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selling a home: Ottawa Real Estate - Getting ready to sell. - 10/06/11 12:00 PM
After thinking and thinking and thinking you have decided to move on and sell your home. Here are a few things you need to do before calling your real estate agent.
1. Call your mortgage broker/bank and find out what it will cost to pay off your mortgage or to port it.
2. Make copies of the following documents: Last tax bill, hydro bills for last 3 months, heating costs for last three months, copy of your land survey and anything else that you have on hand i.e. list of recent upgrades, purchase of new appliances, etc.
3. Start decluttering and packing.
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selling a home: Ottawa Real - Selling a property - 09/10/11 12:45 PM
Properties sell for a couple of reasons:
1. Location
2. Condition
3. Price
LOCATION: Location is something you, the Seller can't change but when purchasing a property have a look around the prospective home. Is it on a bus route, is there a major busy streeet behind you, are there hydro towers near you, are the homes next to you well maintained?
CONDITION: This is something that you, the Seller, can control. Spruce it up, make it shine, make it appealing. The prettier it is the more money it will bring.
Price: This is also something that you, … (0 comments)
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selling a home: Ottawa Real Estate - 08/26/11 11:00 AM
What is a Sellers Property Information Statement (SPIS)? Basically, its a document that Sellers complete prior to listing their homes declaring their knowledge of the property. Some of the questions are very basic i.e. name, address, how long you've lived there, etc.
An SPIS is an excellent tool to advise the buyers of a variety of issues i.e. roof, electrical, plumbing, foundation, water infiltration, etc. Other points of interest would be: encroachments, whether a survey is available, restrictive covenants, environmental issues. Should the property be located in the country then there would be such issues as spectic systems, wells, etc.
Its very important … (0 comments)
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selling a home: Ottawa Real Estate - Surveys - 01/31/11 07:39 PM
When preparing an offer and requesting in Schedule "A" for a an existing survey showing all the structures, garages, additions and easements. All paties (Seller and Buyer) agreed that an existing survey showing structures, etc. would be provided within 48 hours of acceptance of the Agreement of Purchase of Sale.
What the Seller/Listing Agent provided was an outdated survey with only the house structure showing - no garage, no addition, no easements. The Seller does not want to provide the Buyer with the agreed upon survey because he feels that the Title Insurance would cover it. That is not the point, the … (0 comments)
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selling a home: OTTAWA REAL ESTATE - LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION - 10/09/10 08:03 PM
DEAR BUYERS
Please, please, please - when looking for a home, DO NOT purchase a home just based on the house. Look around the neighborhood, drive by the property at diffrent times of the day to see what's happening on the street. Park in front of the house - look at it from different angles. What's next to the house, what's behind the house, is there a bus stop right in front of the house - those are all the things you should be looking at before making the decision.
More often than not people do not look around and when … (0 comments)
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selling a home: Ottawa Real Estate - Selling your Home - 09/08/10 06:41 PM
WHAT SELLS A HOME?
There are several factors involved but the major ones are: Location, condition, price. Then, marketing comes into play. Before we discuss the selling factors, I would like you to think about when you are purchasing a property. DO NOT just purchase the house, look at the neighborhood, what surrounds the property. Are the immediate neighbors hoarders, car collectors? What's behind, beside and in front of the house - because all of these things will be the <strong>location</strong> factor when you are selling.
The condition of your home is the second important factor. Has it been updated recently, … (1 comments)
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selling a home: Ottawa Real Estate - 03/04/10 11:38 AM
What an exciting time of the year for Home Sellers and Buyers. Most real estate agents have attended their conferences and are ready to go with new knowledge. While attending the Keller Williams Annual Family Reunion, I met some fantastic people, learned tonnes of information and spoke with some mega agents from across North America.
In Ottawa, real estate is going strong, the inventory is still quite low but improving daily. As reported by the Ottawa Real Estate Board "Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 713 residential properties in January through the Board's Multiple Listing Service® system compared with … (0 comments)
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selling a home: Ottawa Real Estate Tip for Sellers - 02/01/10 02:56 PM
I know you love your home and its time to move - BUT if you are emotionally attached to your home - you will have a very hard time trying to sell it. What you must accept is that your home is a container in which you and your family live, create memories, etc. When you decide that this container no longer suit your needs - you must find another one.There are many reasons to move i.e. downsizing, upsizing, transfer, divorce, etc. If you can accept that the home is a commodity it will be much easier for you. Here's a … (0 comments)
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selling a home: SELLING YOUR HOME - Ottawa - 10/21/09 09:56 AM
Selling your home. When I'm showing houses to potential Buyers - they always, always ask the same question - WHY ARE THEY SELLING?
My standard answer is "because they are moving on". But usually its something else, they purchased a new home; downsizing; moving to another city or out of the country; divorce, death, illness. Its not important why people are selling, the important thing is whether the house meets your wants and needs. If it does, ask your real estate agent to prepare comparables for you and make an offer.
The other question I have from Buyers - I like it … (0 comments)
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selling a home: SELLING YOUR HOME - 09/30/09 02:04 PM
SELLING YOUR HOME - FULL SERVICE / NO COMMISSION MEANS???????
How can you possibly get full service and pay no commission? Oh yes, that might mean - we will give you the tools and you do the work i.e. book the appointments, prepare the paperwork, pre-screen potential buyers, do the negotiations and attend to all the closing details. It might not be brain surgery but if you don't have the time or knowledge that a real estate agent has - will you be really getting top dollar for your home?
TO a real estate agent - Full Service means:
- Ensuring that your house is listed … (0 comments)
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selling a home: Home Selling in Ottawa - 09/29/09 09:50 AM
Home Selling in Ottawa
There are many situations in which a decision is made to sell a house:
1. You purchased a nice starter home - maybe a condo - a now you decide you want to upgrade. What to do? Call a couple of good real estate agents (interview 3), select the one you feel will work with you and not have his/her own agenda.
2. Your purchased a good-sized home in one of the subdivisions and now decide that you would prefer something with a little more land. What to do? Drive around, do some homework and decide on … (0 comments)
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selling a home: Home Staging by a Professional - 09/23/09 07:47 AM
Home Staging is an art - not something that everyone can do well. Let me explain. Last night I did a listing presentation and the sellers were wondering why their home did not sell when previously listed. There were several factors involved: (1) overpriced (2) no staging appeal and (3) errors on the feature sheet. Staging a home makes it more appealing to the buyers looking for a home in a certain area within a certain budget. Instead of hiring a professional home stager, the previous agent asked the sellers to declutter and they did, but to the point of where … (2 comments)
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