Monthly Archives: January 2012

Earthquake

Victoria Earthquakes: Are you REALLY insured?

  Take this little quiz and find out…..it may have you quakin’!  Your house is insured for $500,000 which would be its replacement value if it were completely destroyed.  You’ve agreed to pay a 10% deductible which is fairly standard. However, one day there’s a “sort of earthquake” which causes …
motorcycle

Don’t Buy a Motorcycle After Your Mortgage is Approved!

Or don’t die or get divorced or lose your job or have a fight with your co-signer or buy a car until your home purchase has completed!  These important events could encourage your mortgage lender to refuse financing on your new home, even after you’ve removed all your conditions. They …
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Thinking “INSIDE” the Box, for a Change…

…the packing box, that is. Well, not a packing box exactly but rather a shipping crate.  It’s been suggested that perhaps metal shipping containers could be converted to housing for the homeless.  Critics will say that’s inadequate and demeaning, but isn’t it better than sleeping in a doorway or on …
Oil Tank

Victoria Homeowner Strikes Oil in Backyard!

No, there were no royalties here, just a nuisance and a big expense! Until the early 60’s, the practice of the day was to place oil tanks underground so they’d be protected and unobtrusive.  Since oil was the major source of heat at that time, many homes of that era …
Chat

Would You Ask Your Dentist – “How’s the Real Estate Market?”

He/she would probably be happy to answer the question and so would your gardener and your neighbor and your boss and your lawyer and your banker……..and they’d all have a different answer! The only response has to be “Depends how you look at it”.  There’s no absolute reality here. The …
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Victoria Real Estate – Behind the Scenes

Real Estate: The transfer of an interest in land, the largest industry in the world, arguably the most talked about and perhaps the least understood.

We buy it, sell it, rent it, gift it, steal it, inherit it, develop it, discuss it, analyze it, even go to war over it; the complications are endlessly fascinating.

"Talking real estate" seems to be a favourite activity world-wide, whether it be over the back fence or in a corporate office or around the kitchen table. So...draw [...]