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Upgrades to Negotiate with a Builder when buying a New Home in Today's Market

Posted by on March 19, 2009 at 7:59 am
Negotiate the Best Deal from Your Builder when Buying a New Home (photo by Jason Floyd)

Negotiate the Best Deal from Your Builder when Buying a New Home (photo by Jason Floyd)

Last week Dave wrote about our friends that just purchased a new house in Toronto. They did a fantastic job of negotiating the best price AND a ton of upgrades into their deal. Dave didn’t take the credit for the great deal they made, but he did spend hours on the phone coaching and prepping them for the negotiation so I think he could safely take some of the credit!

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Phantom Rent: Pitfalls of Buying Pre-construction Condos

Posted by on November 27, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Toy Factory Lofts - Where we bought 2 units pre-construction

Toy Factory Lofts – Where we bought 2 units pre-construction

Thinking of buying a pre-construction condo? As we enter the 11th month of paying “rent” to the developer on two units we own in the Toy Factory Lofts in Toronto’s trendy King West district, I want to tell you not to. We’re paying rent, yet we own the two units. Or wait, maybe we don’t!?

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Parade of New Homes… Continued

Posted by on October 22, 2008 at 8:40 pm

In our last post, I shared some pictures of our visit to Intracorp’s Glenmore at Morgan Heights townhome development. In this post, I want to share with you pictures from my favourite home…and a few other random photos from the day.

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Parade of New Homes in Greater Vancouver

Posted by on October 19, 2008 at 9:29 am

I’m not sure what you spent your Saturday doing, but I am pretty sure you didn’t do what we did!

We started the day off with a nice run around Rice Lake in North Vancouver, then we got ourselves cleaned up, hit Starbucks and drove out to Surrey to meet with Cindy Faulkner of Meridian Coastal Mortgages. We spent a few hours with her discussing:

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