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So, this is a photo from a virtually staged property of a home that we saw last weekend.  And to tell you the truth, im not too fond of vrtually staged photos....well, at least since this week.Virtually staged photos are fake! They're misleading! And maybe there should be some advertising standard when it comes to photos used in real estate.  So, what happened was that i showed this listing ...

So....this is a a real situation that happened with a client last week!   We saw a beautiful home....wrote an offer in multiples, and we retracted our interest.  What we found out that this beautiful home that we loved was renovated without permits.  So heres a copy and paste of an article to help understand risks of buying a property without permits done If you have been looking fo ...

So, lesson learned!  Here's a tip if you're looking to buy or sell a tenanted property: Try to keep a few days seperation between the time frame of when the tenant moves out and possession date.  And its not a tip that solely focuses on tenants, it just there is one extra step that seperates an owner occupied property and a tenanted, and thats the final walk through that  concludes the r ...

Seasonal slowdown brings price stability to Metro Vancouver   As summer winds to a close, higher borrowing costs have begun to permeate the Metro Vancouver housing market in predictable ways, with price gains cooling and sales slowing along the typical seasonal pattern. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that residential home sales in the region totalled 2,296 i ...