We just put the FOR RENT sign up and posted the ads online … it’s official … our character home renovation project is darn near complete.
We have some work to do in the yard and we have to put numbers on the house still – but otherwise we are done! And we are really proud of how it turned out.
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We have a vacancy in one of our properties that is managed by a property manager.
It’s located in Kelowna. We normally try to get out to see our properties as soon as a vacancy comes up but Kelowna is not a day trip from Vancouver Island where we lived. So, we planned a trip right after the Investor Forum to check everything out. Since I knew we were going there in a week or so, I didn’t check up on the ads for the property when they got posted at the start of November.
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Happy Monday!!
Last week we sent out the following email to our Rev N You Newsletter readers … I normally don’t repost the messages we share to our newsletter subscribers but we had such a big response to this one that I wanted to share again!
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We recently sold our townhome in Burnaby. This townhome was in a complex of 38 other townhomes. Each unit was pretty much the same – with a few minor variations.
We managed to sell ours for $7,000 more than the highest sale ever in the complex AND about $30,000 higher than average. Plus the next property to sell in our complex, just a few weeks later, sold for $17,000 less than ours.
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April’s been a busy month for us as we ended up with two new properties to fill. Our goal is to buy one property a month, and as much as we try to stick to that schedule, sometimes we’ll end up with a month like February where we don’t close on anything and then a month like April where we get two!
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