Real estate is often the market of choice for many beginner investors. Real estate is a well established market that is accessible to anyone without requiring expert knowledge. As a result, the average homeowner prefers to invest in property first. However, the seeming ubiquity of real estate investments leaves the door wide open for making […]
5 Ways to Prepare for a Major Renovation
Have you ever considered ripping apart your whole house? Not a rage induced destruction path, but a planned out, on purpose ripping apart of your whole home. A renovation. The cost-conscious of us have probably wondered if it’s possible to continue to live in the middle of a construction zone, whether it’s because we don’t […]
In the UK, house prices have started to drop. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
When you hear that prices have started to drop in your area, you might grow nervous. If the cost of houses is dropping, then you may find yourself in trouble if you are planning to put your house on the market. On the other hand, some advantages exist, especially when you are the buyer. Easier […]
Houses are 353% More Affordable in Halifax than Vancouver
I’m sure that I’ve mentioned it before, but I commute to and from work with a group of people. Lots of chats happen on the van, like the one where we were dreaming of winning the lottery, which was followed by how people lost permanent teeth while playing hockey and being teenagers. Some conversations are […]
The Cost of Living in Winter – Heating and Such
Last time, I ran through some of the costs of living in winter, on the clothing front. Today we’re going to look at the cost of living in winter for heating and such. You can layer yourself up in clothes, that is definitely one option, but nice thick sweaters do not keep your pipes from […]
How to Do Housework More Efficiently
Scrubbing toilets, vacuuming floors, sorting through the pile of mail, these are all chores. Sometimes, I don’t mind chores. Most of the time, I hate them and they always seem to be outstanding, never completely done. I’ve heard about people swapping houses with a friend, in order to clean. Doesn’t that sound weird? On the […]
Never Lock Yourself Out Again With This Easy Solution
I live in a condo building. All of the front doors in the building are auto-locking. That seems like kind of a handy feature, especially in a town where half the residents never lock their houses, you’d think that we’d be off to the races. That’s all fine and dandy, until you pop down the […]
Things to ask a Potential Tenant
Last week we looked at Things to ask a Landlord, from the point of view of the tenant. If you are a landlord, go take a look and offer up that sort of information. As a landlord, if you do not know the answers to some of them, find out. You could be missing key […]
Things to ask a Potential Landlord
These things to ask a potential landlord all hinge on a key fact: you have to have some choice as a tenant. If you are living in London, England, you are probably begging and pleading and brown nosing your potential roommates and your potential landlords, to try to eek your way to the top of […]
How to know when you’re financially ready to buy a home
1. You have done the math between renting versus buying If you are blindly assuming that you are ‘throwing your money away on rent when you could be building equity’ without having done the math of whether or not this is actually true, you could end up as someone who regrets not having done their […]