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2011
A couple of nights ago, I was out for dinner with my girlfriends, and though the evening felt like a group hug for my soul, I also learned some important lessons about my business. 1. "I was afraid to ask you to help me find a home because I know you're so busy and I didn't want to burden you." W...
01/28/2011
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I have a love/hate relationship with January. I love the feeling of renewal and fresh beginnings that comes with the first month of the year. But by the last week of this torturous, outrageously long, cold, dark, icy month, I'VE HAD IT! And so it was that last night I dragged my sorry, grumpy s...
01/27/2011
"All the home staging in the world won't sell an over-priced home." That's what Nairn Friemann, a great New York home stager, told us during my first day of home staging training back in 2007. I was reminded of those words today as I went out to preview homes for sale here in Montreal's West Is...
01/25/2011
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Do numbers matter? I know some do, like the asking price of comparable properties, the number of bedrooms in a home, the prime interest rate, the number of times you have to try on jeans to find one pair that actually freakin' fits. I'm sorry. Did I say that out loud? [Sigh.] Moving on... ...
01/05/2011
Beauty and the beast? Charles Buell shows a lovely vessel-type sink that he's seen in some of his work as a home inspector extraordinaire and points out one design flaw that may not be so obvious: there is no overflow (a hole at the back or front of the sink) to allow excess water to drain when ...
01/05/2011
