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Deodorize Your Home With Coffee
It is not uncommon that we need to deal with odours when selling a home. Sometimes the smells come from smoke or pets, other times it is something rotting in a fridge, under a bed or simply stale...
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Have you heard of Zoocasa yet? You will
Rogers Communications is expanding into the real estate business. Well not exactly. They are registering as a real estate brokerage called Zoocasa but without a team of agents or an office or any of...
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Not All Video Tours Are Created Equal
When you look at a virtual tour online, what do you think? I’ve generally been disappointed by the traditional 3600 virtual tours which distort rooms and make them look long or, make it appear as if...
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Witness Signatures on Agreements of Purchase and Sale
These days, many offers are submitted to buyers and sellers at their homes via email and one of the common situations we run into is the lack of a witness being nearby to sign. In the past, it was...
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The Listing Photo of Your Home Shows What?!
The other day, I was looking through our MLS listings and came across a home for sale with SNOW in the picture. What??? It turns out, the property has been listed, with an agent from out of the area,...
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Sharing this bulletin with you seems like a good way to end the new year. I’ll be back soon with a year end review of the market and of course, some predictions for what lies ahead. Until then, Happy...
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Collingwood and Area, 2013 MLS® Real Estate Market Recap and Predictions for...
“How’s The Market?” That surely has to be the most common question real estate agents are asked. I think what people really want to know is, is it a good time to buy or sell or, what is their home...
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January 2014 Real Estate Market Recap For Collingwood, Blue Mountain and Area
With the deep freeze we experienced in January, it’s no surprise that sales figures for the month in the Collingwood area were down significantly over this time last year. There were 83 sales last...
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The Truth About Assigning a microFIT Solar Contract When Buying or Selling A...
We are seeing more and more homes with solar panels and many are tied to a 20 year contract under Ontario’s microFIT program which pays the homeowner for the solar power generated and fed back into the...
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Be Careful What You Say When Advertising Your Property
Guest Post by Real Estate Lawyer, Author and Speaker, Mark Weisleder One vendor’s claim the basement walls had been gutted to “the bare bones” landed him in small claims court. This basement has...
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Predictions for the 2015 Collingwood and Area Real Estate Market
I dusted off the crystal ball last week and have been busy calculating, comparing, charting and crunching since then to bring you my annual predictions for the year ahead in the local real estate...
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Some Surprising Facts about the Collingwood and Area, 2014 Real Estate Market...
“How’s The Market?” The market is very healthy with momentum going into 2015. In 2014, we once again broke previous sales records for the Southern Georgian Bay area including in particular, the six...
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When You Can Expect to Give or Get Possession of Your Property on Closing Day
What time do I have to be out of my home by on closing day? What time do I get the keys to my new home? These are simple questions without simple answers. The standard Ontario Real Estate Association...
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Is the Kitec Monster Lurking In Your Home? Are You Sure?
Move aside asbestos, UFFI and oil tanks. There is a new scary monster in town that is taking a starring role on the real estate stage this year: Kitec plumbing fittings. Sold between 1995 and 2007,...
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This Chart Shows Residential Sales in Collingwood and Area Since 1988
I found this pretty interesting. The chart shows the number of residential sales, by quarter since 1988 for the western district of the South Georgian Bay area which includes places like Collingwood,...
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Marg’s Real Estate Team is the Best!
Jessica Chris It is such a pleasure to come back from holidays and hear my clients tell me that my team, who looked after everything while I was away, were: “wonderful”, ”awesome”, “rock solid”,...
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Feedback from Showings: Is it important?
“Your dated, overpriced, house smells like a smoking dog defecated in the corner of the mouldy basement. Other than that, the buyers loved it!” It’s a natural, knee jerk reaction. Someone tells you...
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Over Priced Real Estate
Some days, home sellers love me and other days they don’t. With all the talk about our booming real estate market, lots of people think their homes are worth more than they really are and sometimes,...
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Top 10 Home Buying and Selling Mistakes
For most people, buying or selling a home is one of the most important and highest value purchases they will make, and potentially the most challenging. The Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) has...
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Predictions for the 2016 Collingwood and Area Real Estate Market
O.K., I did it. I mustered up my courage, held my breath and took a look back at what I said twelve months ago about my predictions for the 2015 real estate market. You can read that post here. Hooray!...
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