Winter-proof Your Home

Winter season is almost here and it’s time to ensure that your home is ready for all that snow. Preparing your home for winter is a must. Otherwise, you will find the cold climate from outside crawling into your warm home.  Here are the best tips for you to winter-proof your home this winter.

Replace Damaged Roofing Components

Prevent heat from escaping from your house and stop snow from entering your home by repairing your roof and roofing. Take a look at your roof and the shingle. Climb up on your roof and check for cracked, broken, or missing shingles and depleting caulking around chimney and skylight. Replace the shingles and add new caulking. Also, seal the cracks and holes in your roof to winterize your roof.

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Home Inspection Tips

After a tedious search for a perfect home, you have finally found the one. The location is good, the price is perfect and the house is beautiful. The initial visit to the house is generally when the owner is aware of your visit and the house is ready to be presented. What you may not notice during such visits are the defects in the house. It is advisable to conduct a home inspection before you finalize the deal to avoid unseen losses. To avoid settling for less, here are a few home inspection tips:

Get Your Own Home Inspector

A thorough inspection of a home is not something a lay person can do. You need the expertise to understand and identify the underlying problems. To you, the house may seem perfectly alright but a home inspector would be able…

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Home Buyers in Your Area

You have decided to put up your house for sale and you need to attract buyers. Do you know how to find home buyers in your area? The real estate market can be a tricky place, especially for a person who is selling or buying a house for the first time. To get the best deal on your house, it is necessary to get as many offers as possible, to choose from. Consider these tips to attract more potential home buyers.

Spread the Word

In order to attract a high number of potential home buyers, you need to advertise on a large scale that your house is on sale. Advertising does not mean you have to spend a lot. You could opt for online advertising using social media. Basic pamphlets and a small print-ad would not cost you much, either. You should also put up…

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Avoid Mortgage Fraud in Calgary

Buying a house in Calgary is a stressful yet fulfilling task. The joy of finally acquiring the keys to the new house is incomparable. Add to that, the feeling of owning your very own house in Calgary is amazing. To experience this, you need to make right decisions and go through various procedures to own a new house. To make right decisions and have a stress-free home buying experience, follow these steps.

Decide a Budget

Before you even decide on buying a house, you need to figure out how much of it you can afford. For this, you need to analyze your savings and decide how much mortgage needs to be taken. A good way to expedite your home buying process would be to get your credit score checked and get it prequalified and preapproved for your…

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Have you ever considered renting out a room to a student or renovating your basement into a self-contained rental apartment? 

It’s a big decision. There are many pros and cons to consider. 

On the pro side, renting can provide you with additional income. An extra few hundred dollars a month can go a long way towards paying down your mortgage or splurging on an exotic summer vacation. 

Creating rentable living space in your home — for example, an “in-law suite” featuring a kitchenette and bathroom — may also increase your property’s market value. 

On the con side, you’ll have more costs and responsibilities as a landlord. For example, you might need to purchase extra insurance because basic home insurance policies typically do not cover rental…

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Hopefully, this will never happen to you. But, there are circumstances – a fire, for example – when you and your family would need to exit through a window.

It pays to be prepared for that eventuality.

Your first step is to determine which windows are safe to use as an exit. There should be at least one on each level.

The windows you select will need to provide enough space for a person to climb through (at least a 20 inch opening). Make sure everyone knows which windows are “safe exit” windows, and how to open them. Keep in mind that windows may have screens, so ensure everyone knows how to remove those as well.

For a second floor window, consider purchasing a portable escape ladder. These are compact and easily stowed in a closet or under a…

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The Calgary and area market is finishing the year on a stable note with prices up very slightly in the residential marketplace.  Condominiums are still selling but with new development at it's peak there is a significant amount of properties to look at.  Pricing in both residential and condominium markets is key.

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2017 is almost in the books and another year is upon us. The Edmonton Real Estate board has just released their November Sales Data and there is definitely valuable information in the there for anyone investing, getting in the market for the first time, or even sellers looking to sell their home. 

2017 Story Line. Prices Flat, minimal % up / down in certain property types depending on where you are in the city. ( Some outliers ) 

This is exactly why you need to be hyper-focused in an area and know the analysis of historical & current data. 

Largest increases in value across Edmonton:


CITY OF EDMONTON Single Family Homes $403,000 median 2017 price. Down from 2015 median price of $405,000


WEST EDMONTON: 9.6 % 2 year gain overall. ( good job if your holding…

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