I like a lot of aspects of working in real estate, but if you asked me to narrow it down to my favourites, I would have to say that there are two really great things about my job. The first is that I get to meet great people. People I
Looking at that post title, I realize it could come across as a threat. As if, any time you head off on a trip, you have to be concerned about coming home to find another family moving in and a big SOLD sign on your lawn. Fear not, the odds
First off, happy belated Canada Day! As the holiday fell on a Friday this year, I thought I wouldn’t do a post on Friday as normal. I know you probably sat by your computer all afternoon, into the early evening, waiting and wondering when Jeff will do his next post. I
It’s Oakville. I was going to do a big build up and tell you at the end of the post, but it’s Friday, it’s lovely out and if you came to my site, you deserve the immediate answer. Now that you have that little dopamine hit from getting immediate gratification,
When you see a property that sits on the market without selling, the obvious question is "Why?" Let's take a look at three properties that haven't sold and get into what is causing them to remain on the market.
In late May, 2016, MPAC started sending out their 2016 Property Assessment Notices. These lovely documents provide an assessed value for your property, based on a secret formula developed by MPAC scientists in a bunker in the wilds of Northern Ontario. That might be a bit of an exaggeration. Truth
Working day in and day out in real estate has its positives and negatives. Often these come as the flip side of the same experience. Here’s what I mean. I get to meet many new and interesting people as I help clients buy and sell properties and any phone call
I was having a conversation the other day with Drake, and he was quite surprised when I told him that forget about the six, the five is where it really is these days. Full disclosure, Drake is the nickname I have given one of Diane’s fish in her aquarium. Fuller
I’m going to admit right off the bat that I’ve been watching a lot of episodes of the TV show Mad Men lately. Whenever I watch a lot of a particular show or read a particular book series, it tends to influence how I view the world for a brief
There are no shortage of green topics these days. Whether it is marijuana legalization or the explosive growth of medical marijuana dispensaries in Ontario over the last year, we see lots of news stories about marijuana and the money in play. I recently rented out a commercial space to
When Diane and I sold our last house a few years ago, I was surprised to find that a lot of potential buyers spent the majority of their time in the basement. It was unfinished, had a pretty low ceiling and contained what appeared to the remnants of a lost
First off, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. Secondly, this isn’t the start of me providing you with really bad advice. I will not be following this up with comments about how car insurance is for suckers, or suggesting an all cheeseburger diet. (Mental note – drive to get cheeseburgers
As of today, Good Friday, March 25th, 2016, there are 4,848 places for sale in Toronto. That includes both freehold homes as well as condominiums. The latest population figures for Toronto proper (not the GTA, just Toronto) places it about 2.8 million residents. That means there is one place for
Given I spent an hour shovelling snow this morning and then took twice as long to get to my morning appointment, winter weather is definitely on my mind today. When I saw the latest market data for February, it gave me the idea to talk about how the weather outside
I’ve been in some bad homes. Condos with layouts that make me scratch my head, where the bathroom has an inexplicable diagonal jog behind the tub and living rooms are bisected by a pillar that makes placement of a couch or TV pretty much impossible. Houses where modern touches have been
