t...
04/25/2014
You know, they say, once they build a Starbucks in the area - this area is doomed to prosper! Well, Starbucks in Long Branch opened its doors in fall 2013 and ever since housing market becomes crazier by the day. You till have a chance to move into this wonderful neighborhood, but will have to ac...
04/22/2014
Status Certificate Condition is one of the most commonly seen conditions on the Agreement of Purchase and Sale for Condominium. What is it and why is it important for the seller to preorder it and for the buyer to get to your solicitor for review before the purchase is finalized? The status certi...
04/16/2014
I believe Ukrainians make excellent investment advisers, as this is quite natural for them not to just watch their own money, but to watch everyone else's money. How do I know? Well, it only took me 36 years to figure it out.Now on a serious note, there 47 Condo Townhouses currently available for...
04/16/2014
I had a pleasure to be present for the multiple offers presentation last week at the seller's house. The beauty of the situation was that I really did not have to work but could just simply sit down and observe. Observe the presentations, the reactions of all the parties, emotions, nerves, fight ...
04/14/2014
I happened to do an offer presentation this week. Before preparing an offer, I checked a few listings from the building complex of interest and discovered that all of them had lockers included, except for the one we were trying to buy. Naturally, I called the listing agent and was told that she "...
04/11/2014
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