Staging & Selling Montreal West Island Homes

Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with Christmas, nor the New Year, nor Sunday. It has everything to do with: 1. Being in Key West last year on vacation with Mr. Man; and 2. Mr. Man finding this picture on the computer yesterday and saying, "Hey, you should blog about this." Yes, he actually sa...

"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." These words come from Jim Rohn, a motivational speaker who recently passed away. He was just commemorated in a col...

From the mouths of babes (my 11-year-old) came this phrase: E-mail is too slow. Who cares, Tanya. Well, I mention this because his words represent the next generation and their expectations.  Do we, in real estate, understand that even e-mail is now considered too slow for this generation? The co...

According to one of our clients, sometimes decluttering and decorating can change a person's life.  This post is the follow-up to yesterday's post where I introduced you to a client who needed some help decluttering and decorating his Montreal condo.  Yesterday I showed you the living room and di...

Sometimes, decluttering and decorating can change a person's life. Sounds kitschy, but that's what they tell us. And for any of us who have gone through the monumental task of decluttering our own homes and then pulling things together in a way that makes us happy, we know it's true. Last spring,...

To my fellow Canucks out there in the Rain, I have a big question for you: Does Active Rain bring you business?  I'm asking because I've started to focus more of my already-limited time and attention on blogging, both to generate business and to share my thoughts and ideas and simply express myse...

The Diary of a Snow Shoveler December 86:00 PM. It started to snow. The first snow of the season, and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds ag...

If you're looking for a home or, like me, helping someone look for a home, you know that this is an awesome responsibility. The Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary defines awesome as: inspiring awe or expressive of awe.  Awe is then defined as: an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and...

Preparing for an open house is never easy, least of all when you've got munchkins running around "fixing" the way you've arranged the accent pillows on your living room couch, or making a "nice play-doh sculpture" on the kitchen table while you're frantically trying to clear away the lunch dishes...