It's happened. You've spent months looking for your perfect home in Delta, Surrey, White Rock, or Abbotsford! Your offer was accepted, you had a home inspection (by Walkabout Inspections, I hope!) and now you have the keys to your home. All of the papers have been signed and sent off to the appropriate places, and you're standing in your living room.
Now what?
There's a lot to consider when you're establishing your budget for renovation.
First of all, you have to consider the tools that you n...
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Have you ever dreamed of buying an old, unloved house with lots of character, and good bones and turning it into a beautiful, treasured home? Are you having trouble finding it?
These are interesting times indeed for the real estate industry in Surrey, Langley, White Rock... well, anywhere in the Greater Vancouver area. The smaller unique homes are slowly disappearing, bulldozed and resurrected into much larger multi family homes. It's a challenge, for sure, finding a neighbourhood that isn't li...
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Over the years, I've inspected over 7,000 homes in the Lower Mainland - from White Rock with its beautiful views and California style homes to West Vancouver's hilltop concrete and glass. I've seen 100 year old homes in Ladner which don't even have a solid concrete foundation to ranchers in Surrey which may not have the ensuite and designer kitchen, but definitely qualify for the term "Good Bones"
"Good bones" might be one of the most overused phrases in real estate. Prospective home buyers and ...
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A few years ago, Surrey, and some other municipalities inplemented the possibility of having a water meter vs just an annual fee for water. For myself, a water meter has saved thousands of dollars, but if you have a large home, or suites, and multiple people living there, it might be worth it to go with the general tax levy. Simple things like not letting the faucet run while you brush your teeth can save nearly two gallons of water per minute. Plus, it can save you a tremendous amount on your...
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Pest Control
It's summer as of today. And with the warmer weather, it's not unusual to find trails of ants in your Surrey garden, fruit flies in your Burnaby kitchen, mosquitos incubating in your backyard pond, or spiders in your Sunshine Coast Cabin.
I speak from some experience. We've had all of those things happen to us.
in the case of our cabin, my wife got bitten by either a Hobo or Brown Recluse spider. It caused a very nasty bite which took more than a few weeks to heal with some top-shelf antibiotic...
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Real Estate
Home Inspection
QUESTION: Our home inspection is scheduled for next week in Langley. This is the first time we’ve bought a home, and we’re not sure what to do and what not to do. Some people say it’s not important for us to attend the inspection, that we should just wait for the report. But we’re uncomfortable with that advice. There are so many things we want to ask the inspector. What do you recommend? Marie
ANSWER: Many homeowners, purchasing a home in Surrey, Langley, White Rock or anywhere in th...
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Vancouver
from Wikipedia (edited) The Vancouver Special is a term used to refer to houses built in the years 1965-1985, with their particular architecture style, and unique to Vancouver and its suburbs.
There are houses in the Lower Mainland dating back to the late 1940s that look almost identical to the Vancouver Special-so the housing design ideas predate the 1960s mass popularization and mass production of this kind of housing.
These homes are characterized by their typical V"box-like" structure, l...
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