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Summer Honey-Do List: Home Projects to Keep Your Home Looking Great.

With every season comes new projects for a homeowner. Whether it’s regular maintenance or renovations to keep your home from looking dated, it all works towards the same goal of maintaining your investment. Here are some tasks for you to add to your honey-do list this summer, to ensure your home shines bright during these …

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6 Things To Do Before Settling Into Your New Home

Buyers, Checklists, Homeowner tips / bradlca

Buying a home is an exciting time for both new home buyers and experienced buyers alike. It is a fresh start, with new walls to build your life within. However, once the move begins, things can feel stressful, frantic, and exhausting, especially if there’s extra work to be done while boxes are being piled one …

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Closing the Cottage for the Winter

Checklists, Home Maintenance, Homeowner tips, Income properties, Lifestyle / bradlca

It is always a sad day when you are sitting at the cottage, and the leaves start to turn, and you realize that the nights are getting cooler. We usually delay the decision to close up the cottage to the last minute. Given our uncertain weather events these days, it is best not to wait. Frozen pipes can cause a great deal of damage.

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Getting Ready for a Move

Checklists / Sarah Lachance

As the end of April approaches, many people in Ottawa are preparing to move. Whether you bought or sold in the busy spring market, it’s time to start packing! Packing is often everyone’s least favourite task in the moving process but just remember, there is a light at the end of the tunnel; before you

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Home Inspections: What You Need To Know

Buyers, Checklists / Sarah Lachance

A home is quite likely one of the biggest purchases of your life and you want to make sure that you know what you are buying. While the home may have looked perfect to you, there may be underlying issues that are only visible to a trained eye. For this reason, it is important that

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Home Renovations with a Great Return on Investment

Checklists, Homeowner tips, Ottawa real estate, Sellers / Sarah Lachance

Home Renovations with a Great Return on Investment We’ve all been there: “I love our kitchen, but what if we added an island?” or “our en suite bathroom is great, but it’s missing a little colour” or even “our basement is so spacious, I wonder what it would look like finished”. Sound familiar? If you

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Fall Furnace Tune-Up

Checklists, Home Maintenance, Homeowner tips / Sarah Lachance

Fall Furnace Tune-Up As much as we may hate to admit it, fall is here. As the days get shorter and the air gets colder, the time of year when we switch from cooling our homes to heating them is upon us. However, before you switch your furnace on and start getting your winter blankets

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Readying Your Family for an Emergency

Checklists, Lifestyle, Motivational Moment / Sarah Lachance

Readying Your Family for an Emergency September 21st, 2018 is a day our community won’t soon forget. The stories we’ve heard from those affected by the tornadoes that touched down in the City of Ottawa-Gatineau were nothing short from terrifying; the photos we’ve seen from the storm’s aftermath have been undeniably bone-chilling. It has been

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Buying a Home: What The Extras Cost

Buyers, Checklists, Homeowner tips, Ottawa real estate / curiousprojects

Contracts and rentals to consider in home ownership When it comes to buying a home, there are always additional fees to be considering when you make an offer. Typically, a first-time home buyer needs to be aware of the costs associated with buying a home – legal fees, mortgage rates, home insurance, closing costs, property

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Buying a Home: What The Extras Cost

Buyers, Checklists, Homeowner tips, Ottawa real estate / Sarah Lachance

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