What do your friends think of your business? It's worth finding out... - 01/28/11 09:00 AM
A couple of nights ago, I was out for dinner with my girlfriends, and though the evening felt like a group hug for my soul, I also learned some important lessons about my business.
1. "I was afraid to ask you to help me find a home because I know you're so busy and I didn't want to burden you."
What?!?  Oh for the love of Pete.  Have I really created the impression that I'm too busy to help out a friend who needs to find a new home?  Yikes, I guess I have.  First of all, I'm not too busy to help anyone.  … (44 comments)

Thankful Thursday - January 2011 - My Ya-Yas - 01/27/11 04:18 PM
I have a love/hate relationship with January.  I love the feeling of renewal and fresh beginnings that comes with the first month of the year.  But by the last week of this torturous, outrageously long, cold, dark, icy month, I'VE HAD IT!
And so it was that last night I dragged my sorry, grumpy self out of the house for dinner with some of my girlfriends at a local restaurant, Steak et Frites, here in Kirkland, Quebec.  This is a group of women I lovingly call my Ya-Yas, so named after the book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells.  (If you haven't read it and you're … (23 comments)

All the home staging in the world won't sell an over-priced home. - 01/25/11 02:49 PM
"All the home staging in the world won't sell an over-priced home."  That's what Nairn Friemann, a great New York home stager, told us during my first day of home staging training back in 2007. 
I was reminded of those words today as I went out to preview homes for sale here in Montreal's West Island and saw a beautiful house that's just come on the market. 
The home is gorgeous: not too country and not too modern, well-renovated kitchen, nice lot, no loud colours to turn off buyers, no disproportionately large furniture eating up entire rooms, stylish accessories, lovely art and … (13 comments)

Do numbers matter? In an address? - 01/05/11 04:44 PM
Do numbers matter?  I know some do, like the asking price of comparable properties, the number of bedrooms in a home, the prime interest rate, the number of times you have to try on jeans to find one pair that actually freakin' fits.     
I'm sorry. Did I say that out loud? [Sigh.]  Moving on...
What about the numbers in an address?
There's a home for sale in my market with an address of 666 Spooky Lane (close enough).
Do you think it's throwing off some buyers?  I do.  So do my husband and my clients.
What's your take on it? 
 
… (15 comments)

Just another gratuitous inspection-horrors post? - 01/05/11 09:31 AM
Beauty and the beast?  Charles Buell shows a lovely vessel-type sink that he's seen in some of his work as a home inspector extraordinaire and points out one design flaw that may not be so obvious: there is no overflow (a hole at the back or front of the sink) to allow excess water to drain when the sink starts to fill too high.  Something to keep in mind, particularly if you have young ones in the house.
Here's another thing to keep in mind: In my experience, shallow vessel sinks can cause one heck of a mess when you're washing … (8 comments)

 
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Montreal West Island, QC

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