Prelist Home Inspection: getting an expert to look over your home for evident defects is a great way to get prepared for any potential setbacks. You will know what may be wrong with your house, and can either plan to fix it or price the home accordingly.

Regrade Foundation Maintain Gutters: springtime brings a lot of water to a property. Your house has probably never flooded in 20 years of living there, but it could happen. Spending a couple days filling low spots in your foundation and fixing the rain gutters is a lot less stress than dealing with a flooded basement on the day of an open house or final walkthrough. Water in a basement is usually a dealbreaker for people.

Box Up Family Keepsakes, Photos, Cultural & Religious Icons: put away personal items. This must be done to make the property appealing to as many people as possible. It may be hard to hear, but your culture, beliefs and family choices may be offensive to some. There is no need to let that impact the value of your home.

5 tips for moving over the holidays coming at you!

If Canada continues this trend until 2030, we would need over two million additional housing units. It seems like this trend will continue, because the federal government sees it as a solution to Canada’s aging population and lowering birth rates. To keep the economy going, Canada needs more young workers. The only place we can get young workers is from abroad. That is the theory at least.

Whether you agree or disagree with that strategy, it has resulted in lowering taxes on new rental builds. This change comes at a time when the marketplace needs more units. Why not take advantage of these market conditions?